Archive for June, 2006

You say Tamaato I say Tomarto

Saturday, June 17th, 2006Harsh DhundiaMuses on Shel Israel and my conversations about communitiesHarsh saysIn some ways I agree with Shel...that a community with a need exists first. Then I agree with Alan...that the business that meets the need actually brings the people ...

Griefers beyond the pale and the rise of self government in virtual worlds

Friday, June 16th, 2006Gamers don't want any more grief was the headline in the Technology Guardian yesterdayPlayers who abuse others in online games may soon be ostracised as virtual communities start to police their own environmentsExplaining the issue Journalist Martin ...

Local news and the BBC in the networked society

Friday, June 16th, 2006The BBC's embrace of the internet is not the first time it has championed a new medium, since it was a pioneer in television, able to take on the risk of investing in an untried technology. Its role in ...

Blushing Auntie’s success not so clear cut

Friday, June 16th, 2006The BBC's embrace of the internet is not the first time it has championed a new medium, since it was a pioneer in television, able to take on the risk of investing in an untried technology. Its role in ...

Mysteries of large distributed systems

Thursday, June 15th, 2006One of the great mysteries of large distributed systems - from communities and organisations to brains and ecosystems - is how globally coherent activity can emerge in the absence of centralised authority or controlThis is the ...

Alan and Shel on the BBC

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006Last week I was a keynote speaker along with Shel Israel of Naked conversations, at the NMK marketing 2.0 - content 2.0 conference.Shel and I - had a head to head conversation about Trust, Communications, and Marketing.It was ...

Its not the end of economics as we know it…but

Monday, June 5th, 2006I am in the middle of reading Yochai Benkler's book   The Wealth of Networks.Tons of useful stuff, however, this I found to be interesting, in trying to get companies/ organisations to understand and therefore rethink how they do what ...

Fast-food giants feeling heat from the film of the book.

Friday, June 2nd, 2006With the premiere of the anti-junk food film Fast Food Nation in Cannes last Friday, America is about to find itself in an intense, potentially messy, summer-long food fight.Reported the Observer Ohhhhh did someone say ...

mobile myspace, and the relationship between brands and communities

Friday, June 2nd, 2006So here's a surprise the action on the MySpace music channel outpaces the other online music venues. According to Jupiter Research, the rambunctious and infectious community action on MySpace Music exceeds Yahoo Music, AOL Music, and MTV.com. In fact, ...

Viral video and the death of the broadcast casino

Thursday, June 1st, 2006John Gappers article in the FT Broadcasters cannot quarantine the viral video outbreak has been sitting on my paper strewn desk since April 19th.Gapper tells us that the broadcasters lot is not a happy one. The explosion is ...

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