Confused? Me too. The Drill Up means that regular host Andrew Sorcini was unavailable to host Friday evening’s live show, so he handed the reigns to super-blogger and social media expert JD Rucker for a freeform conversation with Digg User Lt. General Panda, and whoever happened to be in the room (including, oddly enough, regular [...]
The Drill Down crew discusses the multitudinous ways tech covered the Inauguration of President Obama. Plus, Britannica takes on Wikipedia, pirate copies of iWork ’09 infect 20,000 with a virus, Digg.com lays off 10%, Hackers get pwned by an empty form field, and Oscar snubs The Dark Knight.
Frequent Drill Bits guest SlashFilmCast’s David Chen offers his .02¢ on the argument that Apple is not so much a technological innovator, but merely a marketing powerhouse. Mu takes the opposing argument. Also we discuss more juicy tidbits about Digg and the dynamics of elitism within social networks.
President-Elect Barack Obama has been called “the first internet president“, on account of his forward thinking, his embrace of technology, and his utilization of social networks to garner attention to his campaign and political causes. Watch him go from President-Elect to President here, live, courtesy of Hulu.
This week The Drill Down crew is honored to have as our guest Lee Garnett, creator of ncomment, a webcomic focusing primarily on social networks such as Digg, Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube. We discuss the dynamics of populism versus elitism on social networks such as Digg and why users on these networks prefer a meritocracy [...]
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