Great article – Peering into the future of the Infosphere
No sooner had I put Internet and Online on my list of Tired Words, I came across this article by Luciano Floridi. It was a follow-on article of a similar near-f...
Category: The Narrative
Tired words: Online
My struggle here is the definition of this word. Too vague. Online – Everything that communicates or uses data is connected to the net or will be (to be s...
Tired words: Community
The upsurge of the careless use of this word has me spinning. Community – Same as innovation. It’s something you see after, rather than can craft be...
When will some measurements become useless or need new names?
Geez, I’ve been contrarian lately. Maybe it’s because I am working with great folks who question everything (they call it the ‘three whys̵...
Flat rate billing – be careful what you wish for
Today I gave a talk for alumni from the Copenhagen Business School (tickled pink to be invited). I spoke about three topics that are near and dear to ...
Tired words: Internet
I suppose you could say today’s word is a hard one to be tired of. But, I think it’s just that I belong to the last generation of the non-natives wh...
Audioblogger closing down
Audioblogger, a service from Odeo to post over-the-phone recordings onto a Blogger site, will close at the end of this month. Basically, they say it was too exp...
Failure by leaps and bounds
I was listening to another great seminar (don’t remember which), but there was a side comment on evolution. Basically, nature can really only make increme...
Tired words: Podcast
Well, I’m not really tired of it – yet. Podcast – I would like to have another name for time-shifted recordings. Y’see, none of the podc...
Tired words: Blog
Today’s word will probably lead to a lot of flames. Blog – I try to avoid this word. Really, blogs are just websites and come in all shape, sizes, a...