Amitai Givertz’s Blogversity Blog

A great slide stack…

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An interesting panel of pundits from across the globe chinwag on digital media. This takes an hour to watch regardless of what time zone you’re in.

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Just posted on Social Disorders: Do Not Adjust Your Set on my Recruitomatic blog…

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Back in December I saw this teaser posted by Miikka Leinonen on SlideShare, and more recently updated on Insightory.com.

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This morning I posted Just Another Brick in the Wall on my Recruitomatic blog. It features a video produced by the Digital Ethnography Working Group out of Kansas State University. The group is led by Dr. Michael Wesch…

Wow, these guys produce such good stuff!

Here is another great visual, Information R/evolution:

Information R/evolution follows on from the excellent primer Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us. I posted that a while back on RecruitingBlogs.com.

An interesting post on Social Media Explorer ‘Deconstructing Second Life’ questions the value of Second Life based on a review of the virtual world’s demographics:

The demographics show 8.5 million users, but only 561,000 of those are “active.” While nearly 40 percent of the active ones are age 25-34, only 26 percent are from the United States (with Brazil a distant second a 8.5). The numbers show 57 percent of active users are male…

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The sweet irony of unrequited love for my efforts to understand the recursive nature of blogs has not reached the point at which I realize my efforts might be better spent researching something else. 

One of the benefits of chasing your tail is that in the process there is so much interesting stuff to discover and think about, all wonderful distractions from the bitter irony that if I am ever successful in my quest I’ll finish up kissing my ass good-bye.

And so I discovered Dr. Richard Barbrook who recently published what looks like a smashing book, Imaginary Futures.  I am setting this aside to study more closely because the thesis is fascinating and there is something about the overall feel of the thing that resonates with me, something retro maybe?

Here is the professor in his own words…

…and the text to study. Also, Sarah Snider’s review in Culture Wars, perhaps a better place to start.

I came across a new social network called projectstars, yet another killer startup. The site touts “blog for stock in the largest enterprise business blogging network” as if to suggest the potential payoff for participation might be worth the absolutely mind-numbing prospect of having to fill out yet another blessed profile first.

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Take a look at The Recursive Nature of Recruiting Blogs and let me know what you think.

As I begin to look at SlideShare for all its virtues as a medium to both communicate and optimize content I am reminded that everything we publish brands us. The challenge then is to create content that is at least as good as the best.

Daggit! I’ve really got my work cut out…