What the Fuck is Wrong with People?
I received a curious comment today on an old post I wrote last year:
Just so that no other semi-professional media types make the same mistake that Linux Insider did, this article is A *joke*. A *spoof*. A *parody*. Second Life has lots of weapons, but they can’t be used to “kill” other residents except in consensual combat zones, and death is very temporary. Second Life is also divided into a Teen Grid for kids from 13 to 17. and the main grid, for people 18 and up. So “Rebecca-Anne” couldn’t have been in SL at all, and “Timothy” would have been on the Teen Grid, where the two adults would not have been able to go.
P&G Marketer Questions Social Media Scientology, Asks “Is Social Media Really Media?”
Ted McConnell is general manager of interactive marketing and innovation at Procter & Gamble and he has a simple question for social media folks: “What in heaven’s name made you think you could monetize the real estate in which somebody is breaking up with their girlfriend?”
Telling the audience at a talk hosted by Cincinnati’s Digital Hub Initiative that he “really [doesn’t] want to buy any more banner ads on Facebook,” McConnell provided some interesting perspectives that all social media proponents might want to mull over.
One of those perspectives might be considered heresy; McConnell essentially asked if social media is even media at all:
Checking in on Social Stock Pickers
With today’s 427 point drop in the Dow Jones basically putting us in perfect position for a retest of the October 10 intraday low, I thought it’d be a fitting time to look at how some of my favorite “social stock pickers” are doing.
Starting off with Cake Financial’s Cakedex, which is an index of the selections of its “top” members, we see that the innovative concept of social stock picking is a great way to lose money. The Cakedex is down nearly 22% so far this month. That follows declines of approximately 19%, 18%, .15%, 8% and 10% over the previous 5 months. Apparently, social investing is a lot like socialism: what wealth you have is spread around quite well.
Scoble Demonstrates that His Book, Naked Conversations, is Pure Bullshit
I decided I needed some material for a post last night and headed over to Scobleizer because Robert Scoble never disappoints. I hadn’t visited his blog in a couple of weeks and apparently I’ve missed a lot - Scoble has a little reader backlash on his hands.
The cause? Politics.
His pointless diatribe about not being an American is apparently the latest in a line of political rants that he has recently posted.
Social Media in the Inc. 500 - Promotional Bullshit Masquerading as Research
It’s getting awfully difficult to find real “research” these days. As I seem to be pointing out on an increasingly regular basis, “studies” being published around topics such as social media are almost transparently biased by the interests of the people conducting the studies or the studies’ sponsors.
To be sure, bias in research is nothing new. Unfortunately, it seems that the ability to hold bias in check has been all but lost and much of the “research” being published around “social media” is little more than promotional bullshit masquerading as research.
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