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Re: We Are Social at Interesting 2009

Chris Applegate — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:48:27 -0000

Oops, there was a missing 'and' in the first sentence, now fixed. Thanks for spotting!

Re: I’m invisible

Chris Applegate — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:46:16 -0000

Test comment here.

Re: Commentariat v. bloggertariat

Chris Applegate — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:15:45 -0000

Hi everyone - thanks for your comments, sorry for the late delay in replying (I was away at the Glastonbury festival and offline...) What Phil says about traditional media outlets doing both traditional news and blogging is very much on the mark. I think journalists should blog more - and by blog I don't mean just "have something in blog format", but blog as a practice - link out & quote other blogs, respond to their readers, work in the near-realtime of the blogosphere.

I also agree with sam on the point on it being hard to find good blogs - to some extent, the link economy of blogging works - the better the blog, the more links - but the internet's systemic bias to high-tech and breaking news/gossip can distort this. No-one has yet really cracked how to better navigate the long(ish) tail - Technorati was a good start but hasn't really progressed much in the past few years (a lifetime in online time)

Re: Looping the loop in social media

Chris Applegate — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:09:01 -0000

Thanks for your comments - though I wouldn't describe the change in circumstances a 'crisis' - it was just a situation that needed the record to be set straight. Perhaps five years ago it would have been a crisis, but social media's capability means they needn't be considered crises now - though you still have to think on your feet.

Re: Innovation and Networks of Influence

Chris Applegate — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:30:53 -0000

Joe - your mention of Chinese Whispers is quite apt, as one of the games played was basically that, except it was gestures we had replicate, not words. Two of the three gestures got altered, but the most memorable and pervasive (a slap on one's own bottom) stayed throughout. It was even possible that the two that got altered - they became kissing gestures - did so to fit in with the bottom-slapping. Not sure how much you can draw from one example but whether the more plastic aspects of a message get bent to align with the more concrete ones could be an interesting line of enquiry.

Re: First they ignore you…

Chris Applegate — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:15:03 -0000

Thanks for all your comments. For the record I don't think newspapers will die out completely - there will always be demand for high-quality investigative journalism - although more of that may move to online-only and be "crowdsourced" in future; and tabloid fodder such as sports reporting might have a future too. But celebrity news, horoscopes, diet tips, comment - these can all be found online, and so this middle ground might be cut out.

As for "tipping point" - my understanding is that it's the trigger for mass adoption, not mass adoption itself. With Twitter getting coverage in all the papers and with Jonathan Ross hinting he might feature Twitter on his TV show when it returns, I feel we're about there now. And Twitter will never be as popular as Facebook - it does one thing, short communication, very well - while Facebook does events, photos, applications and more to varying degrees of success.

Finally - David, your points on mobile are good ones. One of the reasons I suspect telcos in the UK have made it prohibitively expensive for Twitter to send texts to people is become the text alerts service for news, sports results, financial information etc. is quite lucrative and a Twitter alternative would decimate the market overnight. Until that is resolved that may be the one thing that hamstrings Twitter and stops it from going mass-market in the UK.