ProPublica versus the Grocers
Saturday, October 18th, 2008 Posted in Citizen journalism, Ethics, Government & Politics, Newspapers, Participation, Society, Trends | No Comments »ProPublica.org aims to make up some of the ground lost to journalism by the current crisis of advertising revenues bleeding to the internet. In particular, it seeks to preserve the skills and value of investigative reporting one of the first ...
Doing the right thing
Saturday, October 18th, 2008 Posted in Darwin, Economics, Society | 1 Comment »How the Credit Crisis Could Forge a New Financial Order
The bull market for humility
Friday, October 17th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Darwin, Economics, Ethics, Quotes, Society, Trends | No Comments »This disproportionality has been tested to destruction by the recent hysteria of City incomes. The result is that, after a decade of widening wealth differentials, they should start to narrow. Non-economic components of what we vaguely refer to as the good life will take ...
There are more keys on my piano Mr McCain
Friday, October 17th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Ethics, Events, Government & Politics, Quotes, Society | No Comments »I do say that Americans have looked long and hard at the candidates this past month and are now minded to conclude, in the fine phrase used by Garrison Keillor of a speech he heard the young Kennedy give long ago, that Obama ...
Crowdsourcing creates friction
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Ethics, Participation, Social Networks, Trends, Uncategorized, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »Kevin Potts recently did a review/critique of wundersite www.99designs.com - which appears to be a simplified spin of other such sites like Elance and what Kevin calls it’s “malignant brethren”. The site, which uses less than ideal techniques to ...
Advertising Furniture - Business models and Collapse
Sunday, October 12th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Research, Generation C, Marketing, Media, Networks, Participation, Philosophy, Quotes, Strategy | 1 Comment »In my presentations I ask people what is advertising? They describe all the furniture of advertising, you know 60 sec. spots, billboards, double page spreads etc. Right now I am reading Jeffrey Sachs - Commonwealth. Economics for a crowded planet Fascinating - ...
C’mon everybody
Sunday, October 12th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Marketing, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends | 1 Comment »in Widgets, People and the Web - I pointed to David Cushman and his thoughts about how humans become in a world of ubiquitous social computing the very nervous systems upon which future commerce and all other things will be ...
Widgets, people and the web
Friday, October 10th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Generation C, Marketing, Media, Participation, Retail, Social Networks, Sociology, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »Dave Cushman presented his thoughts on how people become the key distributors of information in the networked society Dave mentions Reed's Law - the law of group forming networks. Another thought that has crossed my mind is that there is a ...
Periodic Table of Videos
Monday, October 6th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Generation C, Media, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »The Periodic Table of Videos is something that Euan picked as one of his fav's of the web and 12 Seconds There are some that decry the web as a place that kills culture. I just can't figure out what ...
Getting stuff done - collectively
Saturday, October 4th, 2008 Posted in Engagement Education, Ethics, Social Networks, Society, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »Euan's story about stuff - which arose when we were chatting at the British Museum recently is now a post called Stuff The guts of Euan's post is here, We were each asked to bring to the event 5 things which we ...
