My recommendations for the past week include:
- Paul Graham on why he thinks social media has contributed to the death of TV. He makes some good points on the social nature of TV, but I disagree that synchronicity will fade away. TV will continue to prompt watercooler chat around shared experiences. If the watercooler is the workplace, then a show only needs to be viewed the previous evening – not necessarily at the same time. But if the watercooler is Facebook or Twitter, then synchronicity and real-time feedback still matter.
- Penelope Truck thinks we shouldn’t look to grad school as a way of mitigating the effects of the recession
- Adrian Ho looks at the role culture plays in companies and self-organised groups
- Farhad Manjoo doesn’t see Twitter killing Google nor Facebook
- Al Ries writes that consumers only love brands once they know them. In a competitive market, familiarity can be a barrier to switching
- Jeremiah Owyang proposes that companies should look to the social web for opt-in consumer information, which would remove the need for registration forms
- Tom Ewing explores the differences in rating music and films, and wonders what effects this has on accumulator sites such as Metacritic
- A recent study suggests that leaders emerge by talking first and often, but not necessarily making the best points
- And I’ve been adding some great Slideshare presentations to my favourites
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