Society is increasingly entangled online, which means we are frequently connecting with one another in ways we would not have done in person prior to the Internet. It’s clear that online social media have transformed societies in recent years; anyone who’s been paying attention to news coverage has noticed how online media is frequently driven [...]
October 19, 2011
I would like to thank Bruce Hurwitz for the nice interview yesterday. I could talk about my dissertation for a long time, and he was kind enough to chat me at length about it for Blogtalkradio. The complete interview is below. Listen to internet radio with Bruce Hurwitz on Blog Talk Radio
November 27, 2010
Earlier this year, my friend and colleague Christel Hall hooked me up with Eric Schwartzman for an “On the Record” podcast. A few notes: Information presented in this interview was gleaned from a number of sources. The first was a story by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which had compiled records on the top water users [...]
July 27, 2010
Pro-blogger wannabes have a reason to celebrate. While there’s been longstanding doubt over the practicality of becoming a professional blogger, news announced last week just may put a kink into the view espoused by critics that site monetization is more hype than a reliable income stream. No longer will naysayers have much evidence for the [...]
May 26, 2010
The verdict is in. Despite my informal experiment just over a year ago that drew roughly the same conclusions, researchers presented on Monday research results that found the following: “Drawing a huge following on Twitter does not necessarily mean that your tweets will have much influence. It turns out that some noncelebrities with meager followings [...]
February 1, 2012