October 2009
5 posts
The Attention Economy of Social Media →
infoneernet:
zehnuhr:
“We enjoy accumulating followers, seeing ourselves referred to, commented to, and otherwise being made visible. Doesn’t matter whether this involves acknowledgment, recognition, or validation; the point is that the medium does create a kind of social visibility. Call it, for simplicity’s sake, “being paid attention to.”
Well, attention doesn’t correlate with actually...
I'll pay you to be my friend.
creativevictuals:
Interesting approach…but paying for followers seems a bit desperate to me.
From the Cluetrain Manifesto: 95 Theses →
Markets are conversations.
Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors.
Conversations among human beings sound human. They are conducted in a human voice.
Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived.
People recognize each other as such from the sound of this voice.
The...
