social media

Authenticity, Authorship, and Authority in Social Media

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Last week I attended the MESH conference for the second consecutive year and once again the issue arose around evaluating the use of social media technology by a commercial enterprise. To varying degrees it came up in three consecutive sessions, the most electric of which was a mosh pit with a panel of representatives from […]

Save My Authenticity!

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

A curious bit of personal history came to mind after I read Rachel Clarke’s blog post about an online game (SaveMyHusband.com) which is based on a fake kidnapping. Rachel picked up on my ‘We Were Framed’ post in which I explain how we use ‘frames’ to distinguish the real from the fake. She also summarized […]

The Magic of Community Experience

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Does technology have to be highly advanced in order to feel like magic?
An example of a very simple technology that produced a very powerful ‘magical’ experience came to mind last week while I was participating in a podcast at the Mesh 2007 conference. Jeff Parks arranged the podcast and invited a number of experts […]

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