Comments on: Where Life Goes On In Blogland http://www.erelevant.net/2007/01/26/where-life-goes-on-in-blogland/ A blog about electronic marketing, culture, and life on the digital frontier. Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:47:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Kevin Guidry http://www.erelevant.net/2007/01/26/where-life-goes-on-in-blogland/comment-page-1/#comment-3188 Kevin Guidry Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:33:12 +0000 http://www.erelevant.net/?p=62#comment-3188 "...it looks like the podcast binge is drawing to a close." It's a niche technology. I'm very excited about it and very impressed with it (more so by the process - layering multimedia on top of text-based XML - than the content) but I don't think it realistic to believe that audio is suddenly (a) easy to do well and (b) the appropriate medium for everything. "...social networking is gearing up to become the next trend-du-jour." Love it or hate it, for many people (including between 70%-95% of undergraduates, depending on which study you read) social networking *is* the current trend. I know there's a lot of hype and hyperbole but there really are a helluva lot of young people using MySpace and Facebook so asserting that these are "gearing up" isn't very accurate, IMHO. That many in higher ed are a bit behind the times (which is not always a bad thing - we're inherently conservative in many ways and that's simply one of our collective traits) doesn't change that this phenomenon is currently popular. “…it looks like the podcast binge is drawing to a close.” It’s a niche technology. I’m very excited about it and very impressed with it (more so by the process – layering multimedia on top of text-based XML – than the content) but I don’t think it realistic to believe that audio is suddenly (a) easy to do well and (b) the appropriate medium for everything.

“…social networking is gearing up to become the next trend-du-jour.” Love it or hate it, for many people (including between 70%-95% of undergraduates, depending on which study you read) social networking *is* the current trend. I know there’s a lot of hype and hyperbole but there really are a helluva lot of young people using MySpace and Facebook so asserting that these are “gearing up” isn’t very accurate, IMHO. That many in higher ed are a bit behind the times (which is not always a bad thing – we’re inherently conservative in many ways and that’s simply one of our collective traits) doesn’t change that this phenomenon is currently popular.

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