So I saw this SEO copywriter joke a bunch of times yesterday. I love it: “So this SEO copywriter walks into a bar, grill, pub, public house, Irish bar, bartender, drinks, beer, wine, liquor” (If you don’t know what SEO copywriting is, it means writing with specific keywords in certain orders to help sites rank [...]
networks
The gist of Connected, the excellent book about the power of social networks, is that the most important factor in whether a person will do something — e.g. donate to charity, gain weight, steal a car, or simply smile — is whether the people around them are doing it too. It isn’t true of everything, [...]
Tagged as: apathy, changecamp, connected, elections, mobilization, networks, relationships, social networks, sociology, voter turnout, voting
If you’re in London Ontario this Saturday afternoon come to the Central Library for the Indie Media Fair. I’ll be doing a workshop at 3 pm on the convergence of social and independent media. I didn’t come up with the theme but it certainly resonates with me. I went to the fair last year and [...]
Tagged as: culture, groups, indie media, networked publics, networks, social media, society
Yesterday I read a really interesting story about a project to develop a new tool for researchers at the massive CERN laboratory (the folks who made that gigantic particle accelerator in Switzerland) to collaborate and share expertise more effectively. It’s a great complement to what John Seely Brown and John Hagel recently wrote about growing [...]
Tagged as: cern, collaboration, creativity, history, information, innovation, networks, open, open access, projects, technology, tim berners-lee, work
• Don’t take it too seriously. There will never be consensus. Ultimately everything is decided by what people use. Debate about what we should use will just go on and on forever. • Sometimes the stupidest ideas (sometimes starting as jokes and accidents) turn out to be the most popular and effective. Think of LOLcats [...]
Tagged as: communities, folksonomy, hashtags, networks, open standards, real-time web, relationships, tagging, taxonomy
Thinking in the 21st Century: Progress Report
by Brian on 12-27-2009
in business,creativity,culture,economics,education,media,science,web
The premise of this series is to work out a new way of looking at our changing world» Part of the reason we’ve had so much difficulty making sense of the complex events of the past decade is that our ways of thinking — specifically, the metaphors, analogies, and images we resort to — have [...]
Tagged as: bias, epistemology, heuristics, learning, meta factors, metaphors, metaphysics, networks, object bias, philosophy, psychology, relevance, social media, will to relevance
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
