We’re trading off potential accuracy for immediacy

QUELLO CHE E' appena successo a Mumbai ha un effetto dirompente anche nella sfera di Internet e soprattutto in quella dei social network. Dopo le drammatiche dirette "online" realizzate da chi si trovava in India e rimbalzate attraverso tutto il flusso, da Facebook a Twitter passando per i blog, adesso si comincia a riflettere su quale sia il significato più profondo

Money quote: What’s happening now — and what is happening in Mumbai — is bigger than all of us. It’s bigger than communicating via Twitter. It’s bigger than just reading blogs. This is where social media grows up.

Money quote: Social media is providing the ability to report and take in unfiltered news in a more direct way than ever before possible and we’re doing it on a mass scale. It’s no longer just a toy for early adopters and Internet nerds; it’s taking its place as an influencer far beyond technology. There is, however, a downside: there’s very little way to know what is true and what is rumor. As fellow ZDNet-er Michael Krigsman said to me the night, “we’re trading off potential accuracy for immediacy.”