Media, Politics, Technology, Zombies
In 2007 and 2008, during the emergence of social media, I covered the presidential campaign for the Talk Radio News Service. Tomorrow I depart for a few weeks on the road covering the 2012 campaign. Some of my time - particularly early in the primary process – will be spent creating content independently for the [...]
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…My inner worrywart wonders whether the new technologies overtaking us may be eroding characteristics that are essentially human: our ability to reflect, our pursuit of meaning, genuine empathy, a sense of community connected by something deeper than snark or political affinity.
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This is a serious question. Pre-social media/Tumblr/Twitter/Facebook/et al – how did you spend your time? On what did you burn your creative energy?
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Howard Stern – @Biz Stone on Howard Stern Twitter co-founder @Biz Stone interviewed yesterday on the Howard Stern show.
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I’m at Disruptive Pivoting and Viral Synergies (New York, NY) “OMG I’m full of teh socialz! And mediaz! And hyper-local check-inz!” Follow me on Gowalla
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/via @mashable">/via @creepysleepy:Politicians are brands. Like their counterparts in the private sector, we’ve seen some pretty interesting things when it comes to using social media on the campaign trail. Representative democracy seems the perfect place for social media — a direct communications channel between the governed and the government. But are we headed toward a more interconnected body politic, or a new sea of unmanageable political noise? With the U.S. midterm elections in their final throes, we spoke to some key players for their views on what the rise of mainstream social media has in store for the next generation of political campaigns…Keep Reading on Mashable
/via @mashablePoliticians are brands. Like their counterparts in the private sector, we’ve seen some pretty interesting things when it comes to using social media on the campaign trail. Representative democracy seems the perfect place for social media — a direct communications channel between the governed and the government. But are we headed toward a more interconnected body politic, or a new sea of unmanageable political noise? With the U.S. midterm elections in their final throes, we spoke to some key players for their views on what the rise of mainstream social media has in store for the next generation of political campaigns…Keep Reading on Mashable
http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt.swf An interesting conversation via @abcnewsradio on North Korea’s identity crisis when it comes to emerging technologies and social media. From @ABC News: The Conversation: Social Media and North Korea Vice founder Shane Smith and Stephanie Sy on North Korea’s social media push.
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http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt.swf An interesting conversation via @abcnewsradio on North Korea’s identity crisis when it comes to emerging technologies and social media. From @ABC News: The Conversation: Social Media and North Korea Vice founder Shane Smith and Stephanie Sy on North Korea’s social media push.
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Dan Patterson – Social Media FAIL? Social Media Fail – The Audience (not the Medium) is the Message In a post entitled ‘Buzz Kill’ Leo Laporte of TWiT recently blogged about the ‘failure’ of Google Buzz and Twitter. He states: “Last night I noticed that my Buzzes were no longer showing up on Twitter (I use a [...]
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