links for 2009-​​10-​​20

Lyn­dal Cur­tis’ com­men­tary on the recent Media 140 con­fer­ence in Syd­ney sug­gests she’s not done her home­work. Despite admit­ting to being some­thing of a geek, early adopter and rich social media user, she asks where we find the time and if we’re miss­ing out on talk­ing with big chunks of soci­ety. Has she not con­nected the change in her own activ­i­ties with par­al­lels amongst those she writes for? Lyn­dal, did you not read Here Comes Every­body? Or at least read or watched some of my dop­pel­ganger, Clay Shirky’s pub­lic speak­ing? Do you not check the Pew Inter­net and Amer­i­can Life Project? Maybe even read some of danah boyd’s work on the rich online lives of teens? For an estab­lished and respected jour­nal­ist like Lyn­dal, that sug­gests lazy research. There’s more than enough research  —  from here, Asia, the US and Europe -  to prove beyond doubt that soci­ety in the West, and increasingly …