LIBR 246-04/13 Web 2.0 (Fall 2010)

Funny Dilbert comic strips.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-09-13/

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-09-14/

These made me laugh. I think the author is poking fun of social media use by businesses. I wanted to share this with everyone here, since we're all learning about social media and all. ^_^

Roy's "Social Media Disasters" states that a productive and speedy response to a disaster is "to buy and own unsavory keywords so that people searching for those videos and articles will see links to your official response". I am not quite sure what s/he means by "buying" and "owning" keywords, but it strikes me as specious. Owning (i.e. controlling) the means of communication seems counter to the populist and intellectually free foundational concepts that many tout the internet to embody.