What happens when innovation is done well? Well… a lot of things happen. One of them is you get a lot more attention — which is harder and harder to come by these days: What is it that makes the economy hum, but is not growing? What’s the limiting factor behind all those web pages, [...]
Tagged as: attention, influence, London Free Press, mavens, popularity, social media, twitter, voices.com
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Few people can resist talking about end-of-year favourites — bloggers especially. Since a lot of us are already going to be posting our picks we might as well try to aggregate them into one stream for everyone to admire together. It’s the holiday season, after all. It’ll be pretty easy — as long as people [...]
Tagged as: aggregation, blogging, gdldn, ldnfavs09, social media, tagging
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Last week when I read Titus Ferguson’s post about the fact “‘social’ is in ‘social media’ for a reason,” I was reminded of Dan Brown’s column at LFPress.com about how his blog has led to offline friendships. I can relate. Since I started actively engaging people on Twitter a year ago my little bubble has exploded. I [...]
Tagged as: community, gdldn, groups, social, social media, twitter, web
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by Brian on 11-24-2009
Reflecting on last weekend’s talk on creativity I worried that probably emphasized the “open” aspect of the creative cycle at the expense of the “closed” aspect. My gist seemed to be, “Don’t worry about anything… try everything, and fantastic creations will magically appear.” Given the circumstances, I’m happy I erred that way rather than the other. We [...]
Tagged as: benjamin franklin, bruce mau, complexity, creativity, dennis dutton, digital media, discovery, electricity, epistemology, evolution, generativity, history, paradigms, poetry, pragmatism, progress, revolutions, social media, theory, think21st, thomas kuhn
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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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Regarding the reading group, Titus and I chatted briefly at gdldn (last week was pretty chaotic for pulling people together), just enough to touch base but there are still some specifics to figure out, starting with: when? where? what? As goes without saying, feedback and suggestions are more than welcome. I’m probably more flexible than [...]
Tagged as: bookldn, books, gdldn, reading, social media
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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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