Other people will have a lot more insight into this than I do, but since everyone is talking about Google’s announcement [excerpted]… We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which [...]
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Literally! Out of all the things buzzing in my head for a “new decade” post, the idea I want to highlight most is the increasing importance of making stuff. It’s been germinating in my mind via MakerCulture in the Making by UWO + Ryerson’s online journalism classes. Last week it was crystalized by Umair Haque’s “Builders’ Manifesto” [...]
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Some thoughts culminating out of the last post about how open standards emerge… a recent post by fellow Londoner Bill Wittur on some open government basics… the latest post on the Google blog defining their notion of openness… and a book I perused a couple days ago by Beth Noveck on open collaborative government. There’s no way I [...]
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The natural inclination right now for geeks of a certain type is to start dreaming up new standards bodies, or how they can participate in the Open Web Foundation to make a Super Awesome Twitter API Evolution Committee. Here’s my recommendation: Don’t. Don’t do any of that shit, and don’t run off to make membership [...]
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Nonfiction: What Would Google Do?, Jeff Jarvis It’s focused on media but the message is essential for anyone who’s work or life relies on the use of information. Chances are that means you…. It could be called a “new economy” book but it isn’t about the future. It’s about the economy we have now. The [...]
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There’s no way to avoid the reality that strikes will make people upset, but maybe we can do more to avoid them altogether. That suggestion was made by Larry Cornies in great column in Saturday’s London Free Press, arguing we’re overdue to consider the damage caused by strikes and lockouts, time to think more imaginatively about [...]
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Just finished perusing Douglas Rushkoff’s Life Inc: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back. Note the villain is “corporatism,” not simply corporations. Even corporations themselves are victimized; they get tilted into self-destructive acts by decision frameworks that benefit nobody — only roughly satisfying some people’s abstract sense that “the market [...]
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Can’t sleep. So I open up my computer and there’s a new post from Felix Salmon, “When Morgan Stanley almost died,” saying that even in this “orgy of one-year-later reminiscing,” decision-makers still need vivid reminders “just how close the entire financial world came to collapse.” No doubt. Canadians can’t forget it either — even though [...]
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