There are some really intriguing underpinnings of an infrastructure meme at the moment, which I’ll attempt to coalesce around some ongoing social media trends. Please bear with me:
Deepak Kumar, a consultant with the ICFAI Journal of Infrastructure, outlines the distinctions between ‘hard infrastructure’ and ’soft infrastructure’ in these terms1:
(The) infrastructure sector is divided into hard [...]
Published on March 17, 2009 5:14 pm.
Filed under: People and Brands, Things I Have Written Tags: Braess Paradox, Burton Matrix, conversation, Dunbar's Number, follower, functionality, hard infrastructure, Social Media, social networks, soft infrastructure, urban planning, visualization
I was never much of a skater, though not for a lack of trying. In the end, I think I was much more interested in the culture that it embodied (and was as far flung from my rural Texas upbringing as could be imagined) – mostly the recordings of Skatemaster Tate1.
Still, absurd co-opting of skate [...]
Published on February 17, 2009 10:25 am.
Filed under: Notes on Things Seen, People and Brands Tags: brands, follower, pop culture, skater, Twitter
Another in a series of good posts from Becca over at CultureSnack, this time on the news that the Brooklyn Museum has found a means by which to monetize Twitter:
…the Brooklyn Museum has figured out a way to monetize its social networking efforts without going the expected route of selling ad space. For $20, people [...]
Published on January 23, 2009 9:38 am.
Filed under: People and Brands, Things I Have Written Tags: art, cost, follower, museums, passionate followers, patrons, Service, social networking, subscriber, Twitter