I recently visited Toronto for the first time in eight years and got the chance to spend some time with an old friend at his house.  Eventually, I perused his main media collections:  Books, CD, DVD and Games and this helped me understand how his taste has developed since we last saw each other and gave us a springboard for shared experiences. 

This browsing and judging as it were reminded me that this is actually a very common nature and in many ways it’s helped us over the years understand if we’re generally going to like someone or not.  If the CD collection had more Kenny G over Miles Davis, you knew it was time to call time and make your departure fairly swiftly.

Heck, even the organisation of media was a big thing.  Did you do A-Z by Author, Chaos Theory, or Dewey Decimal. 

Actually, a rival in winning my fair wife’s hand lost significant points for his incessant and rather gruff need to re-order her book collection A-Z by Title!

Anyway, this all had me think that actually the demise of physical media is going to have an everlasting impact on this behaviour and I for one am very sad it won’t be long before I will be able to walk into someone’s house, look at shelves and judge that person!

Posted via email from Simon Baptist’s Posterous

LSS@Social Media Week:  The Science of Social Media

It could be said that most people have faith that Social Media is more than a new hype bubble. While faith alone isn’t a bad thing, we plan to add some reason as we explore the Science of Social Media

LSS@Social Media Week is brought to you by:

Confirmed Speakers:

• Dr. Bernie Hogan from the Oxford Internet Institute – Bernie will taking time out from his busy teaching and media schedule to present his latest research into the emerging issue of social information overload and effective methodologies for leveraging online interactions and new media in everyday life.
• Stephen Leighton owner of Has Bean Coffee: http://www.hasbean.co.uk/ – A conversation with the up and coming UK and coffee’s answer to Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library and Crushit)
• Paul McCrudden - from Imagination & #6weeks fame, will share insights and knowledge from how consumers are interacting with brands
• Carolyn Watt, Founder and Managing Director of Yabber, Profero’s digital PR and social media division will be presenting an exciting case study

When: Thursday, 4th February 2010, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Where: The Hospital Club (http://www.thehospitalclub.com/)

Social Media Week: The second annual conference will take place between February 1st – 5th, 2010 simultaneously in New York City, Berlin, London, San Francisco, Toronto and São Paulo. The five day conference will explore the profound impact that social media has on culture, business communications and society at large.

More Details & Register:

For more details click here to go to the event page and you can get your tickets through the eventbrite ticket microsite.