The original blogs were micro-blogs, posts pointing to interesting stuff around with the web, with a brief, often snarky comment. Long-form blogging came later. We were all keen to have comments, which prefigured many of the problems of Twitter. And Schlesinger's implicit comparator - "one-way" broadcast and print media - wasn't generally a great forum for reasoned discussion.
Great Schlesinger quote. Prescient, and a bit sad.
Social media lets us engage with many others, with micro-scale information. It's not just the platforms; it's also how humans work. We ARE lazy. Tools that let us be lazy? Very appealing...
The aggressive pursuit of many likes/shares/followers, when liking/sharing/following is a trivial act, is a mob of triviality.
“I quit Twitter in 2000, in the midst of the pandemic, after 7 years on the platform.” You mean 2020, not 2000?
The original blogs were micro-blogs, posts pointing to interesting stuff around with the web, with a brief, often snarky comment. Long-form blogging came later. We were all keen to have comments, which prefigured many of the problems of Twitter. And Schlesinger's implicit comparator - "one-way" broadcast and print media - wasn't generally a great forum for reasoned discussion.
Great Schlesinger quote. Prescient, and a bit sad.
Social media lets us engage with many others, with micro-scale information. It's not just the platforms; it's also how humans work. We ARE lazy. Tools that let us be lazy? Very appealing...
The aggressive pursuit of many likes/shares/followers, when liking/sharing/following is a trivial act, is a mob of triviality.