October 30, 2006

ft article on danah boyd, plus calacanis etc

2 Comments

The Finan­cial Times publishes an inte­res­ting piece about danah boyd, one of the great Social Media aca­de­mics. Her blog is here. Great stuff.
[Bonus Link:] Jason Cala­ca­nis posts a very lucid e-mail exchange he had with an unna­med jour­na­list, on the busi­ness of blogs-as-mass-media. Again, great stuff:

We are an eight figure a year busi­ness today. In terms of pro­fi­ta­bi­lity the blog­ging busi­ness is bet­ter than the maga­zine or news­pa­per busi­ness in two main ways: 1. there is no dis­tri­bu­tion cost to blog­ging (i.e. prin­ting, ship­ping, and pos­tage), and 2. we don’t have the large mana­ge­ment cost struc­ture because our blog­gers are not edited.

Jason has been high up on my “must read” list for a while. I have nothing but admi­ra­tion for the guy.

2 Responses to “ft article on danah boyd, plus calacanis etc”

  1. James Thomson says:
    October 30, 2006 at 1:41 pm

    I read this in print, in the FT colour maga­zine, and enjo­yed it. Sel­dom can you find, cer­tainly in UK papers, good print artic­les about the rele­vance of the latest online trends, such as web 2.0.
    This is a great pity as offline wri­ters usually pre­sent the online world in a much more jar­gon free man­ner. OK they don’t always ‘get it’, or ‘get all of it’, but that shouldn’t always matter.

  2. John Dodds says:
    October 30, 2006 at 2:28 pm

    Her blog is well worth rea­ding and it’s inte­res­ting to note that she’s much more anth­ro­po­lo­gist than geek and shows that online social net­works follow the same “rules” as offline ones.