DISQUS

I'm going to add another equation here that I learned over my 15+ years of being on the web and involved in political sites.... it's really easy to set up a fake account and post propaganda. If you aren't the owner of the site (and even then with proxies you may not be able to tell) you have no idea if the person you are hearing from is legitimate, real, or spinning a tale to suit an agenda. It happens more than too many in these "new" social media circles recognize.

I am no supporter of either side in Iran but I do know that there's a lot of presumption going on in Twitter land... why? To who's benefit? That's one to study.

Definitely going to try and make it - keep me posted on timing and deets for the 11th.

Mathew,

To be fair, I have no idea who Kara is or what her tweets to you were about as I don't follow her on Twitter. My tweet was a direct response to your asking for feedback after the fact and my sharing my opinion. To conflate the two makes it seem as if I was piling on vs. answering something I thought you wanted to get opinions on.

Tamera

Silly me, I thought the "Letters to the Editor" section was the peons trying to have a conversation/ dialogue with the ivory tower before comments on blogs came into play.

Classic headline Mathew!

I'm not buying it... plan to upgrade to the new BB Bold when it arrives... it suits my purposes to a T and won't break my bank. I love shiny toys, but only when they're useful and fairly priced in the marketplace.

Mathew, the more I think about this the more it takes me back to the character blog debate at the first mesh... perhaps time to revisit with the various viewpoints represented from the business, art, and communications sides? :)

Agree and disagree. Art directors who are pushing the envelope for paid client work could make the argument that they are creating commercial art. Same with this art, if the ultimate goal was to build a client base. Nothing wrong with that, but there are rules of engagement online, and within the norms of a community, and one of the key ones is (and has been for a long-time): opt-in & be transparent. that didn't happen here, therefore the experiment failed with some users and with some people who would prefer not to be deceived in their social interactions, especially when it's then clear that this was done to gain a client base for their content creation business.

I can agree with most of the take regarding it being "art", but with a serious caveat, which is why I reacted as strongly as I did about the proactive and deceptive Facebook friending: Story2oh is a commercial enterprise that I would find it hard to believe didn't develop this project with the sole altruistic purpose of entertaining the masses. Most likely, as their appearance at an advertising industry event, was to execute this story in order to get clients. That may be art, it may not, I think it's interesting and provocative, but in most ARG's (which is what this is a version of) I choose willingly to participate, which was not the case with Ali Barrett (who I did research a bit as both Eden and you mention).

Can't let the PR folks have all the fun on the list... here's mine: http://twitter.com/tamera

You're in good company Mathew, Julia at F-H put together a list of the hottest male PR bloggers in Canada back in November. I'm still not telling who I voted for ;)

http://sophisticatedbohemian.wordpress.com/2006...

I still stick to the original meaning of the term "blog" to define what it is. A blog is a weblog. No comments, or even text required. Just a place you log stuff online.

We may need new definitions though to be more precise as to what each type of "log" represents.

I remember my first St. Pat day back in Toronto when I called my friend back in L.A. and drunkenly announced I was at the Irish Embassy... it was quite an amusing convo.

See you there on the 15th Mathew, and "yes" to talking about all of the above!

Cheers,
Tamera

Blogger is derived from Weblogger.

A WEB LOG. Nothing in there about what you can or cannot log on your site. Photos, words, recipes, links, what have you... nothing in there about who might be interested in your log either.

I'm still trying to get a grasp on why it would be considered plagarism if it is sourced properly... wouldn't it then be copyright infringement?