Tom Lehrer on Social Media and Viral Media

Thursday, October 30. 2008

Tom Lehrer on Social Media and Viral Media

Tom Lehrer was a mathematics lecturer at Harvard, UC Santa Cruz and at MIT, where he taught game theory and related mathematical modelling in the Political Science department. He is also a writer of satirical songs, and here is his ouvre that applies to some of the fluffier stuff going on in Social Media today today:

First, on Social Media:

And then, on Viral media.

One wonders what he would do with todays' Social Media scene....

Posted by Alan Patrick in Social Networks at 12:42 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0) | Top Exits (0)

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I am deeply guilty of the first accusation. But I know that I shouldn't be.

#1 Mat Morrison (Homepage) on 2008-10-30 14:07 (Reply)

Oh, me too - the lines at the end about consultants are classic

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But if I were to hoist myself on my owwn petard, this would be the preferred musical accompaniment

#2 alan p on 2008-10-30 14:50 (Reply)

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