[mesh] Michael O’Connor Clarke
Yesterday at the Mesh conference I caught the second half of Michael O’Connor Clarke‘s presentation, to a packed house, about how not to use social media for marketing. I’ve known Michael since the...
View ArticleDistribution models that work. Are we finally getting it (them) right?
Is it just me, or are we in a period when new distribution models are burgeoning? For example: 1. Kickstarter, of course, but not just for startups trying to kickstart their business. For example,...
View Article[aspen] The new professionalism
I’m at the Aspen Ideas Festival, at a panel on how professionalism has changed. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness....
View Article[aspen] Amanda Michel and Matt Thompson on how the media have changed recently
Amanda Michel, who I know from her time at the Berkman Center, is being interviewed by Matt Thompson. She’s pretty amazing: Howard Dean campaign, Huffpo’s Off the Bus, Pro Publica, and now social media...
View Article[aspen][2b2k] Ideo’s Tim Brown
Tim Brown of Ideo is opening his Aspen Ideas Festival talk with a slide presentation called “From Newton to Design”. He says he’s early in thinking it through. He points to a problem in how we’ve...
View ArticleDoc Searls: WSJ centerfold!
Actually, it’s more like Doc Searls: Wall Street Journal Cover Boy! It’s a testament to Doc and also a hopeful sign of the times that the WSJ today features on its weekend cover a story by Doc about...
View ArticleThree vendors and/or products to love: Computer parts, music, electric...
I wanted to replace the smashed screen of a white MacBook, and found what seemed like a very good price from Wegener. The new screen arrived very quickly, and was exactly as described. But when I...
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Unstartling presentation
Oy. I fell for an ad today because it promised to tell me four startling things that happen to you before you get a heart attack. The video, which has no pause or fast forward button, is a grating...
View ArticleAre brands people, my friends?
The always thoughtful Terry Heaton [twitter:TerryHeaton] has posted a provocative thesis, which is expressed in the post’s title: “How Brands Can Behave as People (And Why They Should).” Terry writes:...
View ArticleSubverting ads
I’m a sucker for ads that comment on the dishonesty of ads. For example, I laughed at this one from Newcastle Brown Ale: I also really liked this one as well: I do have a duck-rabbit disagreement with...
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Guess who lost the right to complain about Yelp reviews?
Yeah, I’m talking to you Scrub-a-dub. Way to corrupt the system.
View Article[2b2k] Popular Science incompetently manages its comments, gives up
Popular Science has announced that it’s shutting down comments on its articles. The post by Suzanne LeBarre says this is because ” trolls and spambots” have overwhelmed the useful comments. But what I...
View ArticleHow to introduce a change in its user agreement
Reddit shows us how to introduce changes in a site’s user agreement. The agreement itself is admirably minimally jargony, but the discussion with the community is a model of honesty and respect.
View ArticleThis Week in Law: Not all that legal
On Friday I was part of the This Week in Law vidcast, hosted by my it’s-been-too-long friend Denise Howell [twitter: dhowell], along with Nina Paley [twitter: gorgeous + righteous. You must see it....
View Article[liveblog] CV Harquail on generative business
I’m at a lunchtime talk by the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative (led by Colin Maclay) by CV Harquail. (I’m an advisor to the DigInit.) CV says she is a academic and am enthusiast of...
View Article[2b2k] The Harvard Business School Digital Initiative’s webby new blog
The Harvard Business School Digital Initiative [twitter:digHBS] — led by none other than Berkman‘s Dr. Colin Maclay — has launched its blog. The Digital Initiative is about helping HBS explore the many...
View ArticleNew Clues
The project with Doc that I mentioned is a new set of clues, following on The Cluetrain Manifesto from 16 years ago. The clues are designed as an open source publishing project: The text is in the...
View ArticleJoining Reddit
Reddit is in flames. I can only see one way out of it that preserves the site’s unique value. I say this as an old man who loves Reddit despite being way outside its main demographic. Of course there...
View ArticleHow far wrong has the Net gone? A podcast with Mitch Joel
My friend Mitch Joel and I talk for about an hour (sorry) about whether our hopes for the Net have proven to be forlorn. You can listen here. The spur for this conversation was my recent article in The...
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