My friend in Second Life, the prolific Crap Mariner – who all bloggers, podcasters, and writers wish they could keep up with – has detailed his reactions to the updated version of the Second Life viewer. If you are going to build something with a user interface, read his post first. My favorite quote, which many [...]
I have many friends on Facebook or Twitter who would understand business models involving free content, but pull back from the bleeding edge of tech and you’ll find many people who don’t understand how business is conducted online. Chris Anderson’s book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, is a great introduction on the concept. [...]
Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford Law Professor who created Creative Commons, talks about the terror of control of creativity. In his opinion, it’s a battle between read-write culture (meaning consumers could also create) vs. read only culture (meaning consumers could only consume while those who OWN culture could be the only creators). Not only is this [...]
The metaphor for BufWiki is a snowball pushed from a mountain. See I made a teeny tiny snowball at the top, pushed, and clasped my hands over my mouth as I watched what happened. Here are some stories from watching the chaos. In Toronto, they have a cool wiki about their city and the guy [...]
So, there I was, at a conference, when I says to Kari Dunn Saratovsky, “Hey, wanna be my friend on Facebook cuz you are pretty smart and cool.” She eyes me warily, but does the professional thing and friends me. So, laters I’m browsing Facebook when I see she posted about TweetsGiving. I’m shocked, stunned, [...]
I have been telling myself since I got to Buffalo, “Someone should make a BufWiki like the one in Rochester!” Then I realized this when I’ve heard others speak this way, I respond with, “That someone should be you.” So, I decided to make one. I gathered the smartest minds in the business – oh [...]
I created a video for my office to help them understand mail merge, since I was leaving the position. Despite years of me saying it was important for them to understand how to do this, they never learned; so, they were nervous about me leaving and not being able to do mail merge in the [...]
Now that we all are about to be forced to change to digital television and digital connections, what’s going to happen to those analog airwaves? They don’t just disappear. In my opinion, a battle will be waged over whether to license them or not. Those who want them licensed will of course expect an exorbitant [...]
I FINALLY decided to join Wikipedia because of two books I’ve read: Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies and Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. They talk about ways that individuals can affect organizations and how organizations can participate in collaborative, social media. I follow the author of the [...]
So I felt it was time to stop talking about creating communities and create one. When I lived in Rochester (way back in June), I really appreciated RocWiki. It provided an insiders look at places that I hadn’t even know and gave historical context to what I did know about the place I’ve lived for [...]
Since my last post, I’ve been without my computer. Not that I’ve been a consistent poster, but so far it looks like it’s going to be a while before I’m back.
Millennials are using their mobile phones to be social – in other words, the mobile phone is an extension of their social selves. Now the challenge is to set-up infrastructure *cough twitter status* and a revenue model that pays for these services. From Go Mobile Young Millennials, Go Mobile – GigaOM & Virtual Worlds News: [...]
Brands and Worlds. Who’s the Daddy? : Kzero This is an excellent article on RL brands and virtual worlds. Trys to answer the question: “Do brands need VW?” How Second Life Affects Real Life – TIME This article summarizes research on how having an avatar affects how you view yourself in RL. For example, if [...]
So I’ve been Rest of Lifeing a lot lately – medical issues, blah blah blah. Anyway, I got this notecard and thought I’d share: 1. Organizing without organizations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgeYWY09LE8 Author Clay Shirky on his book “Here comes everybody: the power of organizing without organizations”: (video about 45 minutes; a short intro to the book is [...]
