Month: January 2009
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Why is an influence metric hard to decide on?
Why is coming to common metric for measuring influence so hard? Short answer: because measuring influence is not only nuanced, but it’s also really hard. Maybe we’re asking the wrong question, maybe we should be asking how susceptible to influence are we? First, a matter of semantics: authority is power bestowed by an outside source.…
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Andreas Kluth and the Campfire
Great podcast interview with the Economist‘s Andreas Kluth contrasting social media and the communication around the campfire. “We were all awkward as teenagers … if I had had already Facebook and such media available to me I would have probably been completely impossible to talk to now. Because of course, there is a certain brain…