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This map at the Forbes.com site will lead you to a slide show picturing the top 30 cities in Forbes' survey of wired cities.
The "liveliness" of the Forbes.com site provides a strong illustration of the difference between Forbes online and the paper version of the magazine. A great example of how printed business magazines are dying, and how Forbes is innovating to retain subscribers and offer advertisers more qualified reader attention than could ever be captured by the paper magazine. Mark Anderson has a related article at Strategic News Service entitled Bizmags: Sexy Dinosaurs Losing Their Grip??!!
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
- Why are conversation and collaboration tools so underused? Is my list of 7 reasons missing anything? Are any of the reasons predominant?
- Is the answer making the tools better? If so, how? If not, what is the answer?
- Given time, do you think people will eventually learn to use these tools, despite their shortcomings? Which tools, current or envisioned, will be the winners, the killer apps for online-enabled conversation and collaboration, and why?
- What one simple thing should we do/learn to most effectively enable people to become better conversationalists, and how would we do this?
- Most people are still unfamiliar with the tools in the middle and right columns.
- Many of these tools are unintuitive and hence not easy to learn to use.
- The way you have to use these tools is not the way most people converse and collaborate, i.e. they're awkward.
- Most people have poor listening, communication and collaboration skills, and these tools don't solve (and can exacerbate) this underlying problem of ineffective interpersonal skills.
- The training materials for these tools don't match the way most of us learn and discover (i.e. by doing, by watching others, and iteratively by trial and error).
- Often the people we most want to converse or collaborate with aren't online.
- Often we don't even know who the right people are to converse or collaborate with, so we need to go through a process of discovering who those people are first, which these tools cannot yet effectively help us with; once we've discovered who the right people are, we're likely already talking with them using the ubiquitous tools in the left column above.
From Dave Pollard's original blog post.Social Networking: Why are Conversation and Collaboration Tools so Underused?
Thursday, August 24, 2006
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Friday, August 04, 2006
change this as PR for authors,
Read and Pass: "Publishers need to understand that ChangeThis is here to help them, just like Cuba Gooding Jr. understood that Jerry was there to show him the money. ChangeThis could show the publishers the money too. The vast majority of books get published and go unnoticed; ChangeThis offers an opportunity for books with great, viral ideas to get an instant shot of PR. Having millions of people read a chapter of a great book usually means many thousands of people will wind up buying that book.
At ChangeThis, our goal is to change people’s minds through the spread of important ideas. In no way are we out here to make money. But that doesn’t mean we’re against publishers selling more books because of the manifestos we distribute. If people are so moved by an excerpt, by all means they should go out and purchase the whole book.
There’s so many incredible ideas out there, floundering in the sea of published yet undiscovered books. Some of these books are too powerful to let drown into obscurity.
That’s why we’re throwing out lifejackets."
At ChangeThis, our goal is to change people’s minds through the spread of important ideas. In no way are we out here to make money. But that doesn’t mean we’re against publishers selling more books because of the manifestos we distribute. If people are so moved by an excerpt, by all means they should go out and purchase the whole book.
There’s so many incredible ideas out there, floundering in the sea of published yet undiscovered books. Some of these books are too powerful to let drown into obscurity.
That’s why we’re throwing out lifejackets."
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
BA Venture Partners - News: BAVP News
BA Venture Partners - News: BAVP News: "Venture capitalists also sometimes accept lower ownership stakes, as many mature firms have a passel of existing investors. That means lower profits for the new investors when a company finally goes public or is sold. Plus, many investors simply 'don't want to fix the mistakes of their competitors,' says Crosslink's Mr. Stark.
But the likelihood of at least a passable return on a late-stage company looks attractive to many down-on-their-luck venture investors these days.
'Over the last five years, we haven't made a whole lot of capital gains for our customers,' says BA's Mr. O'Driscoll. 'So no one's going to sit there and get all virginal and say, 'I don't want to go late [stage] -- I don't want to make money.''"
But the likelihood of at least a passable return on a late-stage company looks attractive to many down-on-their-luck venture investors these days.
