Seems like ‘New Media Month.’ BusinessWeek has a cover feature on social media. Scientific American reports that blogging is good for you. The New York Review of Books has a good article on digital storage and communications affecting libraries, research, and books. (Good historical perspective, pointing out that “Information has never been stable.”) I liked Daniel Drezner’s paper on how blogs and social media are benefiting the development of public intellectuals (download file)… Maybe the Google-Facebook and Google-Microsoft ‘arms races‘ have this stuff in the front our minds… We’ve been watching Microsoft’s attempts to grab Yahoo’s key assets, there was Google’s recent Friend Connect release, and now Facebook going open source… Maybe we’re at a critical moment, a genuine turning point… Wired has been doing retrospective 15th anniversary stuff; in May their founding editor looks back, and forward… It’s a great time to get more involved in social media: definitely not too early but still not too late either: I’ve been playing with FriendFeed. Now you can still play, but in 5 or 10 years people like Scoble will be teaching their (soon to be) craft in colleges. More on that…
