Social Change

Well, not quite. But a site called The Long Tail has compiled some interesting figures : Music: sales last year were down 21% from their peak in 1999 Television: network TV’s audience share has fallen by a third since 1985 Radio: listenership is at a 27-year low Newspapers: circulation peaked in 1987, and the decline is accelerating Magazines: total circulation ...

Lisa "M" at Rhetoric of Me has commented–I think accurately–on the anxiety in the nonprofit sector about embracing blogging and other new Internet-based communication strategies. Indeed, it seems to me that if you fire a shot in any direction in cyberspace you’re going to hit a mess of control issues. Our institutions were set up for stability, not for change. ...

On Community Mobilization I talk more about the WSJ article on hiring managers, university enrollment officers, and maybe even Homeland Security people prying into the social networking sites to draw additional information about candidates for jobs, admission etc.   We forget that what we put into the public space is public and can be searchable alter on by just about anyone.  ...

I read an essay on in New York Times by Christine Rosen called Bad Connections.  (Not sure if everyone will have access to the article–I believe you must have an account to login). She has a very interesting perspective on how personal technologies have brought us positive benefits, but at the same time have negatively impacted our society, and have ...