'Over the last five years, we haven't made a whole lot of capital gains for our customers,' says BA's Mr. O'Driscoll. 'So no one's going to sit there and get all virginal and say, 'I don't want to go late [stage] -- I don't want to make money.''"
Monday, July 24, 2006
Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing
Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing: "s who are focused on creating highly scalable services and significant value propositions for their end users. Hear Fred Wilson on Businessweek's Blogspotting podcast.
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Sunday, July 23, 2006
GoogleBase Job Listing: World Domination Coordinator
GoogleBase Job Listing: World Domination Coordinator
Originally uploaded by dmc500hats.
humorous?? tweak on GoogleBase
What do Grazr and BBL add to the technology google has underlying googlebase and googleprint?
I envision a google search server powered with the technology that is the basis for such BETA projects used to build the GFVN -
of a demo which is structured database filled out with the content components of GFVN -
Imagine having your very own dedicated google search engine
hardware with to manage the population of data/information/blogposts that will be the content of GFVN
Wouldn't ConversationBase work best on a dedicated google server(s) fitted out with the value network content?
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Dr. Larry Dossey's Official Website
Dr. Larry Dossey's Official Website: "What applications, beyond medical practice, can Era III thinking have, in our culture at large and in our private lives?
The foundation of Era III is nonlocal mind -- mind that is infinite, eternal, immortal. As nonlocal mind becomes a living reality for more people, we could become a kinder, gentler culture. Nonlocal mind leads to what I call the Golden Rule of Era III: 'Do good unto others because they are you!' Why? Because, as I said earlier, nonlocal mind is unlimited and boundless, which means that minds can't be walled off from each other. In some sense, at some level, we are each other.
Taking nonlocal mind seriously can, as I describe in Reinventing Medicine, widen the dimensions of the consciousness. We can tap into sources of wisdom beyond ourselves and beyond the present. Creative breakthroughs and prophetic knowing become ordinary in the context of nonlocal mind. Empathy and compassion flower as a result of our felt linkage with one another. And the awareness of immortality, as I've described, takes the pressure off living and dying. This will not happen automatically, however. We have to do our share and set our biases and prejudices aside. These are urgent matters. As Andre Malraux said, 'The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be at all.' "
The foundation of Era III is nonlocal mind -- mind that is infinite, eternal, immortal. As nonlocal mind becomes a living reality for more people, we could become a kinder, gentler culture. Nonlocal mind leads to what I call the Golden Rule of Era III: 'Do good unto others because they are you!' Why? Because, as I said earlier, nonlocal mind is unlimited and boundless, which means that minds can't be walled off from each other. In some sense, at some level, we are each other.
Taking nonlocal mind seriously can, as I describe in Reinventing Medicine, widen the dimensions of the consciousness. We can tap into sources of wisdom beyond ourselves and beyond the present. Creative breakthroughs and prophetic knowing become ordinary in the context of nonlocal mind. Empathy and compassion flower as a result of our felt linkage with one another. And the awareness of immortality, as I've described, takes the pressure off living and dying. This will not happen automatically, however. We have to do our share and set our biases and prejudices aside. These are urgent matters. As Andre Malraux said, 'The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be at all.' "
about elise.com: On the Job
a treatise on blogging Elise is a local consultant her blogroll connects her to some good folks.about elise.com: On the Job
Friday, July 21, 2006
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Jeffery hates tags clouds -- woth reading Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Micro Persuasion: Mind The Conversation Gap
the value of blogs in closing the Conversation Gap
Micro Persuasion: Mind The Conversation Gap
Micro Persuasion: Mind The Conversation Gap
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki: The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki: The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
Guy's top ten postings ( his own of course - what did you think)
Guy's top ten postings ( his own of course - what did you think)
Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki
Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki
see the article onan interview with
David Sifry of technorati. good stuff
see the article onan interview with
David Sifry of technorati. good stuff
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium
a book in process. Kelly is the proto-human of his age - out of control but in a very cool way
a book in process. Kelly is the proto-human of his age - out of control but in a very cool way
Sunday, July 16, 2006
flickrInspector | http://netomer.de/flickrtools/
flickrInspector | http://netomer.de/flickrtools/
This scan of meby flickr inspector is scary - but maybe useful.
