It was only a few months ago that frictionless sharing was being talked about as the future of social media. It followed Facebook’s launch in September of what it called a “new breed of apps” that displayed video, music and news alongside its new timeline profile feature.

While initial results from the likes of The Guardian, The Independent and The Washington Post were very positive, with millions signing up for these Facebook social apps, that trend has now gone into steep reverse indicating the problem of over-sharing. Read More »

Interesting post on the Daily Telegraph regarding the Wikileaks Afghanistan logs and the huge scoop granted to The Guardian, The New York Times and the German weekly Der Spiegel. Read More »

Clay Shirky is interviewed in the Guardian this morning talking about how he thinks Rupert Murdoch’s paywall for The Times will be a flop and that financially the numbers don’t add up. Interesting to hear that while he argues the numbers don’t add up, he says Murdoch’s ability to succeed comes down to the ability to lock people out of the conversation — to create what I dubbed anti-social media. Read More »