John Battelle's Searchblog: Microfeed for "Into the Mainstream" http://battellemedia.com/archives/004503.php Comments for the entry "Into the Mainstream" en-us Movable Type v4.24-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:19:47 -08:00 Comment from Jim Vernon It's not clear how well-defined some of these terms are. Does text messaging including instant messaging and/or "chat" via a web browser? How does text break down between phone and web browser? What about a web-enabled phone -- where does that fit? And what counts as social networking? This comment? Hey, I'm tryin' to be social here!

I guess blogging might be the most "clear", although someone asked me several years ago if my web site (which I had established for about 5 years before that) was a blog, and I had trouble answering. I'd have less trouble answering today, because I have both a "portal" site and a "blog" site.

Web 2.0? Gettin' a little tired of that buzzword. But, ok, I get it. I guess. Enough to answer a questionnaire, anyway!

Lastly, I found the end of the article hilarious: "Needless to say, UM found a skyrocketing correlation among people who say they regularly visit social networking sites."

Correlation ... with what? You don't find a correlation among people. You find a correlation between two measurable characteristics (more properly, between the measures or random variables).

]]> 4503@http://battellemedia.com/#c132015 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:19:47 -08:00 Comment from PR Ny So essentially - among young males - this medium is replacing the telephone call or sending postcards or holiday greeting cards.

Women appear to still prefer that personal touch

]]> 4503@http://battellemedia.com/#c132025 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:43:48 -08:00 Comment from tom funk This seems to echo the Zogby poll last fall that reported that "24% of Americans said the Internet could serve as a replacement for a significant other."

Given the way the poll question was posed, it was never clear whether people meant the web itself was serving as a significant other -- or whether they were really thinking about personal communication with real people that just happens to occur across the web.

To me, John's blurb from Mediapost suggests it's the latter (which is at least a little healthier, right?).

Then again, remembering last summer's WSJ piece on the guy's real-life marriage crumbling while his SecondLife marriage was going hot-n-heavy, there are today probably a lot of definitions to what it means to use the social media and web-messaging to communicate with "friends and family." :)

http://463.blogs.com/the_463/2007/10/hi-there-im-the.html
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118670164592393622.html

]]> 4503@http://battellemedia.com/#c132030 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:02:36 -08:00 Comment from nmw Interesting: Also at mediapost is my explanation for why this phenomenon has occurred: http://my.mediapost.com/groups/discussion/id/134

A big part of the reason is that no one has managed to fix email to be reliable enough -- and this is something I mentioned 3 or 4 years ago at a domain conference in Seattle. Since no one has been able to fix the problems with email (I think Esther Dyson's proposals are among the best -- namely: for the recipient of email to be reimbursed for accepting the email), communication is "safer" when it is social in nature (kind of like talking on a public square rather than in a private room).

Incidentally, I find the mediapost platform to be very well designed, but I find that the level of two-way (conversational) "participation" there is quite low (or maybe I just haven't found it yet). Of course "peace and quiet" is sometimes "just what the doctor ordered"....

:) nmw

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]]> 4503@http://battellemedia.com/#c132048 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:46:10 -08:00 Comment from kabin abi olay budur yahu daha iyisini hiç ne gördüm ne duydum ne zaman duydum bilmiyorum.

]]> 4503@http://battellemedia.com/#c132066 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:40:35 -08:00 Comment from Prefabrik Ev Fiyatları ya size hiçbişi demiyorum bu kadar güzelmi olur bir blog ya? on numara kardeşim eline koluna sağlık kardeşim Allah gönlüne göre versin kardeşim : )

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