This scan of meby flickr inspector is scary - but maybe useful.
Friday, July 14, 2006
Principles of XML design: When to use elements versus attributes
Principles of XML design: When to use elements versus attributes
related to OPML - which appears to be a distant child of the More Outliner
It would seem important to understand how graphic markup language for visualizations fits within the hierarchical structure of OPML.
related to OPML - which appears to be a distant child of the More Outliner
It would seem important to understand how graphic markup language for visualizations fits within the hierarchical structure of OPML.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Company - Duarte Design
a leading hightech presentation company possibly a partner for TI
Company - Duarte Design
Company - Duarte Design
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Uniconventional Theories
Dave Pollard has an interesting challenge to his readers to provide "unconventional theories" to explain 7 different quandaries. It might be interesting to try.How to Save the World
Friday, May 19, 2006
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006
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O'Reilly Network: Hypermedia: Why Now?
Worth reading ; discusses remix from Tom Barnett through udell's podcast and then Phil Windley's remix of that
O'Reilly Network: Hypermedia: Why Now?
O'Reilly Network: Hypermedia: Why Now?
Friday, December 16, 2005
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Monday, November 21, 2005
Reading Off the Charts: Beyond the Outer Shores and Year of Wonders
Reading Off the Charts: Beyond the Outer Shores and Year of Wonders: "It is hard to do justice to this book in so short an space or simple this reviewer but I hope it will find its place in the sun. It deserves to be made into a fine television series (like Carl and Ann Sagan?s and Steve Sotter?s Cosmos), recreating the stories, voyages and discoveries of Ed Ricketts and friends with this accompanying book with its reproduced specimen drawings, photos and extensive notes. Enough of the BBC biographies and nature shows, good as they are! Where is a creative producer when you need him/her? Let?s honor a hero of our own who has so much to give us as he did to his friends who immortalized him in literature. And I am grateful to Eric Enno Tamm for coming along at the right moment and writing such a fantastic book.
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Pierre Omidyar in December Esquire
Pierre Omidyar in December Esquire: "John: You captured the context of the rolling interview and the essence of the Omidyar's - a deep faith in the goodness of people and the willingness to invest their wealth in finding ways to help others create new social enterprises.
I have no doubt it will generate a lot of added interest in the O.net - but I fear that the network volume may cascade because of the publicity and force the network design folks to come up with a plan to help O.net participants sort through the topic content to find gems of wisdom and people of common interest.
Tom Munnecke is a very good example of a netizen of the O.net who has adopted it as his new home. Tom puts in enormous hours on the O.Net - but he has a lot to say and much of it synchs well with the chaordic process he is comfortable basking in.
In spite of my comments about opening the door to a lot of new folks on the O.net, I hope your article does as much for broadening the reach of Pam and Pierre's vision as the Esquire article The Pentagon's New Map did for my friend Tom Barnett --Tom's book was voted #6 of all books on current events on Amazon in 2004. Quite a leap from the platform Esquire provided.
I think it took a leap of faith and an innovative turn of mind on your part to land the interview and turn it into a truthful piece - nice job.
Dave Davison"
I have no doubt it will generate a lot of added interest in the O.net - but I fear that the network volume may cascade because of the publicity and force the network design folks to come up with a plan to help O.net participants sort through the topic content to find gems of wisdom and people of common interest.
Tom Munnecke is a very good example of a netizen of the O.net who has adopted it as his new home. Tom puts in enormous hours on the O.Net - but he has a lot to say and much of it synchs well with the chaordic process he is comfortable basking in.
In spite of my comments about opening the door to a lot of new folks on the O.net, I hope your article does as much for broadening the reach of Pam and Pierre's vision as the Esquire article The Pentagon's New Map did for my friend Tom Barnett --Tom's book was voted #6 of all books on current events on Amazon in 2004. Quite a leap from the platform Esquire provided.
