Author: KC

  • That’s apparently what people in our little group have been feeling. I know I certainly have. It is intimidating. You can’t just be a floating user. They expect you to have a page of your own. You can imagine that my profile’s first and mandatory wiki is blank, while the group’s wiki (DictionarydotCOM300) is slowing…

  • This article, “Content Builds Brands Online,” discusses how online branding is different than offline branding and what you can do to run with the big dogs, so to speak. “Whereas offline branding tends to be image and emotion driven, online branding tends to be information and logic driven.” I have summarized the content into these…

  • Buy Our Lemonade… Wait, Someone Set up a Stand! New Media has created a space for the business to flourish or fail depending on their use of online forums and social networking. Flourishing means that you’ve got people on this new technology. And failing means a failure in savvyness. You can’t encourage people to do…

  • “Organization Man: Joe Trippi Reinvents Campaigning” from The New Republic Online by Noem Scheiber (10 November 2003); (2) “The Race of the Web Sites 2004″ from ACM Interactions by Kathy Gill (November-December 2004) http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill/pub/gill_ACM_2004.pdf; As Noem Sheiber describes Joe Trippi, “part campaign insider, part pundit, and part pure bravado” and completely overrated. The article says…

  •  Title: Facebook  URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook  The article describes the history, development, features and some legal battles of the social networking site. On April 30, 2004, the earliest wiki-article of Facebook is written and has had two hundred contributors since. In the age of social networking sites, the sense of disclosure is becoming distorted; I selected this…

  • “September 11th.” (Applaud.) Many questions can be answered with this famous date in United Statesian history. Did technology change on this date? not really. However, it was this happening that demonstrated the changes in the way we respond to events and each other. While traditional media was looping the images of the attack, people on the…

  • (1) Chapter 4 “Markets are Conversations” from The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual by Levine, Locke, Searls & Weinberger (1999, 2001) cluetrain.org;(2) “The Long Tail” from Wired by Chris Anderson (October 2004) wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html Listen up. We are tired of being sold to, tired of being “patrons” and just tired. We want our…

  • The unique union of social media and the news media is going to change the way people relate to news and each other. As the mental landscape of the young generation is molded by their peers and their media, social media will have significant effects on how and what news to which they will be exposed.…