Late last night I had a serious lapse of faith in social media — as we all must from time to time. We should have serious doubts questions about this stuff… Which is why I chuckle whenever I read editorials merely pointing out “there are hazards” and digitization “isn’t all good” — as if any [...]
Tagged as: change, communication, community, criticism, deliberation, democracy, epistemology, openness, philosophy, pragmatism, social media, society, technology, transparency, web, will to believe, william james
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Selection is a natural; so is categorizing; so is ranking; so is list-making. We owe a lot of great things to the human tendency to rank & classify. We wouldn’t have science (and therefore we wouldn’t have a whole bunch of other things)… Think of biology and chemistry. Unfortunately, it also means discriminating. A list isn’t so much about [...]
Tagged as: classification, discipline, expertise, mastery, networks, process, selection, signalling, social media, storytelling, systems, twitter, twitter lists, web
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Few people would disagree that as more brands & memes vie for our attention, the simple act of communicating has become an accelerating arms race. We shouldn’t necessarily complain. Not more than a decade ago it would have been impossible for most of us to get any kind of public attention for our products or [...]
Tagged as: attention, cultural evolution, development, generativity, history, learning, open/conceptual, politics, public relations, public sphere, social media, web
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by Brian on 10-23-2009
Part of a new series I’m starting to explore social, creative, and economic opportunities specific to London Ontario. Recently I posted about the benefits of educating citizens to think like journalists. Since then I found a lot of great examples of a collaborative approach to journalism — not just between professionals and amateurs, but between [...]
Tagged as: cities, collaboration, conversation, cooperation, journalism, news, opportunity, organizations, social media, web
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With so many people claiming to be social media experts we just as often hear “there are no social media experts.” There certainly are a lot of people who can generate a whole bunch of verbiage, but social media presents such an all-encompassing, massive and dynamic shift that the “social media expert” label makes about [...]
Tagged as: careers, discipline, epistemology, expertise, knowledge, professions, social media, society, web
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I’m becoming more promiscuous as a content-producer. Several people have joked about how many blogs I have going. Then Bill suggested I should publish an all-in-one feed. I decided to set up a few more while I was at it. Most are now listed on a new Subscribe page. First I burned a new topic-specific feed. [...]
Tagged as: blogging, feedburner, feeds, friendfeed, publishing, rss, social media, web, yahoo pipes
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At the London Free Press, Ian Gillespie warns of the hazards of the internet: Watching that 90-second video [here], it’s hard — no, make that impossible — to see or know exactly what’s going on. But that hasn’t stopped tens of thousands (by late yesterday afternoon, the video had been viewed more than 30,000 times [...]
Tagged as: blogging, citizen journalism, dialogue, news, newspapers, web
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Brogan says it’s ok to do these so, ok, here’s the best of my posts about London Ontario so far. I noticed when I started putting them together they sort of make a case… but you’ll have to create your own adventure! First, some background criticism on our mostly unconnected city: Should London Exist? Ontario [...]
Tagged as: cities, digital media, london, london ontario, london's social media mafia, open democracy, podcamp london, politics, social media, web
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I’ve been meaning to do one of these Open Yale Courses online for a while. I’d love to watch Robert Shiller’s course in financial markets (I think Shiller is great but I’m undecided how much I can really tolerate hearing about financial markets…) You can also view Paul Bloom’s introduction to psychology. I haven’t looked at many [...]
Tagged as: ancient greece, democracy, greece, history, ideas, learning, philosophy
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[Here's a bit I've got so far prefacing That Project Provisionally Called a Book.] Say Everything, Scott Rosenberg’s book about “how blogging began, where it’s going, and why it matters,” begins on the morning of September 11, 2001. Along with first-hand witnesses in Manhattan, many other people across the US gravitated online to share their thoughts [...]
Tagged as: 9/11, blogging, digital media, social media, writing
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This might seem like a joke or a bunch of rhetoric but it isn’t. Ok, maybe it’s somewhat extremely rhetorical — but no less serious: What exactly is supposed to come out of this economic summit on Thursday anyways? On Saturday I read a passing mention of it in the subhead to some comments by Chris Bentley, [...]
Tagged as: discourse, economic summit, ledc, london economic development corporation, london ontario, london's economy, open democracy, public sphere, social media, web
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I’m working on trying to select and organize some of my best posts into a book I’ll publish through Lulu. If you have any you like — or stuck in your mind at least — or if you’ve been reading without ever commenting, now’s the time to say something. The working title is “The World Turned [...]
Tagged as: blogging, change, history, journalism, social media, writing
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