- Recent
- Popular
- Tags (0)
- Subscribers (2)
- What is Social Media? A not so critical review of concepts and definitionsNovember 14
-
In 1952 Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn published their seminal work “Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions”. They provided a systematic overview of 164 definitions of this anthropological key concept. I did not find as much definitions of social media and furthermore the differences between definitions social media are far smaller than the differences between different concepts of culture.
This is a quick overview of the first 141623 definitions of social media by the following people:
- Ben Parr: “… the use of electronic and Internet tools for the purpose of sharing and discussing information and experiences with other human beings in more efficient ways”
- Anthony Mayfield: “… a group of new kinds of online media, which share most or all of the following characteristics: 1) Participation … 2) Openness … 3) Conversation … 4) Community … 5) Connectedness”
- Robert Sco
- Obama and the global webNovember 11
-
Global web? Sounds like redundancy, but in fact many phenomena on the world wide web aren’t so global at all. Although non-western languages are of rising importance online, English still is the most spoken language on the web. And so it should be clear that Barack Obama’s election is mostly an American or perhaps Western affair.
But this is not the case. If you take a look at Google search for “Obama” in the last 30 days, the USA only rank fourth on the list of countries searching for the president-elect:
- Ethiopia
- Kenya
- Cameroon
- Uganda
- United States
- Senegal
- Benin
- Ghana
- Nigeria
- Cuba
Is this a language issue - Obama perhaps being a very common name or word in those countries - or is this really a sign for the emergence of a more globalized internet? Is it about Obama or obama? There is some evidence for the second explanation: 1) the search volume clearly peaks on 5 November, the day a - Whalewatching - Fail whale sightings from June to OctoberOctober 4
-
After I saw the fail whale on Twitter again after a long whale-free period, I thought it was time to actualize my timeline of whale sightings. The first fail whale had been spotted last June. And after five months this meme is still going strong.
Some users feared that they would not be able to see the fail whale after Twitter announced having solved a lot of their uptime issues - but as you see in this chart, there have been whale sightings all through September.
The latest spike had been the Twitter redesign on 20 September which got the Twitterati puzzling whether their favorite cetacean had also been given a face-lift. Rest assured - this had not been the case.
- Twittering the OktoberfestOctober 2
-
No time to go to the Oktoberfest in Munich? Well, I just finished a small Twitter aggregator that allows to read what your fellow Twitterati are reporting from the world’s largest fair. And, this has been quite a surprise for me, there always is at least one person around twittering from the Wiesn.
Prost! - Financial crisis still doesn’t pass the bacon testSeptember 26
-
What is it that is really interesting for the Google population? The financial crisis? No, that’s what the media is interested in. People searching Google really are looking for cupcakes, sex toys and wizards. At least, that’s what Jonathan Stein found out when he compared the different search terms with Google Trends.
In the meanwhile the financial crisis has gathered a lot more search engine buzz as you can see in the following graph. But it still has not reached the level of buzz that bacon has.
When will this topic pass the bacon test?
[via]