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Re: In the Trenches and Loving it

Daniel Patricio — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:05:36 -0000

I am in the same boat man, haven't been blogging as much as I would like as I have been busy with a lot of the paying work.

How is the new business coming along?

Re: What’s Good Wednesday!?

Daniel Patricio — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:23:38 -0000

I am definitely there for Fake Blood thursday.

Re: Social Media: Aggregating Uninformed Opinions?

Daniel Patricio — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:47:38 -0000

As great as social media is at spreading the word about good causes, it can be equally if not more effective at spreading sensationalist opinions or even false urban legends.

The painting of an issue with a single brush (in this case green) is not necessarily accurate of fair to the issue.

Politics is inherently biased by a person's history, experiences and past and taking the word of the only isolated voice we are hearing as the truth can be naive.

Though we have a very vocal Tamil community in Toronto, very few people are aware of the scope of the issue and that even our own government considers the Tigers to be terrorists.

I am very concerned that the reason the US is playing such an instrumental role in the social media channels is that it is pro-US/Mousavi.

It is not unreasonable to believe that some Iranians are not in favour of a pro-US government given their history in the region.

The problem I have with social media and politics is that it is far too simple to just add a green overlay or RT something without even reading into the subject at all. I have seen many people retweet articles based on the headline without reading them but when it is support of a complex political issue group think can be misleading.

Are people realistically passing on the message because all of their friends are or because they have researched the issues at hand.

I would love to see the numbers comparing the 'buzz' generated and the actual amount of people reading into the issues.

Re: RIP Encarta, long live Wikipedia

Daniel Patricio — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:55:07 -0000

I really do think Wikipedia is a positive and shining example of the ability of our generate to collaborate and create knowledge.

However so many people from our society especially from the education sector are ignorant of the underlying concepts of open collaboration.

In the recent article in the Star they say we 'rely too-much on wikipedia' - personally I see it as the incapability of the education system to understand the way we communicate and collaborate.

http://www.thestar.com/News...

Re: Make Kick Ass Titles

Daniel Patricio — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:18:27 -0000

The more blogs I read the more important the titles get.

The noise we are exposed to is unprecedented and you only really have a single line to push the message of a post of a couple hundred words.

You really have to put more and more thinking into the titles, especially when you have the 140 character restriction.

Re: Skittles and Twitter

Daniel Patricio — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:21:27 -0000

Not too concerned about the swearing and profanity. Just hoping they didn't dive in headfirst because they thought social media was the thing to do.

They have a lot of buzz to work with for now, lets hope they are smart with it and they can leverage the hype to keep the campaign going for a little more just this flash in the pan.

Re: Skittles and Twitter

Daniel Patricio — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:16:26 -0000

It is quite simply a sad case of hit and run publicity. This isn't viral, it is just so offensive that people can't stop talking about how misguided their efforts are.