“Pope Benedict, white-haired, 85, and a neophyte to social media site Twitter, has beaten out 18-year old heartthrob Justin Bieber to set a percentage record for retweeting by his followers, the Vatican said on Thursday.”
“The real value of these networks is in programming. If you can aggregate effectively, you can start to imagine social media a little bit more like traditional media.”
On a social media meetup, of course.
“Canadian literary icon Margaret Atwood is lending her name to a new online poetry prize – ‘The Attys’ – sponsored by a Toronto-based social media site for budding writers, Wattpad, which claims a community of more than nine million users that includes the Oryx and Crake author herself.”
“For decades, TV writing was a solitary pursuit, the writers alone in a room. Social media has transformed it. The process is now more like playing in a live band, with an audience cheering, booing, and hollering out requests. This is true across the cultural waterfront. As artists in all media go social–from novelists to … Continue reading “In An Online World All Art Is “Live””
“That it should be news that advertisers should follow time-tested principles when advertising in newfangled media highlights how confusing social media has been for many marketers.”
“Imagine a scenario where a publisher is able to cross-reference a reader’s profile on their news site with information gathered through social media profiles and other online behaviors. The product, still in private beta, triangulates all the signals we leave around the Internet to try to create a unified picture. You can see how this … Continue reading “When Publishers Know Everything About You”
Designers are working with artificial intelligence technology to create games that personalize themselves based on players’ social media data – for example, “games [based] on news articles using personal opinions gathered from Twitter users.”
“Symphony orchestras, regional theatres, ballet and opera companies across North America are feeling stiff competition to lure ticket buyers who they believe are increasingly distracted by interactive entertainment and social media. But when those sought-after new audiences do show up, they don’t always behave the way that venerable institutions and veteran audiences expect.”
“Today, social media are hailed for empowering dissidents and undercutting tyrannies around the world. Yet it’s hard not to watch the Google video and agree with Forbes’s Kashmir Hill when she suggests that such a technology could ultimately ‘accelerate the arrival of the persistent and pervasive citizen surveillance state,’ in which everything you see and … Continue reading “Let’s Not Put On These Google Glasses”
