Ever hung out with Eric Rice? Had a chance to listen to him for a while? Away from the crowds, away from noise. I have and this bit below is classic Eric and it’s why I make sure I read his stuff:
So now, I have to be clever. I have to figure out, in a world where it isn?t newsworthy unless it?s a silly meme about cats, breasts, or rich-white-guy-blogger-du-jour?s-take on social networks, how I can help get this message out. I?m not posting the link to the post, because I can?t yet. I don?t know how to re-blog it so the actual message gets out? because it?s so vital in understanding all of social media at a much deeper level than any individual platform or context.
The original blog?s audience naturally, is the choir, so nothing gained there. It?s all those *others*. That massive yammering tech blogosphere that is more interested in the openAPI than perhaps some richer, deeper, more meaningful insight into consumer behaviors and human interaction. Source: I, Platform ? Blog Archive ? The blog post Valleywag and Techcrunch won?t understand
Let’s dissect this. Eric and I are probably on the same page here. I keep looking at how social networks are changing the dynamics of the society we live in. If you expand your thinking to include IM and e-mail as types of social networks, you’ll come to understand that we have changed so much, so deeply. The question is, then, what is good about it and what is bad.
That’s the unanswered part … that’s the part I’m looking for too.
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