No I haven’t forgot about the little endeavour I launched in May: I started thinking we need someplace to just try stuff. If it works, then great: we can replicate it on our own sites or even develop something more permanent, public, and professional. If it doesn’t work, then that’s ok too: without actually losing [...]
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Yesterday I noticed a couple of announcements for London social media events in the fall: a Twitter 101 TechAlliance Breakfast Club on October 14 starring @billdeys, @ericablonde, and @titusferguson a social media [un]conference for the arts community promoted by @adamcaplan, @titusferguson, and @billdeys (from what I understand at this early stage — let me know if I [...]
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During the weekend I spent some time writing yet another criticism of old media protectionism. I called it, “Because You Wouldn’t Go to a ‘Citizen Prostitute’ for Sex, Would You?”… this is the tame version. What so many protectionists miss is that telling stories and getting to the bottom of things are basic human motives [...]
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There’s been a lot of press for Alison Gopnik’s new book, The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life. Via Bookforum, here’s my lazy way of linking to this review … (and more and more and more and more and more and more). And here’s a short video. Here’s also an opinion piece at the New [...]
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I’ve sort of been on vacation so I’m a little late with this. Here’s Paul Romer making his case for charter cities: The TED Blog (via Design Thinking) conveys the gist better than I possibly could. It’s about making ways to change the rules: China, he says, demonstrates both the strengths and weaknesses of working with rules. [...]
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This is going to be a big theme for me in the near future… … the Web’s infinite niches make for richer possibilities for identity construction—it creates, as it were, a bubble in personal identity. We thereby need a platform where our social production—in this case, of our own identity—can be consumed, where the value [...]
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Who’s responsible for the “inspiration deficit” in Canadian politics? Why of course, blame the young: The young reject the political status quo, as they should, but they are too lazy to do anything about it. Most of the under-25s don’t even bother to vote. Instead of fighting for change, they wallow in their vanities and [...]
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by Brian on 08-10-2009
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When David Armano posted this visual in January I laughed, then wondered where I fit. “Obviously I converted to social media long ago and quickly skipped past zealotry, and self-righteousness to become an evolving believer…” Well, um, looking back it is clear I still had some self-righteous jerkiness to get out of my system and I’m [...]
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Just like last year I’ll be away from blogging for the first part of August. I’ll still be using email and Facebook… I think I might actually use Facebook more than I have before. My brother is getting married on Saturday so this is a perfect time to focus on the more ‘real’ and fundamental, interpersonal [...]
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