Why the Guardian’s ‘Matrix’ analogy fails. Nothing much happens in the UK and the country has very little impact on the outside world. At least, that’s the false belief you could come to if you never went to the UK and never learned anything about how the world works. Likewise, if you never visited Google+ and didn’t learn how it really works, you could conclude that the network has “little visible engagement, pretty much no impact on the outside world,” as Guardian writer Charles Arthur has done in a misleading column recently. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2013/jun/04/google-plus-the-matrix There are two kinds of writers who comment on Google+’s “impact”: Those who use it and learn how massive its impact is and those who don’t use it and ignorantly conclude from their own non-use that nothing is going on. Arthur, who hasn’t posted anything on Google+ for two years, makes the classic Arthur Spooner error, which I described here. https://plus.google.com/113117251731252...
