communication. community. cognition.
The Big Empty
“Never underestimate the ability of shallow people to fill a void in their lives with something equally as vacuous.”
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Erasing the Objections
about 4 weeks ago - 20 comments
[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
about 4 weeks ago - 17 comments
[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
about 1 month ago - 21 comments
[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
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
Jester of the Round Table
about 1 month ago - 3 comments
Jen Zingsheim over at Custom Scoop was kind enough to ask me to sit in on the weekly Media Bullseye Roundtable with Sarah Wurrey. We talked about online civility, the psychology of internet lackeys and minions, and the success of the Old Spice social media campaign. (@oldspice) It’s a pretty decent little chat – and
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
A Cupful of Wisdom
about 1 month ago - 2 comments
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Soccer is the most boring thing to watch on television. – America The cynics are having a field day with the World Cup final, calling Spain’s last-minute-of-overtime 1-0 victory a snoozefest. I’m not here to argue with them, but it is important to understand why. Scoring Value The
about 8 months ago
Amen.