I think it took a leap of faith and an innovative turn of mind on your part to land the interview and turn it into a truthful piece - nice job.
Dave Davison"
Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - Printable Version - The Flickrization of Yahoo
Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - Printable Version - The Flickrization of Yahoo: "The Flickrization of Yahoo
How the founders of a hot young photo-sharing site are helping to change the focus of the search engine giant -- and turning its fight with Google into a battle of man vs. machine.
By Erick Schonfeld, December 2005 Issue"
How the founders of a hot young photo-sharing site are helping to change the focus of the search engine giant -- and turning its fight with Google into a battle of man vs. machine.
By Erick Schonfeld, December 2005 Issue"
Calit2 : igrid panel -nexus of public health and environmental data collection analysis and display
Calit2 : California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology: "Biocomputation: Advanced Technologies for Next Generation Medicine
Kevin Montgomery ,
National Biocomputation Center, Stanford University
Length: 15:49 [video] [ppt"
Kevin Montgomery ,
National Biocomputation Center, Stanford University
Length: 15:49 [video] [ppt"
Calit2 : California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
Calit2 : California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology: "As Earth becomes increasingly tested on a variety of environmental fronts -- climate warming, global pollution and natural hazards, to name a few -- new ways of observing and monitoring planetary changes have become critical to developing solutions for science and society.
Webcast
To watch a live webcast of the symposium between 9am and 1pm on Monday, November 21,
click here.
[Real player required]
In an effort to organize and enhance these efforts, the University of California, San Diego is spearheading a new center based at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography focused on monitoring and analyzing aspects of Earth and its environment on a global scale. The mission of the new Center for Earth Observations and Applications (CEOA) is to 'stimulate, support and coordinate sustained research and applications in Earth observations at (UCSD).'"
Webcast
To watch a live webcast of the symposium between 9am and 1pm on Monday, November 21,
click here.
[Real player required]
In an effort to organize and enhance these efforts, the University of California, San Diego is spearheading a new center based at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography focused on monitoring and analyzing aspects of Earth and its environment on a global scale. The mission of the new Center for Earth Observations and Applications (CEOA) is to 'stimulate, support and coordinate sustained research and applications in Earth observations at (UCSD).'"
Calit2 : California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
Calit2 : California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology: "Streaming Video of iGrid 2005 Symposium Presentations Now Available for On-Demand Viewing"
Wired News: Eye-Popping Streaming Film Debuts larry smarr's visualization hibandwidth
Wired News: Eye-Popping Streaming Film Debuts: "California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology) facility"
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Saturday, November 19, 2005
mossberg's favorite blogs
By WALTER S. MOSSBERG, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Every day, I scan dozens of blogs, on politics, sports, news, and, of
course, personal technology -- the topic I write about. Here are some of my
favorite tech blogs. Like all blogs, these range from mere roundups of items
elsewhere on the Web to outpourings of personal opinion. Some are more like
journals, others lean more toward traditional Web sites. I don't vouch for
their accuracy or thoroughness, but I do find them interesting and useful.
There are lots of blogs and Web sites aimed at general gadget lovers, but I
recommend Engadget, at engadget.com1. It's not deep on analysis or testing,
but it rounds up most of the new stuff and surrounds it with short, snappy
patter.
For serious techies, who are deep in the weeds on all sorts of technical
issues and the social and political trends surrounding them, the must-read
blog is Slashdot, at slashdot.org2. Another excellent blog on tech issues
and also politics is by Dan Gillmor, a former newspaper columnist and
champion of "grass-roots journalism." You can read Dan at
Dan Gillmor's blog | Bayosphere3.
Some blogs focus on specific products. My favorite blog on cellphones is
Phone Scoop, at phonescoop.com4. My favorite blog on digital cameras is the
Digital Camera Resource Page, at dcresource.com5.
The iPod, of course, is a gadget with its own massive cult, so there are
numerous blogs for iPod lovers. In my view, the best of these is iLounge, at
ilounge.com6. It includes beginner's guides and in-depth reviews as well as
news.
Some blogs are excellent resources for following specific tech companies.
