Fungible: A treatise on fungibility, or, a framework for understanding the mess the news industry is in and the opportunities that lie ahead.
The younger the person you ask, the less likely it is you’ll find that link between wanting to know what’s going on and grabbing a paper or opening up a news website. They use Pinterest to figure out what’s fashionable and Facebook to see if there’s anything fun going on next weekend. They use Facebook just the same to figure out whether there’s anything they need to be upset about and need to protest against.
posted by shakespeherian
on May 11, 2012 -
25 comments
"You know how annoying it is when you're sitting on the train with a magazine and the person sitting beside you starts reading over your shoulder? Welcome to every single moment of your future. Might as well get used to it. It's an experience we'll all be sharing." --
Charlie Brooker on sharing, and why the world is doomed
posted by bardic
on Jan 29, 2012 -
101 comments
Storify is a new social media platform that makes it easy to assemble and winnow Flickr photos, tweets, Facebook posts, Google search results and URLS into a coherent story. It went into
public beta on April 25th.
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posted by msalt
on Apr 28, 2011 -
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bloom.io develops "pop-cultural instruments for data expression":
Fizz takes your Facebook or Twitter connections and shows growth and changes to your social ecosystem.
Cartagram places geo-located photos from Instagram on the surface of the planet.
Newsmap (Flash required) draws Google News sources from different countries and visually treemaps them. The developer of Newsmap,
Marcos Weskamp, also wrote the
Etsy geolocator and
Flipboard, a personalised social magazine for iPad.
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posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul
on Mar 27, 2011 -
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The Viral Me - GQ article on some of the newer social media stuff coming down the pike by Devin Friedman who asks:
What is the endgame of your revolution? And can you promise me it won't suck?
A more general thesis about the basic disappointment of the Internet: It ultimately evolves only where it meets human desire, which itself is geared for life circa 200 b.c. If the Internet ultimately disappoints, it's because it was made for humans. Give us instant connection to everyone and the ability to collaborate in vast seamless networks and we spend 99 percent of those resources telling everyone what kind of oatmeal we ate for breakfast and 1 percent of it building Wikipedia.
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posted by marble
on Jan 28, 2011 -
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1980s sitcom actor
Scott Baio (who considers himself a '
Conservative' and a
Constitutionalist'), along with his wife, has
sparked an awkward battle with the website Jezebel. "Earlier this month, Mr. Charles in Charge released unto the interwebs a
right-leaning tweet about finishing his taxes. Amused, the good ladies over at Jezebel included his missive in their
daily roundup of ridiculous things celebrities say (in 140 characters or less). So far, so good, right? Wrong. You see, Jezebel did not include all the
self-serving positive messages Baio sent out, and that, it appears, caused an irreparable rift in the Facebook-Twitter continuum.
Enter wife Renee Baio..."
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posted by ericb
on Apr 21, 2010 -
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