Is all technology socially disruptive in a bad way?

May 15th, 2007 by erik

Ken Banks, an old friend, send me a Skype message tonight that he had mentioned me in his blog. Thanks Ken! You can read his entry here.
It got my mind starting to think about technology and the impacts of technology on communities. Is all technology socially disruptive in a bad way?
The importance of interfaces between [...]

Social communities, Technology | No Comments |

Dealing with Trolls

May 6th, 2007 by erik

One of Sweden’s biggest blogger – Linda Skugge – has decided she is fed up with the trolls and all the negative, offensive and rude comments she has gotten from her “readers”, so she will stop blogging. I do think it is sad that people choose that option. I got me thinking of the [...]

Internet, new media, social media | No Comments |

The media landscape is changing…

May 3rd, 2007 by erik

If anyone doubted that the media landscape is drastically changing and that we will see new outlets should definitely take a look at the article in todays Guardian – We all helped to speed the demise of professional photographers. I don’t fully agree with the title of the article as the future media scene will [...]

Internet, Technology, new media, social media | No Comments |

About Erik Sundelöf

  • Erik Sundelof is the Chief Technical Officer of Spot.Us. Erik was previously the co-founder and VP of Social Media and User Interface at San Francisco based Allvoices, Inc. Allvoices is a new content-based social network around news and opinions which currently is the biggest citizen news media site on the web. It became one of the 3000 largest sites on the Internet within 6 months of launch. Erik was previously a fellow in the Reuters Digital Vision Program (http://www.rdvp.org) at Stanford University between 2005-2006. Most notably he created the Web site inthefieldONLINE.net, which was recognized by major global media including PBS, CNN and BBC, and got featured on Discovery International's Rewind 2006 as one of 25 highlights of the Year. He is active in the social media arena and has directed the launch of several social media sites including the biggest blog in Sweden during 2005-2007. Erik is a prolific blogger on issues related to social and user-generated media, group dynamics, cellphone technology and community building. His academic orientations are rooted in a Master?s degree in Chemical Engineering and PhD licentiate in Numerical Analysis from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

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