Permalink Submitted by jeff on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 9:46am
My problem with this video (is wikipedia considered social media?) is that it doesn't provide the other side to the story:
"According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled."
Plus elevating the statistics by representing them in video form makes them seem as if they are more verified than they are. For instance the Facebook statistics come from Facebook- not some independent source. Reporting "facts" such as these is not journalism, and so you are left to your own devices to determine what is true and what isn't. Welcome to the social media revolution, where what matters is what is viral, not what is verified by outside sources.
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statistics + music = hype
My problem with this video (is wikipedia considered social media?) is that it doesn't provide the other side to the story:
"According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/fashion/07blogs.html
Plus elevating the statistics by representing them in video form makes them seem as if they are more verified than they are. For instance the Facebook statistics come from Facebook- not some independent source. Reporting "facts" such as these is not journalism, and so you are left to your own devices to determine what is true and what isn't. Welcome to the social media revolution, where what matters is what is viral, not what is verified by outside sources.
For more discussion:
http://socialnomics.net/2009/08/11/statistics-show-social-media-is-bigge...