Tag: conversations
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The Case for Reverting to Web Forums
Reading Time: 2 minutes There is a case for reverting to web forums. Web forums are small communities of like minded people that form around topics, ideas, or ideals. They want to have conversations where you look at topics and sub topics, rather than following people. By having conversations on a smaller scale there is…
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Social Media and The Human Return on Investment
Reading Time: 3 minutes Social Media and the Human Return on Investment, because contrary to popular belief we use social networks to socialise, not to shop. As we grow older and more mature our close network of friends changes and evolves. We go from school friends to university friends and then to professional friends. In…
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Has Social Media made us less sociable?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Introverts who are not going to compete with extroverts, through social media, have an opportunity to have friendships and interactions that would otherwise not occur. To say that Social media makes is unsociable is a fallacy. When I was a uni student the second time around I was socialising with fellow…
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Threaded conversations and community
Reading Time: 2 minutes From the 1970s to 2007 we had threaded conversations through bulletin boards, forums, groups and other centralising discussion points. For a brief window of about two years conversations became so captivating that people wanted to meet in person as strong friendships were established. By 2009-2010 the threaded and personal conversations between…
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Le petit Soldat de Jean Luc Godard
Reading Time: < 1 minute Filmed in a Cinema Verité style. They mention Geneva. A nice conclusion.