I just read on Charlene Li's blog about Forrester's "Social Computing: How Networks Erode Institutional Power,And What To Do About It" .....guess what I'm going to do about it? I'm going to point you to Clay Shirky's post on Social Software and the Politics of Groups published in 3/03, nowhere in this essay does Clay mention blogs, yet Forrester wants us to imagine that blogs are social software.
Blogging is first and foremost publishing with the added feature of comments and trackbacks to enable a conversation. Markets are conversations is the manifesto of the cluetrain and that can be downloaded for free, so why would anyone pay Forrester $299.00?
Charlene is one of the authors of this report, but you will not find a link back to her blog; Charlene Li's insights on technology developments in media and marketing....how curious is that?
Social computing ignored the axiom on the internet nobody knows you’re a dog in their race to gather eyeballs, traction and capital.
On a blog you have a voice and a voice is recognizable, your reputation is your authentication.
Whenever I get something wrong on my blog someone will quickly comment, yesterday in the New York Times was a story about a photograph by Ansel Adams, but nowhere could I comment that this was a photo of Georgia O'Keeffe's hands.