This issue of my weekly roundup focuses on everyone on the World Wide Web who wrote about me or linked to me over the past seven days. This is about you.
With inspiration to every Araneidan around the world and their spinneret glands which produce silky threads that form spider webs, I thank you for sharing a little bit of me with your world. I feel it is only proper to share a little bit of you with my world.
If the spider’s legacy is anything worthwhile, then maybe you and I are proving to everyone else that Web 2.0 is bringing us a little bit closer…
- Lance Strate, thank you!
I wrote about you Monday in relation to Leonard Cohen inspiring social media. You commented on my post, and I commented back on yours. You felt the need to write a follow-up post, linking back to me. And here I am, linking back to you.
- Joseph Thornley, thank you!
I referenced you on Thursday in relation to the sinking Technorati compared to the blossoming Google Blog Search. You opted to follow-up and quote me. It was only natural that I’d link back to you.
- Dave Fleet, thank you!
Like Joe above, you also linked to my Technorati techno-babble by use of a single hyperlinked word, “me,” and I felt inspired to link to you in many more words.
- Nancy Friedman, thank you!
Imagine my surprise when I saw a Google Alert arrive in my inbox and noticed that my post yesterday about finding Sarah Palin online was referenced on your site in a clever way of political satire comparing Palin to just about everyone else.
- Max Gladwell, thank you!
You deserve special mention. While you did not write about me or link to me from your social media and green living blog, you did reference my post on social media enabling social change from a Twitter message. It matters not that I initiated the tweet that you echoed; the fact I call attention to is you opted to echo it.
We talk jargon and use trendy buzzwords like social media and Web 2.0 but what does it all mean?
If you walk down a path in rural America or urban Kuwait, how many people can describe the difference between a blog and a wiki, or know who Dilbert is? How many homes have broadband access, or the money to pay for it?
With the digital divide a global phenomenon, we sometimes forget to step back and recall that Time Magazine, in 2006, profiled YOU, the user of the 2nd edition of the World Wide Web as its person of the year.
If you feel inspired, add a note below. Link your name to your blog or your Twitter feed or your Facebook account. Let me know who you are.
But, moreover, follow everyone I’ve thanked above, for they are agents of social change and enablers of social proof. They are the real heroes.
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Ari Herzog is an online media strategist and Newburyport City Councilor-Elect.
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