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.
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
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).