I was using Songkick.com today, to add artist concert tracking to my profile. I noticed the variety of ways the site uses to display related artists you “may also want to track”. This reminded me of two “related” features of web sites: Amazon’s famous related product recommendation engine, and the Facebook social plugin options for [...]
Should the government experiment with social media and web technology? The question I always have is “who does the government report to” ? The naive, pat answer is: “the people”. The problem is that people have to mobilize and centralize their opinions and power, in order to effect this power to change government. The lag time, and [...]
I found this fascinating quote today: Recently, Forrester introduced a new way to consider influence in Social Media. We identified a group of social media participants we call Mass Influencers. While just 16% of the US population, Mass Influencers are responsible for 80% of the influence impressions and posts about products and services in social [...]




