How Do You Keep In Touch with Family and Friends?
Last week Jeremiah asked people to share their media consumption diet. There were a number of responses.
At the time that I responded,only Chris Saad and Brian Keith mentioned that they used the major social networks as a source of communication. Twitter did receive slightly more attention, but then again, exchanging answers to the question is what Twitter is about.
Brian noted my observation and asked a new question: How do you keep in touch with friends and family? He posed the question directly to Jeremiah, Martin McKeay, Chris Saad, Ian and Zac.
As of this moment, Zac has responded. He notes that he has a Facebook account that he uses to stay in touch with old and distant friends and that he uses Linkedin for professional networking. He also mentioned that he uses Facebook and Flickr to share photos with friends and family. His workhorses of staying in touch are his phone and Google talk.He makes a special point of mentioning his aversion to email..and please do not forward him anything!
My response to the question: I use email, Skype (chat) and mobile (voice) primarily. As I mentioned, I get an occasional Facebookand MySpace email, though I have never initiated email from either. My two sons (14 and 16) communicate primarily with text messages which occasionally forces me to respond in this manner.
I will also note that several of my non-blogging friends stay in touch with what I am doing by reading my blog and will mention that in emails or on a phone call.
OK, so that’s me…how about you?
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Markets are conversations…..
But the biggest wedge in the social pie of the public marketplace is relationship. Prices less set than found, and the context for finding prices is both conversation and relationship. Doc Searls
What Kind of Media Do We Call a TV Show on Fox News That is ABOUT Blogs?
OK, this is for real and Michelle Malkin is one of the hosts and it is called "Its Out There." I agree, just not sure where it is. The Bad Guy says it owes a lot to Entertainment Tonight. I would agree. He also wonders where the blogger shows are on other networks since Fox is breaking new ground here.
Well, here’s a sample…I guess I am live blogging this because it is on right now.
According to Variety, it is a half hour series derived from blogs. And indeed it is. They are covering blogs as if they are the news and interviewing the bloggers as if they are rock stars.
They tell us in a breaking news tone, "Hillary Clinton has a Facebook account"…let’s see it live. Kirsten Powers ,a former Clinton strategists, is the other host
John Edwards is on Second Life; you can experience it yourself on Fox News.
"Next, our Mystery Blogger reveals who he is." Yes, they have been giving clues and now they tell us: It is Mark Cuban.
And he is being interviewed about how the candidates are using the Internet. Cuban says, Offline is more important; the web doesn’t drive results it is off line that supports the on line effort. Mark also says that the fact that the campaigns are using the web makes sense to him because the web skews older…older people he contends have more time to be on line. Ok, then…that settles those demos! Thanks Mark, we are out of time.
OK, so Cuban has a post on his blog about the difference between on line video and TV. He says, online video is a snack. It is short and anyone can put together a snack. TV he says is a sit down meal. TV programming he says are a product like a meal at a favorite restaurant or a favorite recipe…it requires preparation and time. TV he says is what we have high expectations for.
I think this analogy is just about as off and out there as the Fox show..which in my opinion was down right silly.
Does Cuban watch TV? Did he watch Out There? If that was a sit down meal, the chef should be fired.
Greg Verdino mentions Cuban’s post and wrote about a Wired article about the trend toward miniaturization of entertainment in everyting from content choices to devices.
He then posts a poll that states, "We live in an age where media snacking (YouTube Videos) and traditional long form media consumption (Network TV) seem to be at odds." His poll posed the question: snack, meal, both or chef. The results thus far indicate and approximate 33% were snackers, 33% were producing their own content to consume the content of others and 16% wanted a meal, 16% wanted a snack and a meal.
Jeremiah Owyang also asked about media consumption as I wrote yesterday. Although this is not meant to be scientific, it appears as that within the meme, participants are consuming media online, and it is consumed as RSS appetizers.
Well, the Fox show is probably best described as lots of little junk food snacks tossed randomly together into a half hour meal. So, we now have a TV show in an entertainment format, reporting about blogs. Life immitating art immitating life? Old media’s interpretation of new media? TV2.0-oh? Or perhaps Meet the Press 2007?
Now, that’s food for thought.
