June 2007
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Wimbledon In London: No Hotel Rooms
So I had to scramble to get a hotel room in London, at the last minute. Only one hotel was showing any availability for the three nights I was scheduled to be here under $1000/night:
It’s pretty damn tight in my little shoebox, The Hogarth London Kensington. And you would not believe what I had to pay.
The good news is that its in Earls Court, near my favorite pub: The King’s ...
Lebanese Blonde - Thievery Corporation
Dm+ {x.5.7.5.5.5} Am+ {5.0.5.5.5.5} Am7+ {5.0.5.5.5.9} Am+ {x.0.2.0.0.0}
Dm……………..Dm+/Dm/Dm+ Too low to find my way Am+……………………..Am7+ Too high to wonder why Dm………………….Dm+/Dm/Dm+ I’ve touched this place before...
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Ethan Kaplan on Apple's Trojan Horse
A post from blackrimglasses in its entirety:
[Apple passes Amazon to become the #3 US music retailer]
Apple passes Amazon to become the #3 US music retailer - Engadget: this is the only real review of the iPhone (or AppleTV for that matter) that matters. The devices are secondary (although from what I understand and know, they are amazing). What is more important is the Apple trojan horse...
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LinkedIn and Plaxo: Adapt or Die
Dan Farber’s scoop about LinkedIn’s plans to adapt to the new world that Facebook is making is almost anticlimatic:
[from � LinkedIn to open up to developers | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com by Dan Farber]
I talked to LinkedIn founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman on Friday at the Supernova 2007 conference about Facebook’s rapid growth and potential incursion into his territory. He...
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Technobabble's Top 50 analyst bloggers
Technobabble’s Top 50 Analysts post has been updated to include me. Using a formula that I admit I don’t understand, I wound up in second place, trailing Charlene Li and Josh Benoff by a hair.
I like the fact that the soloist leads a bunch of the companies.
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Enemies Of The Future
Kent Newsome is waiting for an answer to a recent question:
[from Attention Convention]
I tend to favor Stowe’s argument [where I call a detractor “an enemy of the future”], but there is a little hole in it we need to plug. Stowe says to Dave “I agree with you about trolls. There are people out there who are the enemies of the future (as Virginia Postrel styled it...
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Laurent Haug Joins The Attention Economists
Inspired by Steve Rubel’s recent post on the Attention Crash, now Laurent Haug (of Lift) has started to gripe about his attention as a ‘precious resource’ (although I do agree with him about dropping his LinkedIn account, for totally different reasons):
[from The Attention Bubble]
As our time becomes the most precious resource we have, the millions of web pages competing...
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Scoble on Jaiku/Twitter/Facebook/Kyte/Plaxo =...
Scoble provides thumbnails on a bunch of social presence apps, including hints about an upcoming Plaxo release (I am getting a demo on Friday).
The whole sector is heating up, so the October Social Presence Summit is looking really good.
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/Talkshow: Jeremie Miller of Wikia Open Search...
I recently reencountered Jeremie Miller, the initial guy behind the Jabber protocol, whos is now working with Jimmie Wales on the Wikia Open Search project. I will be interviewing him tomorrow next Thursday at 10:30am PT on /Talkshow.
Call in 718 508-9560 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 718 508-9560 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or join the show stream.
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Twitter
Of course, now that I have 310 Followers at Twitter, I checked at Twitterholic and you need over 400 Followers to be in the top 100. I need another few hundred followers. Please help. It’s petty, but there it is.
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Douglas Adams
It is no coincidence that in no known language of the galaxy does there exist the expression ‘as beautiful as an airport’.
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David Weinberger, Andrew McAfee, and... (thud) IBM
At the Enterprise 2.0 conference, and I will not be blogging a lot, but I have hit my first dislocation.
David was wonderful, and recapped the messages of his new book, Everything is Miscellaneous, leaving us on a wonderful philosophical slight-of-hand: when everything is miscellaneous — when all information is both information and a means to makes sense of it — and the means to...
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Paul Kedrosky on iPhone Battery: Two Billion...
Paul has a great one-liner following news from Apple:
[from iPhone Battery: Two Billion Dollars an Hour]
Apple closed up 3.8% today, gaining $4-billion largely on word that its battery life will be about two hours longer than expected. Apparently an hour of battery life is worth $2-billion these days. That’s good to know.
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Newspaper site reformation 1.1
I more or less agreed with Ketcheson in his problems with wikis, yesterday. Wikis are conceptually great — a way for people to collaborate a la’ Wikipedia — on whatever sort of endeavor. However, I think most things that we want to collaborate on are not like Wikipedia, and as a result, the actual nuts-and-bolts reality of wikis just wind up being a barrier to collaboration....
