Archive for the ‘Data’ Category

Digital salvation

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006One tribute that seemed more significant than most as the baton passed last week and the retiring CEO of the Guardian Media Group, owner of The Observer and much else, hailed his newly designated successor. 'This is a first ...

Better Than We Know Ourselves

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006Music - economics - socioeconomics - search - contextual search - narrative threads in a borderless world - google for the ears - collaborative filtering - tags - social information filtering - navigating superabundance in a superdistributed world - databases ...

The society and economics of the virtual kingdom

Friday, May 19th, 2006This is a definite must-read if you want to get your head around the consequences of virtual worlds.And is a welcome support to the chapter in our book The emerging virtual economy. Magic Kingdoms for us and our ...

Reputation: the growing importance of trust in our digital world

Saturday, April 29th, 2006Rob Hof in his article Are online reputations portable? opens up the debate For years, both sellers and buyers on eBay have bellyached about not being able to carry their reputations--the feedback ratings they get from each other ...

The Maths of Group Forming Networks

Saturday, April 29th, 2006In his article Weapon of Math Destruction David P. Reed says Conventional wisdom is that a remarkably powerful effect known as Metcalfe's Law is driving the growth of the Internet. The law says that the value ...

The battle for my(voice)space

Thursday, April 20th, 2006Musings on myspaceThis post below on myspace is interesting for a variety of reasons. After my initial excitement about Rupes buying myspace, and extolling the virtues of buying the holes in the digital cheese.I stopped and wondered if ...

Site hopes to be Wikipedia of travel world

Thursday, April 20th, 2006From the San Francisco Chronicle Because most travel guidebooks are out of date before they hit the bookstore shelves, TripAdvisor.com of Needham, Mass., has started a guidebook-like service that will be written and edited anonymously by the Web ...

Networks of Palliative Care

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006I was listening to a radio 4 programme yesterday about Palliative care, something that unfortunately I do have a personal engagement with at the moment as my father-in-law is dying of cancer caused by Asbestosis.Tony lives with us, and ...

When push comes to pull: the new economy & culture of the networked society

Thursday, March 30th, 2006I have been reading the Aspen Institutes latest ouvre, entitled When push comes to pull. The new economy & culture of networking technologyWhich resonates deeply with Communities Dominate Brands.David Bollier the author states If the world seems a confusing ...

Mobile TV: what’s it all mean?

Friday, March 24th, 2006Tomi is featured in two periodicals this week on the topic of mobile-TV convergence. In the American business weekly Barrons, he is quoted at length saying pretty much the same stuff he's on about here at our blogsite, for ...

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