Overheard during the week ending 5/8/10

May 10, 2010

Politics, shopping, fundraising, movies, healthcare… everybody’s doing it, but no one’s really happy about it. Is social media an unpleasant fact of life?

Overheard during the week ending 5/1/10

May 4, 2010

Whether or not Mark Zuckerberg believes in privacy, the world is clamoring for more and more access… except for a New Jersey principal and the Federal government.

Overheard during the week ending 4/24/10

April 27, 2010

Controversy and legal troubles this week: Goldman Sachs, Gizmodo, Blippy, and addicted college students struggle with social-media fallout.

Overheard during the week ending 4/17/10

April 20, 2010

Twitter tops the roundup this week, for better or for worse: searching, archiving, advertising, and crowd sourcing. Oh yeah, and Microsoft invents a social phone?!?

Overheard during the week ending 4/10/10

April 13, 2010

It’s easy to make fun of the banality of social media. The thing that makes it hard to ignore, though, is how darn effective it is at all sorts of things.