Also Not About Research: Why Can’t Newspapers Figure The Internet Out?

Looks like I’m adding a couple hundred more words to the millions already written this year about Why The Media is Dying. This screencap from a New York Times article today about famous people hiring people to “ghost twitter” for them:

You’d think those links (or, as I’m sure they call them at the Times, hyperlinks), [...]

Meanwhile, in Facebook/NCAA News…

This has nothing to do with bad research.
Bad Facebook, that’s another story.
So one of the basketball pools I’m in is hosted at cbssports.com. I installed their Facebook application because I was hoping it would let me log into the main site through the application, which would let me attach my bracket to my profile. (I’m [...]

Lunchtime Poll

(because I’m eating lunch.)
I’ll expand on this later — I don’t want to pollute it by explaining myself too much.

Another Strange Facebook Poll

I’ve edited this image to remove the names and images of the people who posted the items around the “poll.” I left them in just to show the context — the thing just appears right smack dab in the middle of all the normal content generated by my friends.

Weird, right? Also, I live something like [...]

That bad Facebook research was displayed onscreen in Davos

You can see it in this clip, which is ridiculously long, but the results are displayed right at the start:

You can’t really see the results very clearly, but they’re there. More here.
There are probably a couple of good things in here (including further evidence of the long-deserved decline of MySpace), but [...]

When Bad Research and Social Media Intersect

Here I am minding my own business, scrolling through my Facebook news feed on a Saturday morning, and suddenly I see this:

That’s a hell of a complicated question to fling up there in-between “so-and-so added new photos” and “so-and-so is wondering if my dog’s tail wags left to right or right to left??”
I don’t think [...]