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    4 Takeaways from Facebook's "Awesome Announcement"

    Good stuff, although I disagree on the first one. I’m pretty sure an exponential increase in sharing is not only likely, but probably underestimating this. We’re witnessing the biggest transformation in peer to peer, social communication since… well, possibly since ever. Social media (not just the platforms, but the ideals and philosophies behind it) have fundamentally changed the way we interact with the world and with each other, and mobile technology is only exacerbating the impact.

    leebradshaw:

    1. Facebook’s numbers are slowing, even though they just hit 750,000,000 users. (Where was that announcement?) Of course, they are spinning this decline in advancement as a change of interest. Zuck wants to literally exponentially increase sharing by 2X ever year. Boasting a 1024X increase in…

    Posted on Thursday, July 7th 2011

    Tags facebook social media mobile sharing trends announcement news

    Reblogged from Lee in NYC 

    shortformblog: soupsoup: Visualization of Twitter Town Hall topics Press focuses on conflict/politics while citizens focus on jobs/issues. Shocked! The disparity in questions about congress reinforces the notion that, despite being of enormous national import, congressional (dis)functionality isn’t on too many minds outside of the Beltway. The disparity in questions about jobs reinforces the notion that reporters aren’t always tapped into the issues most pressing for the general populace. The almost complete lack of questions about education is just depressing.

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    soupsoup:

    Visualization of Twitter Town Hall topics

    Press focuses on conflict/politics while citizens focus on jobs/issues. Shocked!

    The disparity in questions about congress reinforces the notion that, despite being of enormous national import, congressional (dis)functionality isn’t on too many minds outside of the Beltway. The disparity in questions about jobs reinforces the notion that reporters aren’t always tapped into the issues most pressing for the general populace. The almost complete lack of questions about education is just depressing.

    Posted on Thursday, July 7th 2011

    Tags congress obama askobama townhall journalism politics government interesting infographics townhall twitter social media obama barackobama

    Reblogged from ShortFormBlog  Source soupsoup