May 19, 2008

hyper-connected

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Posted by hugh macleod at May 19, 2008 6:43 AM | TrackBack
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You forgot to add, "I have 5,000+ friends on Facebook, 3,000+ followers on Twitter and 2,500 friends on FriendFeed and all I got was this lousy t-shirt".

Posted by: Chris at May 19, 2008 7:15 AM

Very funny and to large extent I agree with you. I saw your twit, linked to your cartoon, got a good chuckle. Not exactly a world-changing exchange. On the other hand, w/o our virtual connectedness, I don't think Obama would be where he is today. 800,000 My.barackobama.com members = lots of $$.

Posted by: Jo Lee at May 19, 2008 7:32 AM

Wonderful - Love It ;-)

Posted by: PXLated at May 19, 2008 9:19 AM

Love this and the network one. Can I use one for a keynote on Friday? M

Posted by: Mark Earls at May 19, 2008 9:20 AM

Hugh,

Funny stuff. I agree with you, Jo Lee. Not to make this too political or anything, but I was on a pro-Hillary blog recently where the blogger was bashing Obama for not paying too close of attention to blogs whereas Hillary has meetings with bloggers all the time. And yet she's still losing. To me, this is a perfect example of being hyper-connected but having a sub-par message. That's just me, though.

Posted by: Madrugada Jones at May 19, 2008 10:15 AM

This cartoon reminded me of Charles Darwin's famous "I think" diagram/doodle:
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/darwin/idea/treelg.php

Posted by: Richard Carter, FCD at May 19, 2008 1:15 PM

Yep. That definitely resonates!

Posted by: Sam Radford at May 20, 2008 2:12 AM

Hugh, that's a brilliant observation.

Posted by: Frank Roche at May 24, 2008 6:24 PM