Highlights, lowlights, links, and memos to social media scholars and consultants, from the Icon Index Symbol Twitter stream:
Social media academics and consultants may emphasize “disruption.” Amazon, on the other hand, has a business to run http://is.gd/c0hLEU
To: “new media is magic” academics | RT @seanmcarroll: Public ranks “blogs” as less trustworthy than “banks”&”fed govt” http://goo.gl/cpfCm
Kind of interesting as social media inside baseball | SRT @HuffPostTravel: Gowalla reinvents itself for travel http://is.gd/Ea85Qp
No picbadges? | RT @noahchestnut: Why do advocacy ads, e.g. the SEIU ad that just aired, always feel dated by at least a decade?
RT @evgenymorozov: Social media shaped Arab Spring agenda – and created ‘slacktivist’ illusions? http://flpbd.it/FU5e
Hey, anyone know what color I’m supposed to make my avatar to protest Irene?
When do we get Arab Spring’s Klout score? | RT @evgenymorozov: Tech That Took Out Gadhafi http://is.gd/shsplc no mention of FourSquare?
To create magical utopian social change? No? | MT @pewinternet: Two new reports soon: Tmrw morning update of social networking site use…
Audience analysis of MSM Twitter accounts. Tons and tons of data. More data than you’ll know what to do with. http://is.gd/9vvubG
Social media is magic | RT @jpodhoretz: Chair of dept at City College in NY thinks height of serious protest is hashtag F— you Washington
Domino’s Pizza email: “Hundreds of Facebook Fans Can’t Be Wrong”… Umm… I don’t think that’s necessarily accurate.
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