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Interesting piece about a Lisbon-based online newspaper that is turning the design of papers upside down.
[via www.editorsweblog.org]
What i is doing differently
I is not structured like a traditional paper. The paper's team worked with media consultancy Innovation to come up with a new way to organise the product. [...]
Trust in Internet, Online Reviews, Blogs
Gen-Y women are technologically savvy, and their perception of the world around them has been shaped by the Internet. They are more likely than their Gen-X counterparts to turn to online peers—reviewers, bloggers, or contributors—for information, even if they don't have a personal relationship with [...]
Algorithmic authority is the decision to regard as authoritative an unmanaged process of extracting value from diverse, untrustworthy sources, without any human standing beside the result saying “Trust this because you trust me.” This model of authority differs from personal or institutional authority, and has, I think, three critical characteristics. [...]
One group of companies assume that some people know they can’t help themselves, and therefore want a service to automatically disable their cellphone when it is in a moving car.
But other companies say the habit can be made safer with hands-free technology. [...]
In two recent posts (Typepad Goes After Tumblr, A Call For Interoperable Tumbling: Tumbleback) I explored the idea of cross-platform tumbling.
In particular, I suggested a construct I called 'tumblebacks' as part of reblogging, based on an analogy with trackbacks. But I left out the issue of cross-platform [...]
reblogged from roomthily from Tumblr:
22,837,511,120 kg for 570,937,778 computers (assuming 40kg per computer including monitor) 1,754,809,310kg for 175,480,931 servers 87,000,000kg+ for cables (the tat-14 cable linking the u.s. to europe) 6,075,000kg for 42 million iphones 6,800,000kg for 50 million blackberriesand 287,524 viruses for 85 billion+ web pages.
via CNET UK[These are the prepared notes for my introductory remarks for yesterday's Get Real Show, largely derived form a report I wrote for Cutter a few years ago, called Time to Get Real: Growing the Real Time Enterprise (still seems fresh though).]
To imagine a zero [...]
In an earlier post today, regarding Typepad's release of Micro, a new 'micro blogging' implementation on the Typepad platform, I called for interoperable tumbling between blog platforms:
[via www.stoweboyd.com]
Reblog is not built in to every blog, so even if I am an active Typepad Micro user, I can't reblog every [...]
Six Apart has made an announcement of new capabilities for Typepad:
[via Announcing TypePad Micro]As part of our ongoing rollout of the NEW TypePad we are pleased to announce new social blogging features and the launch of TypePad Micro: a completely free level of TypePad focused on easy sharing of text, photos, and videos.
A [...]
The industrial influence in business management and theory is profound. In essence, for the past hundred years business has been objectified as a machine, divided into various components, like a clock or an electric generator. Components are composed of subcomponents, and so on, until you get down to nuts, bolts, [...]
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After talking with an entrepreneur who was having trouble articulating the vision for his start up, it occurred to me that it might be fun to host a twitter stream of 140-character elevator pitches. After thinking about it a bit I concluded that someone must have thought of it before, which led me [...]
Chris Messina, well known for creating the hashtag (see Chris Messina on Twitter Tags) has some more ideas up his sleeve. Recall that when Chris suggested the hashtag, back in 2007, he intended to be used in a somewhat different way than it has evolved to: these things rapidly [...]
I have only fooled with Twitter's list a bit, but I am starting to get an insight to how they could allow me to fine tune the early warning system and social hot tub that Twitter principally is for me.
Yes, I have created a handful of lists, but mostly they [...]
First time I tried the app, tracking chatter with my pay, @euan, and he and I have have had just too many tweets since we started. I hazard this will be unusable for anyone with a long history, since the [...]
At the end of a series of interviews and an equally wide exploration of new thinking on the future of money, I find my thoughts line up pretty closely with those of author Neal Stephenson in a 2005 Slashdot interview:
[via interviews.slashdot.org]
7) Money - by querencia
[...]I heard Santiago Siri present at the Techcrunch 50 event a month or so ago, and I thought that his WhuffieBank project would be a good fit with the Future Of Money series.
