http://richardstacy.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/the-curve-of-common-sense/ Staying social media literate on 15 minutes reading per week Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:57:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://richardstacy.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/the-curve-of-common-sense/#comment-359 The social media revolution (in 15 minutes) Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:25:26 +0000 http://richardstacy.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/the-curve-of-common-sense/#comment-359 [...] Personally, I think that social media has within it a tendency to become essentially self-mediating to better standards than the traditional media. However, I am not 100 per cent confident that this will necessarily be the end result or will be achieved without some prompting. I don’t think the answer lies in forms of regulation or codes of conduct, but I do think the answer lies in looking at process. On of the big social shifts inherent in social media is that trust is moving from institutions to processes and James Surowiecki’s excellent Wisdom of the Crowds concludes that this wisdom can only be achieved when certain conditions or processes apply. [...] [...] Personally, I think that social media has within it a tendency to become essentially self-mediating to better standards than the traditional media. However, I am not 100 per cent confident that this will necessarily be the end result or will be achieved without some prompting. I don’t think the answer lies in forms of regulation or codes of conduct, but I do think the answer lies in looking at process. On of the big social shifts inherent in social media is that trust is moving from institutions to processes and James Surowiecki’s excellent Wisdom of the Crowds concludes that this wisdom can only be achieved when certain conditions or processes apply. [...]

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