communication. community. cognition.
B.S. Degree
“Thanks to Social Media, we’re all now qualified to grant ourselves honorary doctorates from the University of Me.”
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Erasing the Objections
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] See if these points sound familiar: There’s nothing special about this technology, it’s just another way to communicate. It’s a technology that frees people to express themselves, storing their input sequentially. Innovators are jumping on a bandwagon, which will really be just a fad. There’s a limited base
What Siege Engines Can Teach You About Modern Communications
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Let’s face it. Catapults and Trebuchets are just plain cool. There’s something visceral about launching large items great distances. That’s the easy part, though. The hard part is hitting your targets. To better facilitate targeting, siege engines needed a way to hit the things that were “in between”
The Sharecroppers Are Revolting
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] We’re in the midst of a fundamental generational shift in the way we think about property. Those of “us” on the fuddy-duddy side of the equation have been trying to understand what Ownership and Copyright will mean as technology progresses, but we may have been asking the wrong
Taste of the Town
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“There are better ways to sample local flavor than mowing with your mouth open.”
Trust is Made to be Broken
about 1 month ago - 14 comments
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Ain’t technology grand? It’s great that I can tap into networks of really smart people with relevant knowledge and skills. I can’t tell you how awesome it is that other professions have embraced the ability to break the barriers of time and space to collaborate. It can’t help
The Field Guide to Social Media Weasels
about 1 month ago - 209 comments
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] I wish I had a nickel for every Social Media Guru. And I wish I had a quarter for every one of them that ran from that description. It’s time for the Guru to die, because as a term it’s too generic to mean anything useful. For that
Bricklayers are not Architects
about 1 month ago - 11 comments
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] I wanted to wait until all the Lebron hoopla calmed down, because this isn’t a rant about sports. In fact, the NBA has very little interest for me these days, but I do pay enough attention to sports headlines to have seen this: Heat Signs Zydrunas Ilgauskas MIAMI, July
Bad Smells Get Second Winds
about 1 month ago - 5 comments
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] We had an issue a couple of months ago, that was localized to a specific subdivision. Someone posted a complaint online to a social network, then went to the office. By lunchtime, we had already reached out to that person (in person, and based on a previous phone
The Internet is a Kennel
about 1 month ago - 24 comments
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] By now, many others have weighed in on a very recent online spat, so I won’t go into particulars. Person A, who is very well known, made a comment that devoid of context came across as arrogant. He didn’t mean it that way. Person B, who is very
Political Vegetable
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“Modern politics is an endless onion. You can peel back layers as long as you want, and everything you find smells bad and makes you cry.”
