epicdialogue.com » Scott Berkun http://epicdialogue.com/blog richard hamilton: youth worker. blogger. futurist. geek. father. sojourn. community organizer. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:59:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Ouch Scott, That Stings A Little http://epicdialogue.com/blog/2009/07/07/ouch-scott-that-stings-a-little/ http://epicdialogue.com/blog/2009/07/07/ouch-scott-that-stings-a-little/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:11:58 +0000 Richard Hamilton http://epicdialogue.com/blog/?p=553 Came across an article by Scott Berkun (via CollideMagazine.com) berating social media for over-hype and and the proliferation of noise. And it hurt (a little). Scott makes some excellent points and his post is worth reading for anyone invested in social media.

But, for all its woes and shortcomings, there are two things that make today’s social media important. Its interactivity and its real-timeness. Scott acknowledges the first of these, but I believe the real power of this “movement” lies in the freshly broken ground of real time. Twitter has always existed here, but now Facebook has joined them. OneRiot allow us to search in real time. Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and Flickr all have real time Meta searches. Real time makes social media!

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