“Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy didn’t change the world by asking people to join their Facebook crusades or to download their platforms. Activism can only be uploaded the old-fashioned way…”
Thomas Friedman, saying he is impressed and baffled by college students who are just too quiet about present issues. One climate activist group challenged him, saying it’s more committed and organized than he realizes.
“Twitter is simply a digital manifestation of this phenomenon of thinking “aloud” and seeing if there is a response. A bit like bat echo-locating, but on a social rather than topographical level.”
Member of MyRagan, responding to a question about whether or not Twitter could replace blogging. 90 percent of conversation is meaningless filler the writer notes.
“You will be ‘vanilla’. Bland. Inoffensive. Overlooked for more exciting flavours.”
Australian communicator, Lee Hopkins on why it’s important to blog. Actually this is a quote from 2005, from his blog Better Communications.
“My question is: What should I do with this PR stuff?”
Someone posing a question (at Ask a MetaFilter) about accepting an offer from a PR firm to place videos in her Facebook group formed around a movie.
“Practically speaking, I fought the good fight. I’ve variously made my points. Together, we’ve exposed a few frauds and killed countless sacred cows … BUT now I am tired; and now regrettably, I seem to spend all my time revisiting the same battles previously won.”
Amanda Chapel, who resigned from Strumpette on October 8th.
“Facebook has real competition coming. Competition they haven’t yet faced.”
Robert Scoble (who says he has 552 reasons to hate Facebook) on what to expect now that Google has bought Jaiku. world
“As long as it doesn’t mean a tumor is growing on my leg because of my BlackBerry, I’m fine with it … Some people have biological clocks, I might have a biological BlackBerry.”
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