psychology

Jester of the Round Table

Jen Zingsheim over at Custom Scoop was kind enough to ask me to sit in on the weekly Media Bullseye Roundtable with Sarah Wurrey.

We talked about online civility, the psychology of internet lackeys and minions, and the success of the Old Spice social media campaign. (@oldspice)

It’s a pretty decent little chat – and something I ought to be doing more frequently.

Hint.

Roundtable071610.mp3

Follow @jenzings and @sarahwurrey on Twitter, if you aren’t already.

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civility, internet, podcast, psychology

The Internet is a Kennel

Jul 14th

Posted by Ike in Communication

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By now, many others have weighed in on a very recent online spat, so I won’t go into particulars.

Listen to The Internet is a Kennel

Person A, who is very well known, made a comment that devoid of context came across as arrogant. He didn’t mean it that way.

Person B, who is very well-respected (and less well-known,) wrote about how such interactions and communications can indeed breed incivility online, without naming names.

Person A wrote a scathing open letter to Person B.

Both Person A and Person B are friends of mine. Real friends, not just “online friendz,” with whom I have shared multiple meals and drinks apiece. So this isn’t about them.

This is about the lapdogs who try to curry favor with the Internet Famous. More >

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behavior, blogging, internet, psychology, Social Media, twitter