“What are we to conclude from stark contrast between the (sometimes breathless) praise of USA Today’s “social media†redesign among tech/media bloggers and commentators (with some saying they didn’t go far enough), and the near universal rejection of the redesign among USA Today readers who commented on it? Could it be that it’s really the social media revolutionaries who “don’t get it†when they assume that what the people want is to rise up against the media autocracy and take control, when in fact what most people want is to get high quality information from a reliable source?”
–Scott Karp, Publishing 2.0, c ommenting on the wisdom of crowds
“What are we to conclude from stark contrast between the (sometimes breathless) praise of USA Today’s “social media†redesign among tech/media bloggers and commentators (with some saying they didn’t go far enough), and the near universal rejection of the redesign among USA Today readers who commented on it? Could it be that it’s really the social media revolutionaries who “don’t get it†when they assume that what the people want is to rise up against the media autocracy and take control, when in fact what most people want is to get high quality information from a reliable source?”
–Scott Karp, Publishing 2.0, c ommenting on the wisdom of crowds