The movie trailer Early reviews are enthusiastic about film depicting early years of Facebook For those of us who live and work in the world of social media, Silicon Valley and technology, today’s opening of the movie The Social Network is a big deal. A close friend visited Facebook‘s headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., […]
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Here comes Clay Shirky’s ‘Cognitive Surplus’
Where did the summer go? I spent a good chunk of my idle time (ha!) sneaking a few minutes here and there not to read beach blanket escapist thrillers but rather some important books that five of my friends have written.
Here, then, are short reviews of:
• Clay Shirky’s “Cognitive Surplus”
Social media now firmly entrenched in our lives
Top 10 Sectors by Share of U.S. Internet Time RANK Category Share of Time June 2010 Share of Time June 2009 % Change in Share of Time 1 Social Networks 22.7% 15.8% 43% 2 Online Games 10.2% 9.3% 10% 3 E-mail 8.3% 11.5% -28% 4 Portals 4.4% 5.5% -19% 5 Instant Messaging 4.0% 4.7% -15% […]
Social media: Increasing access to public meetings
Social media increases accessibility to public meetings from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I‘m at NewComm Forum this week, probably the best gathering of minds around social media, marketing and new media anywhere. (I’ll be speaking Friday about the future of journalism.) It’s also a superlative venue for networking. Last year I met Kathleen Clark of […]
RSA 2010: How to protect yourself from social networking malware
I‘m at the 2010 RSA Conference here in San Francisco this week reporting for Tripwire. Before the expo floor opened, I sneaked in (yes, seriously, at the security conference), and got a preview of Sophos’ presentation on protecting yourself from social networking malware. After his preparatory run through, I asked “media tart” (his words, not […]