Social media’s struggles sum up a modern malaise: the inability to recognise value beyond market-driven metricsNumbers are great,aren’t they? Just behold at all the things you can do with them. You can add, subtract, and divide. You can calculate the number of atoms in the known,observable universe, or the times you had to inquire of your daughter to tidy her room; exercise them to order more than one pizza, and underestimate the pace of global warming or exaggerate the size of things as various as planets and fish that got away. For quantitative assessment,numbers rule. Related: Jack Dorsey has an impossible task: to invent Twitter better Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com