Re: [NetBehaviour] The Unsociable, Radically-Individualist Soul of Social Media
see also: Towards a radical antisocial art http://www.nictoglobe.com/new/articles/taraa.html not exactly well formulated but nevertheless ... A. Andreas On May 29, 2009, at 12:36 AM, james morris wrote: from enterprise2blog.com I had a big insight today: the word “social” in the term “social media” represents the ultimate in misleading advertising, and is responsible for many failures and a lot of disenchantment, especially within the enterprise. The adjective attracts exactly the sort of people most likely to fail at doing anything valuable with the technology. The sort of extroverted, harmony-seeking, consensus-driven collectivists who think it is all about the group, cutting big-ego prima donnas down to size, and building Brave New Egalitarian Communities that enshrine social justice values. It also explains why thoroughly introverted, unsociable, egoistic and ornery individualists (I am one; among my nicknames in college was “hermit”) take to the medium like ducks to water. more: http://enterprise2blog.com/2009/02/the-unsociable-radically- individualist-soul-of-social-media/ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Andreas Jacobs e: aj...@xs4all.nl w: http://www.nictoglobe.com ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] The Unsociable, Radically-Individualist Soul of Social Media
Incidently, the author of the article I posted, Venkatesh Rao, has some good articles on his blog: http://www.ribbonfarm.com and that's despite his subject primarily being business focused. lots of talk about the cloud, philosophy about money etc. and numerous links to interesting articles such as a bill to change the value of PI! http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/805/did-a-state-legislature-once-pass-a-law-saying-pi-equals-3 james. On 29/5/2009, Andreas Jacobs aj...@xs4all.nl wrote: see also: Towards a radical antisocial art http://www.nictoglobe.com/new/articles/taraa.html not exactly well formulated but nevertheless ... A. Andreas On May 29, 2009, at 12:36 AM, james morris wrote: from enterprise2blog.com I had a big insight today: the word social in the term social media represents the ultimate in misleading advertising, and is responsible for many failures and a lot of disenchantment, especially within the enterprise. The adjective attracts exactly the sort of people most likely to fail at doing anything valuable with the technology. The sort of extroverted, harmony-seeking, consensus-driven collectivists who think it is all about the group, cutting big-ego prima donnas down to size, and building Brave New Egalitarian Communities that enshrine social justice values. It also explains why thoroughly introverted, unsociable, egoistic and ornery individualists (I am one; among my nicknames in college was hermit) take to the medium like ducks to water. more: http://enterprise2blog.com/2009/02/the-unsociable-radically- individualist-soul-of-social-media/ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Andreas Jacobs e: aj...@xs4all.nl w: http://www.nictoglobe.com ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] The Unsociable, Radically-Individualist Soul of Social Media
from enterprise2blog.com I had a big insight today: the word social in the term social media represents the ultimate in misleading advertising, and is responsible for many failures and a lot of disenchantment, especially within the enterprise. The adjective attracts exactly the sort of people most likely to fail at doing anything valuable with the technology. The sort of extroverted, harmony-seeking, consensus-driven collectivists who think it is all about the group, cutting big-ego prima donnas down to size, and building Brave New Egalitarian Communities that enshrine social justice values. It also explains why thoroughly introverted, unsociable, egoistic and ornery individualists (I am one; among my nicknames in college was hermit) take to the medium like ducks to water. more: http://enterprise2blog.com/2009/02/the-unsociable-radically-individualist-soul-of-social-media/ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
