It’s very hard to disagree with anything in this post:- the whole thing deserves a visit though:
“For starters: social media is a stupid term. Is there any anti-social media out there? Of course not. All media, by definition, is social in some way. The term interactive media, a more accurate term for what’s going on…”
And this cartoon underlines Kevin Harris’s point about how online interactivity is no substitute for interactivity.
Pretty much agree with Scott there, and love that cartoon. Friend of mine (Cllr & PPC in a 3-way) had a party to celebrate 1000 FB friends, very few turned up–if it was 1000 friends in his ward/constituency I’d actually be impressed (Adrian, MP for Torbay, has over 1000 MySpace friends from Torbay), but loads of followers or friends that are effectively random online faces is meaningless.
I do like that article, I suspect I’ll link it. (BTW, like what you’re doing with the Indy/LJ setup, keep meaning to actively promote the crossposter a bit more, very effective tool).