Category Archives: Social Media

Social Media, media built around the idea of communication with as opposed to at your customers.

TED.com – Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)

Clay Shirky deliv­ers a clear and cogent his­tory and expla­na­tion of PIPA/SOPA, walk­ing through through both the intent and what the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of the bill and how it changes the entire legal sys­tem under which web­sites operate.

January 19, 2012 – 5:38 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Copyright, Culture, Politics, Quick Posts, Social Media, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

The Contactually Blog – E-mail is the Universal Platform

I don’t put much stock in sto­ries that say e-mail is dead for pre­cisely this reason.

January 5, 2012 – 1:55 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Quick Posts, Social Media | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

O’Reilly Radar – The end of social

The more we share the less value each piece of infor­ma­tion has to the peo­ple (but not the sys­tems) that we share to.

December 11, 2011 – 2:13 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Culture, Economics, Quick Posts, Social Media, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Messy Matters – This Post Won’t Go Viral

Per­haps the more inter­est­ing aspect is that most adop­tions occur with­out a peer-to-peer influ­ence or within one step of the orig­i­nal peer.

August 1, 2011 – 10:52 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Quick Posts, Science, Social Media | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

The Filter Bubble – Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee weighs in: “There’s danger in the filter bubble”

For a long time I went back and forth on wor­ry­ing about this and I’ve set­tled on wor­ry­ing about it, I’m just not sure of a solution.

June 19, 2011 – 3:53 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Culture, Quick Posts, Science, Social Media | Comments Off

TechCrunch – Groupon Was “The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A Business Owner”

The more I read about Groupon the more I want this busi­ness to just go away.

June 13, 2011 – 6:09 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, Social Media | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Marco.org – Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive

All true and won­der­fully pointed, thanks Marco.

March 20, 2011 – 7:15 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Design, Quick Posts, Social Media, User Experience | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off