MetaFilter posts tagged with newmedia and socialmedia

Just In Time For The Equinox

The Whelk — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:47:07 -0800

About a week ago a series of tweets began to appear promoting a new TEDx conference taking place with all the normal social media bluster and back-patting - but was it? The event's isolated location should've set off warning bells (previously) when the tweets from "TedxSummerisle" because increasingly worrisome as the conference tumblr began posting videos with titles like "Our Friends the Bees, and Nanotech" and "The Secret Science of the Ancients". (via)

Butt Paper

The Whelk — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:50:11 -0800

Nickstarter - Nick asks you to fund a project, his continued existence.

Why the Web isn't an Echo Chamber

mccarty.tim — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 07:54:03 -0800

It's sometimes argued that people use the internet as an "echo chamber" to reinforce their own views. Scientific American magazine blog editor Bora Zivkovic argues that the web breaks echo chambers in a way unlike offline communities and traditional media.

J-School Confidential

reenum — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:54:26 -0800

An oldie, but a goodie: Michael Lewis goes to Columbia's School of Journalism to see what such schools actually do to prepare their students.

The Conversation Prism

greenish — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:59:57 -0800

The Conversation Prism "gives you a whole view of the social media universe, categorized and also organized by how people use each network." Wot no metafilter? Still, an interesting representation though, I was surprised by how many I'd never heard of. if it IS there, don't tell me. I need new glasses at the moment, ok?

User-driven discontent

Rhaomi — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:38:07 -0800

Yesterday morning, social news juggernaut Digg.com finally unveiled its much-ballyhooed redesign: Digg 4.0. More than a simple cosmetic makeover, the new edition of the popular link-sharing platform fundamentally alters the underlying mechanics of the site. Not only has emphasis shifted from users to content publishers -- major news sources like CNN and Gawker now have RSS-powered accounts that users must "follow" and which automatically submit new stories -- but the submission process itself has become decentralized and opaque. Whereas all content used to enter public "upcoming" queues, allowing users to browse new content and vote up or down what was in line to be published to the front page, submissions now enter a figurative black box. Users can only view not-yet-popular content if it's been submitted or upvoted by friends or published by selected media sources, and this mixture of personalized content has now replaced the site's vaunted front page. Unsurprisingly, this has led to an outcry among Digg's userbase, who lament the reduction in user participation, the perceived selling out of niche content providers in favor of mainstream media, and the ransacking of the site's archives (example), in addition to a rash of bugs and slowdowns, a sharp curtailment in the site's feature set, and an assortment of other problems. But while previous transgressions by the site's staff such as the controversial 2007 censorship of the HD-DVD encryption key (previously) resulted in prompt backtracking and humble apologies, it's looking like CEO Kevin Rose and company are standing by the redesign. Will this bold move lead to a revitalization of Digg's slowly declining traffic and a sea change in how news is shared on the web? Or does the ongoing exodus of longtime users to Reddit and other rivals signal the demise of a site trying too hard to ape Twitter and Facebook?