Comments on: Some thoughts over coffee about social media http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=some-thoughts-over-coffee-about-social-media Rex Hammock's Blog Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kirylyn http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453/comment-page-1#comment-336598 Kirylyn Fri, 22 May 2009 20:42:28 +0000 http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453#comment-336598 but what if we're not drinking a starbucks beverage at all?? there ARE some quite nice local shops that I occasionally spend an evening at. But starbux?? *shudders* but yeah, newspapers are killing themselves, charging more and more and providing less and less pages. I'm trying to get my friend to subscribe to a daily crossword puzzle site and print out the puzzles she so loves to do. Otherwise, she just tosses it. personally? I read the online sites to have a counterpoint to the tv news but what if we’re not drinking a starbucks beverage at all??

there ARE some quite nice local shops that I occasionally spend an evening at. But starbux?? *shudders*

but yeah, newspapers are killing themselves, charging more and more and providing less and less pages. I’m trying to get my friend to subscribe to a daily crossword puzzle site and print out the puzzles she so loves to do. Otherwise, she just tosses it.

personally? I read the online sites to have a counterpoint to the tv news

]]> By: Jumpcurve http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453/comment-page-1#comment-336590 Jumpcurve Fri, 22 May 2009 19:54:42 +0000 http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453#comment-336590 All advertising works together. The key is the mix and what economics work for your product or company. Example where do people think they get brand searches from? Yes some comes from people searching learning etc etc, but most people find out about a brand from some other form of marketing.At some point its all about understanding attribution, achieving scale, and lowering cost of acquisition. I wouldn't be quick to dismiss anything. All advertising works together. The key is the mix and what economics work for your product or company. Example where do people think they get brand searches from? Yes some comes from people searching learning etc etc, but most people find out about a brand from some other form of marketing.At some point its all about understanding attribution, achieving scale, and lowering cost of acquisition. I wouldn’t be quick to dismiss anything.

]]> By: Clarice MacGarvey http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453/comment-page-1#comment-336554 Clarice MacGarvey Fri, 22 May 2009 11:29:51 +0000 http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453#comment-336554 Rex, a refreshing and on-target take on social media. Thanks for the perspective. Rex, a refreshing and on-target take on social media. Thanks for the perspective.

]]> By: Hudge http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453/comment-page-1#comment-336400 Hudge Wed, 20 May 2009 16:11:46 +0000 http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453#comment-336400 If you are drinking a starbucks beverage instead of one from a local mom-and-pop coffee shop, then you ARE having the kool-aid. If you are drinking a starbucks beverage instead of one from a local mom-and-pop coffee shop, then you ARE having the kool-aid.

]]> By: Rex Hammock http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453/comment-page-1#comment-336343 Rex Hammock Wed, 20 May 2009 03:35:40 +0000 http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453#comment-336343 @Mark - Even after reading that definition, I'm not sure what it means. @Mark – Even after reading that definition, I’m not sure what it means.

]]> By: Mark Alves http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453/comment-page-1#comment-336338 Mark Alves Wed, 20 May 2009 03:00:08 +0000 http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453#comment-336338 Facewall? Facebookends? And now I know what "addicate" means, even if that wasn't your intention. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=addicate Facewall? Facebookends?

And now I know what “addicate” means, even if that wasn’t your intention. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=addicate

]]> By: Jackson Miller http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453/comment-page-1#comment-336274 Jackson Miller Tue, 19 May 2009 15:00:56 +0000 http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453#comment-336274 Great points Rex. Looking forward to the post on Walled Gardens of Adolescence. Great points Rex. Looking forward to the post on Walled Gardens of Adolescence.

]]> By: Rex Hammock http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453/comment-page-1#comment-336273 Rex Hammock Tue, 19 May 2009 14:43:08 +0000 http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453#comment-336273 that would be "abdicate." that would be “abdicate.”

]]> By: Rex Hammock http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453/comment-page-1#comment-336272 Rex Hammock Tue, 19 May 2009 14:40:38 +0000 http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453#comment-336272 @Jackson - It doesn't help things that you and I live in a city that, like many, was victimized by the mis-guided corporate strategy of media companies that rolled up lots of dailies into a giant mush of nothingness. They have now decided to addicate the only thing worth having if you're a local paper: localness. So, as I said in my post, newspapers are a victim of corporate suicide -- it's not the format. Also, to test your "it's a generational thing" -- poll anyone you know who attends a university with a daily university newspaper and ask them where they get their daily news about what's going on around campus (not, news of their friends, but news of the campus) -- specifically ask them if they get it from the student newspaper or from the student newspaper website. Also, the more I visit university classes, the more I believe we are seeing a generation of "neo-traditionalists" emerge, but their tradition is Facebook and they haven't yet discovered the downside of living in such a walled-garden. (I feel a post coming on.) @Jackson – It doesn’t help things that you and I live in a city that, like many, was victimized by the mis-guided corporate strategy of media companies that rolled up lots of dailies into a giant mush of nothingness. They have now decided to addicate the only thing worth having if you’re a local paper: localness.

So, as I said in my post, newspapers are a victim of corporate suicide — it’s not the format.

Also, to test your “it’s a generational thing” — poll anyone you know who attends a university with a daily university newspaper and ask them where they get their daily news about what’s going on around campus (not, news of their friends, but news of the campus) — specifically ask them if they get it from the student newspaper or from the student newspaper website.

Also, the more I visit university classes, the more I believe we are seeing a generation of “neo-traditionalists” emerge, but their tradition is Facebook and they haven’t yet discovered the downside of living in such a walled-garden. (I feel a post coming on.)

]]> By: Jackson Miller http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453/comment-page-1#comment-336269 Jackson Miller Tue, 19 May 2009 14:03:14 +0000 http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/05/19/19453#comment-336269 I agree that nothing is dying, well, except maybe newspapers. If I was in a city where I rode the subway or bus everyday then I would still read newspapers regularly (or would bite the bullet and purchase a Kindle and WSJ subscription). But I think I am the last generation. In a way I think it may be a self-fulfilling prophecy. As newspaper readership declines, fewer young people get exposed to newspapers. Every once in a while I will pick up a Sunday paper because I have fond memories of being a kid and everyone reading the paper during breakfast. Without that exposure I would have no desire to read the Sunday paper. Likewise, it was when I was traveling all the time and got free newspapers that I became a fan of sitting down with the WSJ. Of course, this argument also might make me sound like a curmudgeon saying that "those kids today don't have the values we did". I agree that nothing is dying, well, except maybe newspapers.

If I was in a city where I rode the subway or bus everyday then I would still read newspapers regularly (or would bite the bullet and purchase a Kindle and WSJ subscription). But I think I am the last generation.

In a way I think it may be a self-fulfilling prophecy. As newspaper readership declines, fewer young people get exposed to newspapers. Every once in a while I will pick up a Sunday paper because I have fond memories of being a kid and everyone reading the paper during breakfast. Without that exposure I would have no desire to read the Sunday paper. Likewise, it was when I was traveling all the time and got free newspapers that I became a fan of sitting down with the WSJ.

Of course, this argument also might make me sound like a curmudgeon saying that “those kids today don’t have the values we did”.

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