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Media Consumption Diet
Jeremiah Owyang has started a meme on personal media consumption and asked that others join in…Media 2.0 Workgroup members Chris Saad and Peter Kim,have posted responses and Brian Keith, Martin McKeay, Zac Echola also. So here goes, following Jeremiah’s format: (most used at top, least used at bottom)
Web: Primarily, I use RSS via Netvibes which has virtually replaced Bloglines. I also run Touchstone which keeps me alerted to the feeds and keywords that I am most interested in paying attention to. Although I get the feeds from memeorandum and Megite on Netvibes and feeds from Techmeme on my own blog, I check the sites several times a day to see who is talking about what.
Also, news from email alerts from Simply Headlines which sends me to the site if interested.
Communication: Email access on my laptop or on my Blackberry Pearl. IM via Skype is mostly always on. Occasionally I will get email at MySpace or Facebook.
I am not quite climbing the Twitter adoption curve.
I found it interesting that of the Media Consumption posts that I have seen thus far, only Chris Saad (MySpace) and Brian Keith (Facebook) even mention those social networks as a source of communication…the only social network receiving much attention thus far has been Twitter.
TV: This part of the diet has direct influence on the one above…I keep the TV running (TV so no music) in the background with the computer in the foreground.
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Jeremiah says this is a Gen Y thing….as a Boomer, I might have to say that it may characterize that demo, but I think it also characterizes the media addicted, accross generations.
Fox News is on as background virtually all day when I am not on the phone. Old habits die hard. In the evenings, I switch around between MSNBC, Comedy Central,Leno, Conan and the like. If I remember to watch, I like Boston Legal and House.
Books: One of my former life’s pleasures, less so now regretably. Rarely read fiction since that was a bedtime activity when that had a more regular nightime schedule. I have an ADD reading style, with a number of books in various stages of being read.
Newspapers: Wall Street Journal, mostly online is about the only regular read. Get email updates from the New York Times, Boston Globe and the Christian Science Monitor. Other MSM newspaper news comes from search on a topic or links.
Movies: Another evolving consumption habit which for the past two years has become glaringly obvious at Academy Awards time…I see most movies on cable on demand or DVD, not in theaters so I tend to be slightly behind.
Like Chris, I feel like I currently have a shorter attention span than sitting still for a two hour movie would allow, though I don’t attribute it to TV habits. I attribute it in my case more to continuous partial attention.
And at home, I can better control this than in a theater, where the only things that needs attention is the movie and the popcorn
Music: I am totally old school here…CDs in the car or my kids’ IPod if they are with me.
So, not a lot of difference in media diets being noted here.
As Peter Kim points out the most time being spent is on media channels with the least advertising. This group’s habits in this regard are in line with Forrester data: TV, Internet, radio, magazines. More challenges for advertisers are ahead…
And since the media being consumed by these responder edglings is predominantly social,the shifts in media consumption will reach far beyond advertising.
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Personal Immediacy 2.0
The other night, on a Skype chat with Chris Saad and Toby Bloomberg, we reached a point in discussing an issue where we needed input on a specific point..Chris immediately said, "Let me see if he is on Skype and we can add him to the discussion."
OK, well no big deal you say? We do this all the time….yes, I know and isn’t that amazing. It made me think of one of my favorite movie scenes from Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, made in 1977.
A man is pontificating in a movie line about Marshall McLuhan to Woody Allen’s annoyance. Allen tells the man he doesn’t know what he is talking about, the man says that he teaches a class in Media and Culture and is an authority on McLuhan.
Allen says, "Oh that’s funny because I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here." McLuhan appears in the theater lobby and sets the man straight. Allen says to the screen, "Boy if life were only like this."
Life is like this now…we can access ideas and people instanteously. We can find, organize, and access information and communicate directly and immediately with the source of the information. We provide each other with contact information that transcends physical proximity….Skype, Twitter, Facebook; Stowe Boyd says, "The Buddylist is the center of the universe."
It was of course Marshall McLuhan who advanced the idea that the "medium is the message" and who used the term "global village" that describes electronic connectivity in his writing in the 1960s.
When McLuhan wrote the Medium is the Message, it was a misunderstood concept and believed to mean that he was forcasting a time when the channel would be more important than the content. Those closest to him explain that his "message" is "the change of the scale or pace or pattern" that innovation introduces into the way people interact, think and behave.
"’The medium is the message’ is simply the environment created by any new innovation, any new technology, was the thing that changed people, not the technology."
Much is written about access to information and personal connectivity in Web2.0. We have aggregators and are now using applications like Touchstone that use attention data to filter this more quitely into personal relevancy.
The part about being able to just pull someone into a conversation, regardless of time or place, to get an immediate answer to something is becoming one of those changes enabled by technology; in the global village, life is just like this.
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