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 ...
The miracle of Hudson Street
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Engagement Marketing, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Strategy | No Comments »A piece of elegiac and beautiful writing from Malcolm Gladwell - though there is a point to its inclusion on CDB the title is called Designs for Working In the early nineteen-sixties, Jane Jacobs lived on Hudson ...
Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Books, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Ethics, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Trends | 2 Comments »Says Stephen A Marglin Economists celebrate the market as a device for regulating human interaction without acknowledging that their enthusiasm depends on a set of half-truths: that individuals are autonomous, self-interested, and rational calculators with unlimited wants and ...
The data flow wars
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Networks, News, Participation, Philosophy, Quotes, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Trends, Web/Tech, iPTV | 1 Comment »Way back in 2003 Tomi and I started working on a project called Communities Dominate Brands - today the very things that wrote about have become - well mainstream. Its a crowded house these days. So - here's another road-sign for ...
How do I reach Jan Chipchase @ Nokia and why is Apple so bad? [2]
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Culture, Mobile, Sociology, Strategy | 1 Comment »I posted on Nokia's ethnographic research and used a Wired article as an example of 2 different ways of approaching product design And David Clark commented Its important to note that Apple doesn't shun user research ...
Evolution of SMLXL
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Books, Broadcast, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Education, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Generation C, Government & Politics, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Networks, News, Newspapers, Participation, Philosophy, Politics, Retail, Science, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs, iPTV | No Comments »In 2002, I founded a company called SMLXL - short for Small Medium Large XtraLarge. Its focus was and still is - how do businesses and organisations meaningfully engage in a commercial or social agenda with their audiences. We were some ...
Gutenberg and the changing nature of how we read and find information
Sunday, January 27th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Convergence, Culture, Media, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »We take technology as a raw substance and direct our creative energies to harness its capability to do our bidding and it has always been such since made found out how to make fire. We have mentioned Gutenberg from ...
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. And what has that got to do with us
Saturday, December 8th, 2007 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Culture, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Mobile, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Web/Tech | No Comments »Danah Boyd at Shift6 mentions a very highly regarded work Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life I will quote at length... One of the essays in this book, Misa Matsuda?s "Mobile Communication and ...
Moonedit: Technologies of Co-operation in Education
Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted in Education, Generation C, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Travel, Web/Tech | No Comments »Of course it was the great Howard Rheingold who uses the phrase technologies of cooperation around all things that relate to information/cultural economic production on digital platforms that enable many people to become actors to engage, act, edit, and collectively ...
Today life is always in beta: preparing for life in the post-modern age
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Darwin, Economics, Generation C, Media, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Sociology, Strategy, Web/Tech | 2 Comments »A good friend of mine Jon Barrett says With technology the one thing you do know is that you will always be wrong. So you might as be wrong as quick as you can, to start working on how ...
