Search The Measurement StandardI'm amazed at how many people love Loren Feldman's sock puppet satires of social media guy Shel Israel. And I notice a number of people respond very favorably to Drama 2.0's criticism of Shel and Jeremiah Owyang and Kami Huyse's rollercoaster research.
Is it just me, or is there some kind of backlash against social media? If the sock puppets are just satire, as Tom'sTechBlog claims, why is the satire so well received? Are people responding to the over-hyped world of 2.0 by being just a little too hard on some of its promulgators? --Bill Paarlberg
Bill: I don't think it's unfair to question all of the social media claims that are easily thrown into doubt with the application of a minimal amount of logic and to also question the credibility of the promulgators of some of the more dubious claims.
The hype around Web 2.0 and social media was to be expected but the hype has jumped so far ahead of the substance that I think it's causing an increasing number of people to ask reasonable questions. After all, truth resonates and I think more and more people are recognizing that the vibrations of reality are noticeably absent in Web 2.0.
In less musical terms, at the end of the day, money talks and bullshit walks.
Posted by: Drama 2.0 | April 21, 2008 at 07:09 PM