January 2009
43 posts
Detroit Should Get Cracking on its Googlemobile -... →
Big, involved piece featuring Jeff Jarvis’s upcoming book What Would Google Do? …recommended!
Can’t wait to dig through all the extra content…
ABC Says Web Viewers Will Tolerate Twice the Ads -... →
Hilarious!
MyAds - Online Advertising and MySpace Ads →
File under “24-36 months too late”
“The global economy is defined by scarcity in resources, production, and...”
– Arguing From First Principles | Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing
Read that a couple of times, an then read it again. And again ;-)
Abandon Stocks, Embrace Flows →
WatchWhen games become voting games, cooperative outcomes take on a new status, says Brams. “The idea is, if you don’t have a sufficient number, nobody pays, and everybody suffers. If you have a sufficient number, everybody pays…and you get the cooperative outcome. There aren’t in-between outcomes where some pay and some don’t, and the ones that don’t pay make out like bandits. That’s what voting does...
“I am in awe of the fact that this country has elected this man, and yet I feel...”
– Doc Searls Weblog · Same old blog, brand new place
WORD.
“As it continues to become more important to monetize intangible assets,...”
– The New Reality: Constant Disruption - The Big Shift - HarvardBusiness.org
Hagel, et al, reply in the comments!
“Once businesses learn to harness the disruptive elements of today’s...”
– “The New Reality: Constant Disruption” - The Big Shift - HarvardBusiness.org
The title of this article (which kicks off a new blog from two of my favorites, John Seely Brown and John Hagel), sums it all up succinctly.
We now face something entirely different. Today’s core...
“Blog commenting is not a niche,” he says. “Social activity on blogs...”
– Want Proof OpenID Can Succeed? Just Scroll Down | Epicenter from Wired.com
Here, I find yet another excuse to steer the discussion towards how context is king.
“‘It’s different this time,’ by the way, are the four most...”
– Delicious Bookmarks for December 4th through December 8th | StraussBlog
Pithy!
“…without integrated programs and more value add, display alone is not a...”
– Is It Time To Switch Ad Partners?
PR vs. Media Buying, John Battelle edition.
(Thanks, John! ;-)
“A month ago Justin Kistner (@justinkistner) kicked off an email conversation...”
– Social capital isn’t new, but everything about it is. | Unstructured Thoughts by Taylor Davidson
Me, too!
Give this one a look, it’s a great meditation on social capital with an amazing bibliography.
Distinguishing decorative from meaningful elements... →
Interface design has a lot of great lessons for people that need to think about choice architecture (i.e. the design of social systems and organizations).
“A friend of tech and the Internet and the startup ecosystem running the FCC....”
– This News Made Me Smile A Mile Wide
“Boo-ya”, as they say.
;-)
How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any... →
I’m pretty blown away that Marshall spilled the beans on these tricks (many of which I learned from Marshall’s friend Justin Kistner)…but I guess that’s his gig ;-)
This is, without question, the most useful blog post written about anything having to do with online communications in the last 4 years (i.e. since I’ve been paying attention ;-)
Secretary of the Arts Petition →
Please reblog:
Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts. While many other countries have had Ministers of Art or Culture for centuries, The United States has never created such a position. We in the arts need this and the country needs the arts—now more than ever. Please take a moment to sign this important petition and then pass...
Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: Brokerage and... →
Some really forward thinking on social capital and network dynamics (John Hagel reviews Ronald Burt’s book Brokerage and Closure).
Directionality
but attention doesn’t scale consumption doesn’t scale these days the people ain’t buying the winner isn’t the ad-drunk stuff-sellers it’s the people who wake up in their max’d credit haze to having less to needing less ignoring ads when they don’t want them not needing to buy to be happy finding their worth outside the satisfaction of stuff more smiles...
“All organizations have values; the only question is how explicit they are about...”
– Amazon.com: Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People: Charles A. O’Reilly: Books
(via Venture Hacks)
One Take On What The Singularity Really Means
Imagine if everyone outsourced their life to the point where our personal lives access the same economies of scale that companies create. Originally posted as a comment by Taylor Davidson on Igniter using Disqus.
A User's Guide to 21st Century Economics →
Ironic Journalism 101
From Fortune: “Eric Schmidt wishes he could rescue newspapers”
Eric Schmidt: I think the solution is tighter integration [with newspapers]. In other words, we can do this without making an acquisition. The term I’ve been using is ‘merge without merging.’ The Web allows you to do that, where you can get the Web systems of both organizations fairly well integrated,...
“The Viable Systems Model, or VSM is a model of the organisational structure of...”
– Viable System Model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Man, THAT is interesting. Can’t wait to read up on this further.
Social Media Monitoring and Engagement in the... →
“I believe social interaction could have rule engines. Etiquette is programmable.”
– Justin Kistner - The Lord Matt Borg attempts to automate social interaction
Q: How futuristic is this?
A: Not very.
Justin has said something to the effect of: “Whoever makes the etiquette API will get rich.” I agree.
Adverse Selection, Incentive, and Idiocracy
What happens if we take the idea of incentives being exchanged for EVERYTHING we do to the extreme (non-likely) conclusion? What happens when we’ve all given away information and gotten burned? What happens if we have ALL been scammed, hacked or phished? Originally posted as a comment by Taylor Davidson on Ethan Bauley Dot Com using Disqus.
Foodie at Fifteen (now 16) →
File under “amazing blog written by a teenager”. Here’s a really good restaurant/meal review.
Anyone care to get media-tech philosophical about this?
What happens when 10 year olds write blogs?
(via @ethank)
“Sweepery makes it easy for businesses to create online giveaways.
Incentives...”
– Sweepery – About
File under “Is this VRM?”
VRM in 2009 →
“The early investors came in with a zero pre-money valuation, but the founders...”
– First correct guess as to what company this is wins a special prize…
(If I emailed you this quote beforehand, you’re disqualified ;-)
“we have two locations at CES this year, and 4 of us are going to the show. but...”
– boxee blog » last-minute opportunity for boxee users at CES
Great idea…
Attention: Controlling Your Attention is the New... →
I just discovered this about 6 months ago but am still learning the ropes…
“[Facebook] has one big dig against it. It’s not profitable and self...”
– Things I Wish For In The New Year
This is exactly why I constantly criticize Facebook. It’s for the greater good! ;-)