The project is an ambitious one: it seeks to quantify connection and to derive a monetary value [...]
Brian Solis dedicates far too much text to the topic of news embargoes, while coming to a status quo ante result on their future:
[via www.briansolis.com]The reality is that embargoes are an important and fundamental part of the news ecosystem. They mustn’t lose their stature. As such, it is the [...]
I am happy to announce that Alan Viars will be heading up a new project for Microsyntax.org, called Open Mobile Health Exchange:
via www.microsyntax.orgOMHE (Open Mobile Health Exchange), pronounced “ooommm” is an open-source microsyntax for medical devices, and other “short text capable” systems. OMHE is used for sending blood pressure, blood glucose, weight, [...]
via www.dagerot.com
[...]Seth Godin recently wrote a post which hinges on Dunbar's Number. Seth started out by misstating what Dunbar's Number is, and then goes off the rails, predictably:
[via Dunbar's Number isn't just a number, it's the law]
Dunbar's number is 150.
And he's not compromising, no matter how much you whine about' [...]
It's almost a letdown to get access to Twitter lists at this point, since people are starting to gripe about them.
It warms my hard old heart to see this sort of response to my 10 minute talk at 140 Characters this week:
[My slides and notes from today's talk at 140 Characters Conference in LA. It was a ten minute sprint, so I didn't get to elaborate the various points very deeply.]
I want to paint a quick picture of what I believe we will see emerge' [...]
Facebook is just a social phenomenon to me, since I stopped using it months ago. One interesting aspect of the Facebook mess is the contempt the company seems to have for it's user community. Witness the most recent fooforaw regrading the new UI just rolled out:
[via [...]I guess the Dachis folks are getting some push back on the use of the 'social business' and 'social business design' handles to characterize the impacts of social tools on business.
[via Defining Social Business Design: Style vs. Substance by Peter Kim]For the most [...]
A piece in the NYTimes about real-time search, yields this one liner.
[via Ping - How High Will Real-Time Search Fly? - NYTimes.com by Miguel Helft]Google wants the Twitter data primarily because its mission is to be comprehensive: Google wants [...]
In a recent piece at Wired, Steven Levy talks about the microsyntactic conventions that make Twitter what it is:
[via Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter]Twitter’s evolution spawned a new grammar, and the Twitter community created many of the [...]
We make a virtue of ignorance. How many so called “social media experts” have read any network theory? We think we’re so smart. How may social [...]
A recent NY Times piece about Nokia underscores how lost the company seems to be:
[Nokia Struggles to Regain Market Share in U.S. by Kevin O'Brien]Nokia, the Finnish company that is the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, is an' [...]
Seth seems unmoved by Twitter, or maybe doesn't like the 'cool kids' that seem to jam its hallways.
[via Seth's Blog: The Rule of High School]Any sufficiently overheated industry will eventually resemble high school. High school is filled with insecurity, social climbing, backbiting,' [...]
It seems almost innocuous, a toss-off line at the end of a Public Editor piece by Clark Hoyt in the NY Times, dealing with questions about quoting anonymous sources:
The Public Editor - Fairness and the Accused - [...][via Top 5 Twitter Trends to Watch Right Now]
"Twitter is a great place to tell the world what you’re thinking before you’ve had a chance to think about it." - Chris Pirillo [...]Over at the Enterprise 2.0 blog, I write about The Death Of Email: What Does Dead Mean, Exactly?.
There has been a great deal of discussion about email recently. I think the proximate cause is the arrival of Google Wave, which is being heralded like the coronation [...]The winding down of the Condé Nast magazine empire is showing some strange thinking at Wired, which is supposed to be all about the future. Shouldn't they being doubling down on the web as ad revenues in print are collapsing? But the company is laying off resources working on the' [...]
Was pinged by @daveyarmon that Joe Ciarallo of PRNewser had riffed on my recent post about Cision's spam business which Chris Kenton first howled about:
[via PR Spam Can Be Annoying, But It's Not Illegal]Blogger and technologist [...]
A recent tweet by Dave winer made me realize I had completely missed Technorati launching a new strategy.
