Robert Scoble on social media

I was going to write a post about the virtues of social media…but stumbled across a post of Robert Scoble’s (formerly of Microsoft, now with PodTech) that I think does a great job of summarizing some of the rocking-est benefits of these new media: blogs, wikis, RSS, etc.

There’s one thing I don’t agree with…let’s not call it Media 2.0. The 2.0 thing is getting tired. I actually like social media. It’s descriptive. We can interact with new media in ways we couldn’t with traditional media (newspapers, TV, radio, magazines, etc.). Readers, viewers, and listeners can be more involved with media like blogs…it’s immediate…I can post a comment, check out the popularity of a post, etc.

This to say: I’m happy with the term social media. You?