From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Twitter is just pointless babble and Facebook ruins your friendships – our lives reflected in Social Media

August 31, 2009

Image via CrunchBase To Continue the discussion and Ideas that developed in my post from 2 days ago about ‘Facebook as the Freindship killer app’, I just read Danah Boyd’s post about Twitter as an aggregator of ‘pointless babble’. The marvelous Boyd makes the point that sites such as Twitter and Facebook are our online [...]

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Social Media: the friendship killer app

August 30, 2009

Image by Intersection Consulting via Flickr @econwriter5 has shared a great article today on Twitter: WSJ‘s ‘How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships’. This article has been on my mind all day. Media Panics have been a natural part of Media and Culture evolution: Waltz will curropt the youth, Radio will degregade our values, TV will [...]

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4 things to learn from Jeremiah Owyang

August 27, 2009

Image by thekenyeung via Flickr Jeremiah Owyang, a leading Forrester analyst who has build himself a solid name in the Social Media world, is leaving Forrester to focus on a business of his own. In ‘the year of Social Media’ where social media value is widely recognized and everyone is a Social Media enthusiast, building [...]

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Execute command: Forget My Network Activity

August 16, 2009

Image by Johannesen via Flickr Wired has a great article (that wasn’t formally pushlished online yet) in this month’s issue from Clive Thompson, talking about maintaining your privacy and allowing social networks to ‘forget’ your activity on the network. “What happens in Vegas stays in… Twitter, Flicker, Digg, Facebook, YouTube, etc” is one of the [...]

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Healthier by 2010 – and I ran, I ran so far away…

August 11, 2009

I started running 13 years ago.  I don’t remember what led me to do that, I  think I wanted to lose weight and that was the cheapest, most accessible sports to access, independent of gym fees or specific time of day.  Living in Tel Aviv, my students flat was right by the sea, so going [...]

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