links for 2007-07-31

FT.com / World – Social networking internet sites revolutionise musical tastes
Taste in music has become far more diverse because of the internet, which is revolutionising the way consumers buy songs, according to research published on Monday.
(tags: digital music, social networking)

Story of My Life Tracks Your History
Story of My Life is a website that lets you [...]

Who makes the rules in society 2.0?

I’m away at the moment which has given me some time to recollect some very cold coffee thoughts – this time from the New Year…
It’s Life Jim, but not as we know it.
Spock’s “no-shit-Sherlock” diagnosis has been disturbing my thoughts of cold coffee due to constant New Year editorial round ups (don’t you hate these and [...]

One for the pedants

Typical, hardly anything to interfere with….
Defining Society 2.0?
Drinking all this coffee is giving me a headache. Plus everyone is having a go at me about the name Society2.0. In fact a faceless pedant at The World’s Leading said something that rhymed with ‘it’s a load of tank.’
Part of the problem is that anything 2.0 has [...]

The future is DERTy

I often think of DERT when drinking strong coffee.  Indeed one of the defining features of Society 2.0 is perhaps it’s DERTiness.   When I say DERT I obviously mean the mashing of media, culture and entertainment with technology that is relentlessly transforming so many pleasures.  Remember album covers, ads at the beginning of video cassettes, [...]

Is Society 2.0 a world of critics?

It’s the transparency stupid!
So cold coffee in San Francisco … not good too milky … but even worse you can’t escape the news anywhere. Pictures of bombs and images in the UK made their way within 5 minutes to West Coast and rest assured at 2am Hargreaves was still working hard. Then in the papers [...]