shift and share

The early years of the 20-teens have been dominated by talk of “disruption”, as new technologies surge into previously conservative corners of the economy and shake things up. But there is a narrative that I believe will change as we move into 2016 – indeed, I believe it needs to change; what have been conversations […]

More dissection of the SXSW conference and its social/cultural reverberations has helped me crystallize some thinking on sharing in the context of large gatherings. Conferences, as a confluence of intellectual inputs and people, represent huge potential for learning and knowledge creation, but also represent an equal amount of lost opportunity and knowledge dissipation. The perennial […]

Every once and a while you read an article that fully articulates a thought that was half-formed in your head; last week, the NYTimes had just such an article. Waxing about the “Enough Already!” response of many Twitter users subjected to the torrent of updates gushing out of the SXSW gathering, the article put a […]

Steve Rubel wrote an interesting post today on the disappearance of deep blogging and the steady transformation of the ‘blogosphere’ into the ‘lazysphere’. He points to the current practice of many bloggers of simply jumping on the bandwagon of the story-du-jour without adding anything in the way of insight or added value to the discussion. […]

Excellent discussion between Don Tapscott and Google’s Eric Schmidt; part of Google’s Author series. This is a useful primer on the ideas of mass collaboration. An interesting moment, I thought, was Tapscott’s suggestion that success in the old paradigm makes it more difficult to adopt the new one…sounds a lot like our saying; “Nothing Fails […]

A lot continues to be said about Web 2/3/4.0, and as always, it’s fascinating to see what the various conceptions, definitions and understandings of it seem to be. From a very technical perspective, Google’s Eric Schmidt recently gave an explanation of what he believes it to be, and predictably, he looks at it from the […]

Wired did a feature a few months back on radical transparency; the concept of making a company open and interactive versus closed and proprietary. The examples given were, themselves, quite interesting. In particular, Microsoft’s “Channel 9” was a fascinating look at the struggle between the usual corporate cultural imperative of keeping internal projects, processes and […]