{"id":7064,"date":"2009-02-24T09:23:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7064"},"modified":"2009-02-24T09:25:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T16:25:07","slug":"the-participatory-internet-is-a-singularity-not-a-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7064\/the-participatory-internet-is-a-singularity-not-a-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"The participatory internet is a singularity, not a trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Referring back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7044\" target=\"_blank\">the Boojum under the bed<\/a>, this is me in email to a Realtor Association executive:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not to be flip, but I don&#8217;t want any group of any sort to do anything at all with social media. The first totally disintermediated business in the history of business is communication. Social media will not work for groups because there <em>are<\/em> no groups &#8212; only individuals. If you approach Web 2.0 as a new way of doing the same old things, you will miss out&#160;on everything that is amazing and&#160;wonderful and liberating about our world.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a trend. This is a singularity. The old models no longer apply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/disintermediation\" rel=\"tag\">disintermediation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/technology\" rel=\"tag\">technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Referring back to the Boojum under the bed, this is me in email to a Realtor Association executive: Not to be flip, but I don&#8217;t want any group of any sort to do anything at all with social media. The first totally disintermediated business in the history of business is communication. Social media will not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,30,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-supplanting-the-nar","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":183,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/183\/christmas-in-august-for-some-three-years-of-excuses-for-most\/","url_meta":{"origin":7064,"position":0},"title":"Christmas in August for some, three years of excuses for most . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Apple's World Wide Developer Conference commences today. 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