For instance, if you care about Google, and the search business in general,
there are two blogs to follow. One is John Battelle's Searchblog, at
battellemedia.com7. The other is the Search Engine Watch blog, by search
guru Danny Sullivan, at blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/8.
For Microsoft-watchers, a fascinating blog -- by a Microsoft employee named
Robert Scoble -- is Scobleizer, at scobleizer.wordpress.com9. Another
excellent blog on the software giant is Microsoft Monitor, at
microsoftmonitor.com10. It's by Joe Wilcox, an analyst at Jupitermedia and a
former tech journalist.
Then there are the blogs about Apple, the tech company that is so secretive,
yet so closely watched, that it attracts rumors, gossip and commentary like
flies. There are dozens of blogs and Web sites about Apple and its products,
far more than about much larger companies like Microsoft or Dell.
Apple watchers should check out Think Secret, at thinksecret.com11;
MacDailyNews, at macdailynews.com12; AppleInsider, at appleinsider.com13;
and the Unofficial Apple Weblog, at tuaw.com14. And no Apple cultist should
overlook the blog that makes fun of all the other rumor sites, Crazy Apple
Rumors, at crazyapplerumors.com15.
Write to Walter S. Mossberg at walt.mossberg@wsj.com16
November 16, 2005
Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113210664894198480.html
Every day, I scan dozens of blogs, on politics, sports, news, and, of
course, personal technology -- the topic I write about. Here are some of my
favorite tech blogs. Like all blogs, these range from mere roundups of items
elsewhere on the Web to outpourings of personal opinion. Some are more like
journals, others lean more toward traditional Web sites. I don't vouch for
their accuracy or thoroughness, but I do find them interesting and useful.
There are lots of blogs and Web sites aimed at general gadget lovers, but I
recommend Engadget, at engadget.com1. It's not deep on analysis or testing,
but it rounds up most of the new stuff and surrounds it with short, snappy
patter.
For serious techies, who are deep in the weeds on all sorts of technical
issues and the social and political trends surrounding them, the must-read
blog is Slashdot, at slashdot.org2. Another excellent blog on tech issues
and also politics is by Dan Gillmor, a former newspaper columnist and
champion of "grass-roots journalism." You can read Dan at
Dan Gillmor's blog | Bayosphere3.
Some blogs focus on specific products. My favorite blog on cellphones is
Phone Scoop, at phonescoop.com4. My favorite blog on digital cameras is the
Digital Camera Resource Page, at dcresource.com5.
The iPod, of course, is a gadget with its own massive cult, so there are
numerous blogs for iPod lovers. In my view, the best of these is iLounge, at
ilounge.com6. It includes beginner's guides and in-depth reviews as well as
news.
Some blogs are excellent resources for following specific tech companies.
For instance, if you care about Google, and the search business in general,
there are two blogs to follow. One is John Battelle's Searchblog, at
battellemedia.com7. The other is the Search Engine Watch blog, by search
guru Danny Sullivan, at blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/8.
For Microsoft-watchers, a fascinating blog -- by a Microsoft employee named
Robert Scoble -- is Scobleizer, at scobleizer.wordpress.com9. Another
excellent blog on the software giant is Microsoft Monitor, at
microsoftmonitor.com10. It's by Joe Wilcox, an analyst at Jupitermedia and a
former tech journalist.
Then there are the blogs about Apple, the tech company that is so secretive,
yet so closely watched, that it attracts rumors, gossip and commentary like
flies. There are dozens of blogs and Web sites about Apple and its products,
far more than about much larger companies like Microsoft or Dell.
Apple watchers should check out Think Secret, at thinksecret.com11;
MacDailyNews, at macdailynews.com12; AppleInsider, at appleinsider.com13;
and the Unofficial Apple Weblog, at tuaw.com14. And no Apple cultist should
overlook the blog that makes fun of all the other rumor sites, Crazy Apple
Rumors, at crazyapplerumors.com15.
Write to Walter S. Mossberg at walt.mossberg@wsj.com16
November 16, 2005
Copyright 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113210664894198480.html
Friday, November 18, 2005
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