As for your Twitter’s Trending Topics remarks and specifically your example, I think you’re ignoring the disproportionate historical importance of urban in mainstreaming social and mobile networking. A bit of history. Years before Friendster, BlackPlanet was gigantic, hip-hop made the Motorola Two-Way a fashion statement and texting a staple utility, the so-called digital divide was overcompensated for in the mobile space for personal digital communication, and advertisers have granted this demographic huge CPM’s attesting to both how valuable and elusive urban culture has become. There’s a reason why they created Amp’d, Boost and Cricket Mobile and not Alt Hipster Skinny Black Jeans Mobile. Urban culture has propped up icons who leverage artistic endeavors toward entrepreneurial ends - it’s Jay-Z Inc. and Diddy Inc., not Green Day Inc. or Coldplay Inc., and the bank accounts reflect the impact on consumption across mediums. The aspirational aspect of this culture, and how each step ladders to another - from artist, to record label owner, to clothing designer, to premium liquor/beverage, to actor, to publisher/filmmaker, to media mogul - is embedded. For better or worse, urban figured out me-focused-consumption-culture a decade after Regan’s 80s in a way that was both defiant and embracing of the original spirit.
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Greg G: Facebook Attrition and Twitter Trends
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think we agree here,...we’re both trying to find interesting things. Again, my point
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I understand your point regarding what...is not personally interesting. I’d rephrase this...
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computers/the web are different things to different people. to some, they’re an extremely powerful tool for performing...
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This situation is also a reflection of the people that make up the “Internet User” group. I mean, it can’t avoid being...
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Rafer sez: I disagree. The median of what people want to see is a downer, but it’s not the median that counts. The #2...
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