links for 2011-04-07

The Big Society thesis is – to use a disparaging term used by economists – ‘not good enough to be wrong’. This means it doesn’t even assert something which could be proven to be false, let alone something which could be shown to be true.

At the Facebook “show and tell” session it was pretty much agreed that all sites would need to integrate the “like” button at the very least – and that a Facebook page is probably a must. For any serious site that produces a lot of content, there is a big question as to how much of that content you feed into the Facebook beast – and how much you keep as an incentive to get people out of Facebook.