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Ryan J. Davis is the 30 year-old Executive Director of Social Innovation at Blue State Digital. He's also the co-founder of The Four 2012.

He sits on the Broad of Directors of The Ali Forney Center, where he is the founding producer of their annual Broadway Beauty Pageant fundraiser. He's also on the Board of Directors of The Deconstructive Theatre Project and the Board of Advisers of the startup TV Dinner.

He's also a director/producer, who lives in Brooklyn, NY and created the musical White Noise. Ryan writes about politics for The Huffington Post & The Hill. He has been a guest editor for Queerty and is the host of the podcast Gay History: Uncut.

Here Ryan blogs about politics, film, TV, history, religion, science, books, theater, digital media, LGBT issues, Bushwick & Williamsburg, New York City, and anything else he's interested in at the moment. Oh, and he'll probably talk a lot about himself.

This is a personal blog. Any opinions expressed here and on my Twitter represent my own and not those of my employer or clients.

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Posts tagged "Instagram"

Here’s a current example of the challenge we face - At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only 13 people. Where did all those jobs disappear? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?

Jaron Lanier

A collection of graffiti and street art from Brooklyn (Bushwick & Williamsburg) that I’ve captured on Instagram so far this year.

This is a much more sane look at the Instagram TOS mess. EVERYONE CALM DOWN. →

I’ve been working on a Teddy Roosevelt Instagram contest with The American Museum of Natural History. Print out Teddy and take a picture of him in nature for a chance to win a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum. Enter here!

Check out my entry from Costa Rica.

lambjustin Asks:

With the Instagram fire being fueled by the Facebook acquisition, where does that leave Twitter? I myself started using it more (as I'm sure you did) because I think it's inevitable that photos will become the new status update on Facebook. Is text going out as a means of "updating" people with what you're doing? If a picture is worth athousand words, do 140 matter?

ryanjdavis Said:

It’s a great question and one that Twitter has clearly thought about, since reports surfaced they were interested in acquiring Instagram too.

Images have rapidly become the lifeblood of social media, they are the most favored content syndicated the Facebook News Feed and have spawned other image-centric networks like Pinterest and Tumblr.

Twitter has tried to incentivize picture sharing, updating their website functionality and integrating with iPhone’s camera. To some extent, they’ve been successful. Instagrams make great Twitter content and are now responsible for the largest percentage of images shared over Twitter. So its growth has so far been a net positive for Twitter.

I was talking about Twitter’s future with a digital director of a large organization a few days ago and he convinced me that Twitter’s space as a real time news and information service has yet to be challenged.

As long as Twitter maintains it’s hold on journalists and other news makers, it will keep an influential active audience. It’s too early to be talking about the decline of a channel that sees over 340 million tweets a day, up from 230 million tweets a day in September.

So until something else comes along, I’m gonna keep tweeting.

Photo by William Beasley.

Some of my favorite Instagrams, that I took around Bushwick this weekend.