Comments on: Social media is about space, not place

By: Thinking the Unthinkable: Clay Shirky may be wrong (slightly) « Richard Stacy @ Stacy Consulting

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:00:43 +0000

[...] basic blog it is too. I might venture to say this illustrates my point that social media is about space rather than place – Shirky doesn’t need a fancy blog (place), all he needs is a launch pad to create and [...]

By: Are social networks just pretty snowflakes? « Richard Stacy @ Stacy Consulting

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:23:11 +0000

[...] Finding interesting patterns of influence within networks looks to be a very, err, interesting. The size of the network and the volume of data within it presents huge opportunities for number crunching and pretty graphics. But I couldn’t escape a nagging suspicion that while this might be interesting, it may not be useful. My starting point with social media is always the idea that it is different. Answers and approaches that work are very rarely conventional. Social media is a black swan – a never seen before type of thing. Up until now we have had individuals and we have had crowds, but now we have a hybrid – a connected crowd. The connected crowd is a very big thing, but you can only communicate with it as though it were a very small thing. Mass, one-to-many messages just don’t go anywhere. It is back to this old idea of mine that influence lies in spaces, not places. [...]

By: Larry Brauner

Larry Brauner — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:48:37 +0000

The old media was about space too. However, the only way to monitor it was through marketing research based on samples.

Today as an increasingly larger proportion of the online space is being crawled and indexed, a new type of space-oriented data is becoming available to researchers creating the possibility of new paradigms.

However, there is still a lot of offline buzz about the online content. Most people who read online content refrain from joining the conversation. The impact of social media on these folk cannot be measured by monitoring the space. Old fashioned survey research may be the only way to monitor them and their offline buzz.

By: Apologies « The social media revolution (in 15 minutes)

Apologies « The social media revolution (in 15 minutes) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:35:02 +0000

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By: Google v Facebook is a battle for today’s internet, not the internet of the future « Richard Stacy @ Stacy Consulting

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:11:43 +0000

[...] They will start to realise that the key to influence in the social media lies in the influence of space not place. This is what will cause the first absolute shrinkage in the amount of advertising revenue [...]

By: Clay Shirky makes my day « Richard Stacy @ Stacy Consulting

Clay Shirky makes my day « Richard Stacy @ Stacy Consulting — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:57:50 +0000

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By: Web Media Daily - Link Edition Wed. June 10, 2009 | Reinventing Yourself...

Web Media Daily - Link Edition Wed. June 10, 2009 | Reinventing Yourself... — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:22:08 +0000

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