About that Media Snack Meme ...

Jerimiah Owyang started a meme asking whether or not we respected "media snackers." My friends Kami Huyse and Geoff Livingston .  I don't much care for memes.  They seem a bit contrived to inflate links and that cheapens the quality of links or so it seems to me.

But I think, it's an interesting question, and I do believe social media is proving its self to be a great place to ask questions.  I find I get remarkably good answers without using memes.

I will answer Jeremiah's question because it is a good one. Media snacking is nothing new.  My parents were media snackers when they checked listings on TV Guide, or results of a stock they held, or the upper corner of the newspaper's front page to see the weather forecast.

Now we have social media and the quantity and quality of media snacks has improved.  They are popular with young people in particular because young people are driving social media, perhaps more than geeks these days.

It is not an issue of what I want.  It is more an issue of what those looking for entertainment and information want.  Social bookmarks divert traffic from my site. I don't particularly like that. But it's more important to me that because of them, we blogger, microbloggers, online video producers and social networkers have far greater opportunity to contribute to the body of knowledge as was evidenced on Twitter last night, when a moderate, but noticeable Earthquake shook up our physical community.

Comments

[Geoff Livingston]

The customer is always right. Good points. The Twitter earthquake news was slightly scary and impressive at the same time.

Thank you for the shout out, and I'll see you in Austin.

[Jeremiah Owyang]

Thanks for sharing Shel.

[Kami Huyse]

I think it is critical that we realize that it never is about us. Too bad!