Social Media Links for August 7th through August 24th:

• Social Media at 52 degrees north :: interactivecultures – Report on visit to Birmingham by South African academic Marlon Parker. From our sister blog, http://interactivecultures.org.
• A podcast about podcasting :: interactivecultures – The team discuss podcasting, a much misunderstood concept. From our sister blog, http://interactivecultures.org.
• Us & Our iPhones – Over on our sister blog, the Interactive Cultures team discuss iPhones. They try really hard to be clever about it too.
• Webometric Thoughts: Social Media Non-Adopters: Engagement v. Exposure – During a recent Black Country social Media Cafe we were supposed to address technology non-adoption, and ended up instead discussing re-tweet etiquette.
• The Guardian | Read it and weep: Evan Williams of Twitter on Newsnight – the transcript – Transcript of interview with Evan Williams of Twitter, which less than impressed the Guardian’s writer.
• Top 100 Best Social Media Books, Ever « Mellow Billow – Not sure I really agree with this list but it’s interesting none the less. I guess it’s too much to think they might have drawn in books from the wider web studies and media studies tradition which have an awful lot to say about social media.