Swimming the sea of knowledge (the Concept Web?)
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how to find, navigate, recombine, and contribute to … what’s out there, though mostly focused ...
Category: Strategy
The Electric Knife Syndrome
I’m at the Mobile 2.0 conference in Barcelona. I was talking with Mark Kramer, and Bryan and Stepanie Rieger about the things we usually talk about. I had...
Twitter is the queen of micro-down
My design for Twitter’s "over capacity" screenOriginally uploaded by Mykl Roventine Twitter has been so popular that it finally reached a stage ...
Does Anyone Use Phone Booths Anymore?
A long forgotten phoneboothOriginally uploaded by schickr PhoneBoy asks this question (link below). Indeed, I think the folks who have been ramping down their p...
Awesome Clay Shirky interview (with a side-comment that cuts too close)
Glenn Fleishman did a great interview (back in March) of Clay Shirky on the topics in Clay’s new book ‘Here Comes Everybody’. Clay, as always,...
Plaxo is acquired by Comcast, Zyb by Vodafone
Ok. This is last week’s news. But, I am not seeing much discussion about this. Why? Mashable picked it up right away. But not one person commented on Plax...
From my sideline seat, Thompson Reuters seems awfully archaic
Can someone please explain to me how and why Thompson Reuters Scientific has such a grip on scientific journal Impact Factors? If you look at the list of variou...
Mechstreams – when machines start lifestreaming with us
Ok, so lifestreaming is the rage of ’08, what with SocialThing! and Friendfeed and all similar services hogging all the attention. But I also see somethin...
SwitchAbit as the great data switchboard in the cloud
Just stumbled upon this (no longer remember how): Link: At SwitchAbit, Twittergram Shares a Common Future – GigaOM So what is a SwitchAbit? Think of it as...
Mowser and dotMobi: Ouch, the cognitive dissonance is huge here for me
What do I get when I mix a top level domain I really do not like, with a concept (transcoding) that I have been grappling with for years, and two really smart g...