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Three aspects of social media are truely qualitative departures from the past.

<p>The three aspects of social media that I'd like to view as qualitative departures from the past are:</p><ol><li>'The End of Channels' in that online conversations happen all over the place;</li><li>'The Wisdom of the Crowd', social software helping people navigate their way through online coversations;</li><li>The participatory and co-creational nature of social media. </li></ol><p /> 9 application/xml false distributed conversations end of channels wisdom of crowds Three aspects of social media are truely qualitative departures from the past. http://www.josschuurmans.com/2007/09/the-dilution-of.html Posts Categorized as "conversation" http://www.josschuurmans.com/conversation/ A published article is no longer the start of a discussion, nor does its channel any longer host that discussion. A published article contributes to The Conversation around the topic at hand (which in most cases was already taking place in various shapes elsewhere) and which can unfold in a thousand different directions in conversation threads across the Web and over time. Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 aseidl 68.40.167.222 192677 false true false false true 174050 blog blogsite/Blogsite/moderated