Comments by Dan Thornton

Cheers for the comment – my honest answer is that I don't know. Personally I mix business and pleasure, and tend to find it isn't an issue as I don't tend to post things which are particularly offensive, and I tend to work with companies/people/bosses who understand social networking enough to see my reasoning and the benefits.
But I've worked with people who maintain a clear distinction, and it definitely works just fine for them…

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Cheers for the comment, and I think you're very correct. It's not entirely the fault of individuals though – the standard busines shierachy means that to run a big media company normally takes a reasonable amount of climbing the company ladder, so you're less likely to get digital natives/enthusiasts up there… (Not saying age means you can't be incredibly digitally savvy, but proportionally it's less likely at the moment).

It's also a business based on proven models of success – whereas the current situation is more rewarding when you're willing to try 20 things and see what works…

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lol…I get tempted to do the same thing, but I'm far too lazy!

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Most of my points have been said - RSS should essentially manage itself, and don’t need any content creation/support etc. And they allow people to take contact and use it in a variety of ways - including displaying it as a widget on their own social networking profile/website, for example, or feeding other services, in addition to allow feed readers.

Before you turn off RSS, you might want to check how many papers are mindlessly churning out their RSS feeds on Twitter for example!

Personally, if newspapers turned off RSS, I suspect they’d never see me visit their sites again - I use Twitter as a real time stream of information, but my RSS Reader is a library of sources I’ve invested time nad effort in reading regularly and getting to know. One doesn’t replace the other - they co-exist.

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Sounds like each of my two daily journeys via public transport. It's why I miss commuting via motorcycle so much, and why public transport is always such a monumental disapointment no matter how much they raise the prices.

I think it's compensating for the slightly lacklustre career/life, judging by the fact the pushiest people are invariably those who are wearing the cheapest suits.

:)

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Good points. In London the way to get cheap drinks and good service is mainly to find a good Sam Smiths pub...or a decent independant pub stocking decent real beer.

Personally price is a secondary concern for me when it comes to having a drink now - if if was all important, I'd be at home with beer from the supermarket.

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Nice post, but perhaps blurring two related concepts a little too much.

People self-organise in communities of purpose without 'top down' organisation - although often 'leaders'emerge in order to have a productive outcome.

In terms of content, people are self-publishing in a huge number of ways and formats. Some of this is filtered by the networks an individual forms - so they see what their friends are doing, effectively.
But there is also a need for context which can often be missing from unfiltered streams (for example, how many trusted friends does the average network contain who were giving honest accounts of #Mumbai, and how many people were repeating and retweeting without considering the content, or spamming the hashtag on Twitter etc).
There's also the debate around how much insight eyewitness reports can give - how do you take 200 tweets about a plane crash, and then bring in industry figures, implications for business, etc, without some form of organisation or journalistic contacts and skills?

It's the difference between action e.g the community that is involved in investing via something like Kiva, and the content role of something like Twitter during an event.

Both are social, but they have different requirements and skills.

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Duly noted and will take a look at it later today! Although if it means you're contributing to the upkeep of my two sites, then I might have to consider carefully before altering it!

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Unless Google sell and serve the advertising directly, I’m guessing it’s being served via Google Adsense?

And whoever administers that account has the ability to block advertising, just like anyone who uses Adsense?

So they could quit easily solve the problem themselves?

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Cheers for the comments (and offers of help). Rest assured I'll be starting to experiment more with the audio-visual side of microblogging!

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If it fades away, then you’ve done something worthwhile in starting to change things - but if you can implement a worthwhile business out of this, I’d be happy to help if I can.
I’ve spent almost 10 years in print and broadcast media, and would be happy to help in whatever way time allows - there is too much of a continued need for ‘context’, even if many publishers feel they can save their hide saving costs in content alone.
Pleasure to share a surname!

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Someone other than myself wrote up one press trip I was part of, and sums it up far more eloquently than I could manage:

http://www.thetriforce.com/newblog/?p=1011

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Cheers for the comment - and the link to Feeding America figures. I should have though to have a look on the charity website (but didn't as I was writing using wifi on the train to work and it's painfully bad sometimes!)

I'd agree that some money is better than nothing, but to question whether there's any marketing benefit? It's part of a big promotion for their new internet browser, and will have been planned and discussed as part of their marketing plan.

Compared to the money being spent to promote Bing, or the good work that Bill Gates has done for charity, it's pretty tiny.

(Just for the record, I'm generally pro MS - I'm most at home with Windows, I have a general dislike of Macs, and I'm an Xbox fanboy (original and 360!) )

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You taste in 'good mood' films tends to be similar to mine - films like Heathers and Mallrats probbaly edge Ferris for me (The humour is darker/more cutting).
Mindless action also works for me - just pick anthing produced by Simpson/Bruckenheimer - Top Gun, Days of Thunder, The Rock, Con Air etc. I grab beer/ice cream, disengage my brain, and enjoy the eloquent and intellectual dialogue (e.g. Con Air - 'Put the bunny back in the box).
If nothing else the lead characters are always named in comedy fashion..(Days of Thunder - 'Cole Trickle')

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Totally agree - in fact I’ve recently been offered, accepted and started work with a new company despite the recession, and haven’t regretted it for a moment…

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