Dave tweeted this:
davewiner: In the new scheme Technorati rates my blog a on a scale of 1 to 1000. Gulp. http://r2.ly/pe2gI went and looked: /Message now has an authority of 592, which is [...]
I got an email from Chris Kenton, describing some seriously unethical, and perhaps illegal, behavior at Cision, the folks behind The Media Map. Apparently, Chris receive spam sent to an email account he has never given out for any marketing purpose. He backtracked, and a contact at the company that [...]
Jamais Cascio is one of the world's leading futurists, and spared me some time a few weeks ago to talk about money, especially alternative cash.
Some highlights:
Jamais starts by stating that "All money is a fantasy," and then sets the stage for the problem for local, alternative money: you have to [...]I am not tremendously organized. I am what is called a 'scruffy' when it comes to personal organization:
[via 3 Life Meta Hacks: Erosion, Streams, And Piles]Scruffies don't organize everything: they are "data-driven", using their environment to channel their work, like the piles of' [...]
Why does the wifi at conferences always suck? Joel Spolsky knows and tells all:
[via The “WiFi At Conferences” Problem - Joel on Software]At the smaller conferences, the ones with, say, 300-1000 people, the trouble is that internet access is something [...]
After a month off the project, because of the press of other work, I am back to The Future Of Money. In this episode, I speak with Joe Edelman about his Groundcrew project, intended to help the coordination of community activities, including 'an economy of gifts, sharing and neighborly aid.'
From [...]
In his final column in the Observer on Management, Simon Caulkin suggests that the past decade's excesses have led to a wholesale failure in management:
[Simon Caulkin: Farewell, with a last word on the blunder years [...]Updated: 10/10/2009 12:35 PM PDT
T-MOBILE AND MICROSOFT/DANGER STATUS UPDATE ON SIDEKICK DATA DISRUPTION
Dear valued T-Mobile Sidekick customers:
T-Mobile and the Sidekick data services provider, Danger, a subsidiary of Microsoft, are reaching out to express our apologies regarding the recent Sidekick data service [...]
Publish2 and two other companies were honored with awards from the Online Journalism Foundation:
[via Publish2, My Ballard and Gotham Gazette recognized with inaugural Online Journalism Awards]A collection of linking tools that enables journalists [...]
I am not attending the upcoming EComm conference, but it looks like Lee Dryburgh has really stuck his head into the Google Wave Koolaid punch bowl.
[via email]Organiser Message
During the past few months, I’ve received growing requests for opinions on Twitter. However I’ve been taking the position for sometime now that [...]
I have fallen into a Twitter rabbit hole.
For the past few hours I have not been getting the status updates of the 900+ folks that I am following:
Meanwhile, when I check if these folks have been tweeting, they have.
So, for some reason, [...]
Condé Nast closed down a bunch of magazines recently, and Gourmet was one of the group. It closes with a groan, like an old house settling, and commentators who are looking for a villain in this drama have many to chose from. Christopher Kimball blames blogging:
[via [...]The mess that is boiling out of the Obama administration's Recovery.gov website is laughable, considering the transparency and openness that Obama pledged to create.
Propublica is all over this:
[via Obama Administration Redacts Contract Details for Recovery.gov by Christopher Flavelle].
Back in July, [...]
The recent announcement by Pierre Far at Cli.gs that the company would be shutting down its URL shortening service raises questions about the viability of this sort of company.
As Far said,
Short URLs are a feature, and are definitely not a business on their own. This assertion is fact [...]I have been thinking a great deal about the application of the open follower model (a la Twitter) to the emerging social business. My intuitive sense has been that there are many ways that people use Twitter, and these could be discovered by various kinds of statistical analysis, but otherwise [...]
In a 2007 study on global risks, a group working on behalf of the World Economic Forum identified a collection of highly interconnected risk factors, and explored various scenarios in which these factors often influenced each other and in some cases amplified the effects of others.
I have been splitting my time between my legal residence in Reston VA and a toehold in the heart of SOMA in San Francisco for the past three years. At first, I would simply travel to San Francisco when necessary for client meetings, conferences, and other tech doings. I began [...]
