October 30, 2006
ft article on danah boyd, plus calacanis etc
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.
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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.
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.