June 2009
5 posts
“Media Fast”, an audio version hastily...
Media Fast
Last weekend I decided to fast, to abstain from, media - all media - for a week. A funny thing happened, namely, my wife an artist and teacher knows media better than I do, a media professional.
In my first day of the fast I was home all day with my son, it was too quite and I was fasting from media - which obviously means no TV. So I turned the radio on to NPR without hesitating, not even...
fred-wilson:
Rave On (Buddy Holly cover) - M...
Twitter's 90/10 Rule
After examining my own Twitter account (721 days old) this holds true - 90% of tweets are from 13% of people I follow. More painful is that 70% of tweets are contributed by 4% of my followers. And if you break that 70% down, 36% are from 3 automated sources (news sources) and the other 34% is by one human who has tweeted over 200 times in the past 8 days. I am unfollowing that 4% now.
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