Micro Persuasion: The Web Changes How We Define Friendship

There's an old saying: "you can never have too much money or friends." But that's before social networking came along. And while the adage for money still rings true, a shift maybe under way in how we…

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Friendships in the Connected Age: Higher Quantity AND Higher Quality

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Steve Rubel suggests that the web is making friendship “more about quantity and less about quality.” I see something quite different. I have more friends because of the web, but at the same time, my relationships…

When the word friend means anything, it means nothing

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[Note: I just returned to work from a family vacation. I was in Maine, where it was nice and cool and I was fortuante enough to find some time to read and think and notice the shapes of rocks. In Maine, there are lots…

Micro Persuasion: Why We\’re Like a Million Monkeys on Treadmills

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Lately I have been thinking a lot about channels. Every day it seems there's a hot new Web 2.0 site that captures our attention. In 2003 it was Friendster and Linked In. Then in 2004, thanks in part to the…

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Micro Persuasion: Google News Now Has Feedback, Editing and More Risk

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Google News US has added a new feature that, while promising, is sure to be controversial. Any person mentioned in a news story that Google indexes can email in their comments to news-comments@google.com. Those who do…

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Micro Persuasion: Crowdsourcing a New System for Measuring Influence (Beta)

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When I started blogging a few years ago I quickly got to know Steve Gillmor. I love Steve. He consistently says things are dead - Office, TV and links, just to name a few. Sometimes Steve is right, other times…

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Micro Persuasion: The Attention Crash

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If you want to learn how to blog, go read Marc Andreessen\’s new weblog. I haven\’t absorbed many other blogs as deeply as a I have his - at least since he started writing it a few weeks ago. Marc…

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Micro Persuasion: When Less is More and More is Less

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If you've been reading my blog for more than a year, I want to thank you. You may have noticed that it has gone through a significant change. For nearly three years I blogged nearly every single day here and…

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