Quotes for the week ending 29 Feb, 2008

“The whole 19th-century model of scarce distribution and abundant attention has been flipped on its head.”

Tony Quinn, in OMMA, on why we should change our behaviors, not our messages in a web 2.0 world.

“The right successor to the DVD is not Blu-ray or anything else. It’s the web.”

The Economist, 23 February 2008.

“The issue is no longer whether or not social media should be used. That genie is out of the bottle …The stress point has now moved to how the enterprise will use social media..”

Shel Israel, on there being two camps in social media. Camp #1 tends to ruin it for everyone else. It is run by marketing people who use social media simply for brand awareness.

“The authority factor over-weights (sic) poor writing skills”

ProBlogger Daniel Scocco, one of the top 100 blogs on Technorati, answering the question if poor writing skills overshadow good content.

“This election year, anyone can be a Henry.”

Lee Gomes, in The Wall Street Journal, on how a reader called Henry, commenting on the ABC News web site, thought to be a staffer at a presidential campaign, turned out to be a high school teacher.