Happy Halloween from Go Small
Social media archetypes are inserting themselves into time-tested traditions making it difficult to tell which came first the pumpkin or the tweet. Twitter’s “fail whale” sign for when the social networking website is over capacity carved into a pumpkin (posted by Ryan Deal on mashable.com) is a perfect example of this phenomenon.
As we fumble around with these new technologies, make mistakes, lose patience, experience hair-pulling frustration at having to “learn” newer ways of communicating, what stays in the end more than their thing-ness is how they represent tangible human needs to reach out, socialize, make our voices heard.
Not such a scary thing when it comes right down to it.
Happy Halloween!
June 1st, 2010 at 10:47 am
product review blogs…
We have been working on cranking out some new stuff for everyone. The latest is the Blogger Buddy gadget which allows you to quickly and easily view and post to your blogs on Blogger. com. It’ s still a little basic right now, but it gets the job done …