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Comment on U.S. Army guide to Pinterest by Jon Lebkowsky

Jon Lebkowsky — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:50:07 +0000

Thanks! Glad you found your way here.

In social media, I find that high adoption of a platform drives more adoption of the platform. I’ve been thinking how Pinterest differs from Flickr, the seminal platform for social sharing of images, and Facebook, which includes images as part of a larger framework for sharing. Part of the difference is a difference in demographics (http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/social-networks/pinterest-demographic-data/) – more women, more mainstream.

Comment on U.S. Army guide to Pinterest by Ellie Kesselman

Ellie Kesselman — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:39:45 +0000

This is hilarious! I had no idea the U.S. Army was this umm… au courante with social media They were on Pinterest back in early February!

I find it so incongruous to see the CME Group and General Electric’s turbine manufacturing division, whatever the name is, on Pinterest. But it does work for some companies e.g. IBM Research (mostly middle-aged men with PhD’s from Zurich) somehow runs three of four great Pinterest boards, so I guess one never knows.

Similar incongruity is a facet of Twitter, so I should have known to expect it with Pinterest. Some corporate and government agencies choose wisely when deciding who (and how) they want company Twitter accounts run. It varies within organizations, I’ve noticed that IBM Mexico is great, very engaged, replies in Spanish or English, has unique content from the dozens of other mostly drab IBM Twitter accounts. Google Research, and (of all organizations!) The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank were very congenial and responsive, although both have cut back a lot from a year ago. It is fun to see who adapts well to social media! There are many surprises.

Thank you so much for posting this Slideshare deck. I found my way here circuitously, via SEO King, Danny Sullivan’s review of the new (seemingly more semantically flavored) Google search, then to my account on Freebase, and a list of mostly awful or moribund blogs compiled (by some pre-Google acquisition of Metaweb user) in 2005 or so. Among them was the elderly “Crufty Bits”, or similar. It listed Weblogsky in the sidebar, so I am very fortunate to have found you!

Comment on Iron Sky by Lold

Lold — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:32:18 +0000

Is the film any good thouhg… we’ll I found these reviews, and people have not liked it too much?

http://www.reddit.com/r/FilmReview/comments/qn8xf/iron_sky_reviews/

Comment on AR glasses coming from Google by Introduction – The Shape of AR - RealityAugmented

Introduction – The Shape of AR - RealityAugmented — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:01:06 +0000

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Comment on Resilient Communities by Jon Lebkowsky

Jon Lebkowsky — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:35:26 +0000

Not 100% sure. It has been posted at a Ning community site: http://resilientcc.ning.com/. The site’s no longer active, so I couldn’t see who owned it, or who had come up with the chart. I searched in vain for an author. I think it’s a good conceptual overview.

Comment on Resilient Communities by John Robb

John Robb — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:25:01 +0000

Jon,

Thanks much. Question: who put the chart together?

Comment on Bruce Springsteen is angry by Kenny

Kenny — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:11:03 +0000

Great article and sentiment on the part of Springsteen. Thanks for the notice and link!

Comment on Gothic High Tech by Gamecentral247

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Comment on Thinking about the future of online marketing by 07 | Groundwork | The Web as a Medium: Four Observations | mediamachina

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:10:50 +0000

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Comment on Multiverses, dark matter, infinity: Occupy Reality by Ted Newcomb

Ted Newcomb — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:20:21 +0000

Just “Dust in the Wind” Jon. Cosmic dust tho!

Comment on The truth about OWS by "We hear that OWS has no clear message, but is it precisely because the dis-organization… | scot hacker's foobar blog

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:30:47 +0000

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Comment on The truth about OWS by jonl

jonl — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:14:59 +0000

Thanks for pointing out that oversight, Scot. I’ve added the link. I’ve also updated with a link to an Alternet piece that forcefully questions Wolf’s suggestion that there’s been an effort coordinated at the Federal level to take Occupy down.

Link to Wolf’s original piece: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy

Link to the Alternet response by Joshua Holland: http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/153222/naomi_wolf%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%98shocking_truth%E2%80%99_about_the_%E2%80%98occupy_crackdowns%E2%80%99_offers_anything_but_the_truth/

Comment on The truth about OWS by Scot Hacker

Scot Hacker — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:18:25 +0000

Jon, do you have a link to the Guardian piece? Thanks.

Comment on Thinking about memory, association, and identification by Taran Rampersad

Taran Rampersad — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:22:03 +0000

I’m a bit rusty on my Buddhist philosophy, but I do recall the ‘mind-in-present’ aspect. And that fits with the attention. Often when I forget things – and as the years woosh by I am noticing it a bit more often – it’s because my mind isn’t in the now.

It doesn’t help that my now is usually hours, days or years in the future. :-)