Comments on: McLuhan’s Tetrad in Social Media

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By: mike

mike — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:43:31 +0000

Has anyone done a tetrad of the scientific method?

By: Igor The Troll

Igor The Troll — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:41:49 +0000

Dan, power of knowledge is more dangerous than money and bombs. I rather have power in the hands of a few than power be abused by many.
But when the few abusing the power the many unite to check the power.

Same like all revolutions!

By: Robert K. Blechman

Robert K. Blechman — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:53:32 +0000

Hi Dan,

I am doing research comparing McLuhan’s Tetrad to Claude Levi-Strauss’s Canonical Formula. You can find my discussion at http://robertkblechman.blogspot.com/2008/01/four-play-mcluhans-tetrad-and-lvi.html

Bob Blechman

By: Dan Zarrella

Dan Zarrella — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:35:02 +0000

Igor, I probably agree with you too, but would you agree that fragmentation leads to loss of power for the “few” if only by a reduction in the scarcity of power users?

By: Igor The Troll

Igor The Troll — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:14:07 +0000

Sorry Dan, I have to disagree with you here. It is becoming very fragmented and power does reside with a few, the rest are the colective.

Power users are really powerful, even more powerful than CEO’s of corporations!

People do listen to us, and we do influence communities.

But how does one become a power user and what will that power user use his or her power for?

By: Dan Zarrella

Dan Zarrella — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:18:55 +0000

In a conversation I’m having on Twitter, its become apparent that the bigger the audience on a social news site, the better the “filtering”, and people often leave social news sites due to lack of users.

So perhaps fragmentation beyond usability is not the path we’re on?

By: Ray Grieselhuber

Ray Grieselhuber — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:20:05 +0000

Great post. It seems that we’re on the same wavelength on a number of issues.

It will be interesting to see if the meta-search engines like Google will be able to provide the same level of quality and relevance across these various, fragmented niche sites. I don’t think they will be able to, and I even wonder if any of this stuff will be “aggregate-able” in the long term.

It’s amazing how prescient McLuhan was at times.