Tuesday, January 19th, 2010...11:35 am
Three Quick Links
1.What Would Martin Luther King Make of Twitter?
Baratunde Thurston ponders #MLK in Vanity Fair, and comes up with a solid quote: “All too often, Twitter encourages shallow understanding even from those who have your best interest at heart.”
2. Which charities spend the most on administration?
A pretty simplistic approach – the author doesn’t pick apart the different between fundraising and administration costs. The comments are more interesting than than the article. What’s really interesting is this: on the MoneySense homepage, this is ranked as the most popular article, despite being published nearly three weeks ago.
3. Dinosaurs Laughed at Facebook Revolt
Via The Tyee – excellent summary of the anti-Harper Facebook revolt, and how it’s been dismissed by politicians. Watch this story…
1 Comment
February 14th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Interesting third link. But it somewhat implies (for lack of thorough discussion) that a facebook page in itself is already enough … the trigger of political change.
Such a way of presenting the “power of social media” is what makes people say “But that’s so easy, it doesn’t mean anything.” Well, it does mean something: 200,000 people actually were interested and could potentially do more (now that they heard of it!)
But surely not all of them are enough interested to really do more than clicking a button. Maybe someone could establish an equation:
“power of facebook” = (fans – potential offline activists) x (follow-up by page administors).
Cheers.
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