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The Interwebs Makes People Smarter

There have been theories in the past that the Internet has started to dumb people down – even The Atlantic’s Nicholas Carr wrote that the Internet “is chipping away [his] capacity for concentration and contemplation.” However, the latest Pew Research Center study, which I came across thanks to Mediabistro, begs to differ.

The Pew Internet and [...]

Are you a Conversationalist?

There’s a new user label in the social media world: Conversationalists.

In 2007, Forrester developed profiles of social media users and visualized this in their “Social Technographics” infograph, which details each profile’s characteristics as well as its position in the social media hierarchy.

But behaviors change, and Forrester is now adding a rung for Conversationalists: Facebook and [...]