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Newspaper site reformation 1.1
This is dumb. Why can’t I join more than one regional network on Facebook? Another reason why groupings (ad hoc collections of people based on shared attributes) are better than groups (defined, membership-based collections of people).
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel, for fear of being called different.
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Attention Convention
Over at Groundhog Day, David Rogers demonstrates that he is pretty bitter. He lumps me together with Clay Shirky and Doc Searls (which I am ok with) as fringe lunatic types who seem to think that the Internet can do good things. Yes, I think so.
[from Competing Messages: What Matters?]
[editorial: Apparently Doc called David up and asked if he wanted to work on Vendor Relationship...
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Tattoo Regret
Story in the NY Times this morning says that 17% of tattooed Americans regretted it: tattoo regret.
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Is Facebook defacing itself?
I have deleted requests for various Facebook add-ons, particularly SuperPoke and Fortune Cookies. I don’t really use the built in poke that much, so SuperPoke is a non-starter.
I like the idea of sharing things like book reveiws, but sending noogies to people isn’t me.
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Meetro does IM Geolocation (hey, kinda like us!)
In a move that I am pretty sure was an operator error, I emailed dozens (maybe hundreds?) of people yesterday, inviting them to join Meetro, the geoloco instant messaging solution. The invitation screen said something like “invite your buddies from AIM” and I selected it. I was presented a screen of like five people, and I carefully deselected all of them, and then hit...
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More Thoughts On Blogtalkradio
This post is a pastiche of several ideas I have been developing as a result of using the Blogtalkradio service over the past month or so.
Center of the Universe
The center of my universe is my buddylist, so in the perfect world I would like to pull my buddies into listening to the /Talkshows that I do.
I have been doing that manually, by pinging my Twitter network and by posts on my...
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/Talkshow: Today's Show Postponed
Due to a technical glitch, today’s show with Felix Petersen of Plazes is postponed.
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Jeff Pulver on Rebooting
Jeff has some good advice:
[from The Jeff Pulver Blog: Empower the Imagination: A time for Companies to Reboot, Refresh and Rethink]
I am convinced that just about ALL companies, large and small could benefit from engaging of the exercise of embracing innovation and creativity from within their own organizations. And not as a once-in-a-while exercise, but rather something that becomes part...
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Unveiling the new Jaiku Client for Nokia - Part 2
Steve Rubel is following the lead of many others into Toffler’s “information overload is driving us crazy” tarpit. He’s in good company, joined by Herbert Simon, Tom Davenport, and Linda Stone: the Attention Economists.
[from Micro Persuasion: The Attention Crash]
We are reaching a point where the number of inputs we have as individuals is beginning to exceed what...
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Steve Rubel Becomes Another Attention Economist
Steve Rubel is following the lead of many others into Toffler’s “information overload is driving us crazy” tarpit. He’s in good company, joined by Herbert Simon, Tom Davenport, and Linda Stone: the Attention Economists.
[from Micro Persuasion: The Attention Crash]
We are reaching a point where the number of inputs we have as individuals is beginning to exceed what we are...
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When gurus attack - Stowe Boyd gets defensive...
Linda Stone has an odd way of responding to the comments I made recently about Continuous Partial Attention in my Reboot talk, Flow: A New Consciousness For A Web Of Flow. I guess she must have a google search bot running for Continuous Partial Attention, and it led her to Stephanie Booth’s post about my talk. Fine. But she left a comment there addressed to me, as if it was my blog, not...
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Scary Milestone
A scary milestone today: things have gotten so busy — so many meetings everyday — that I changed my default view in Google Calendar from 4 weeks to 3 weeks so that I could see all the appointments for each day. Does that mean I am 4/3 more busy than before?
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/Talkshow: Felix Petersen of Plazes, 10:30am PT...
Felix Petersen of Plazes, will be on /Talkshow this week at 10:30am PT Thursday 14 June. We will be talking about the new Plazes release and the role of geolocation in a world of flow.
Options: You can access the streaming audio at the time of the show (but not before, grrr), you can call in to participate via phone (718 508-9560...
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Fooling With Facebook
I have been exploring a bunch of the new stuff on my Facebook account.
Question: Why does Facebook only allow me one blog to be imported? I write three, and they represent different sides of my character. This is a show stopper in the long run. I will move to Jaiku permanently, if they don’t fix this flaw.
I like the app integration. Here’s the results of a recent question I put up...
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It had to happen.....Consulting 2.0
Jevon poses some interesting questions about independent consulting in the form of a manifesto, which I synopsize:
[from Manifesto for an Emerging Consultant Counter Culture: Why Change?.
Here are some of my personal reasons for having stayed independent:
Own your ideas
Own your work
Freedom to decide
Personal space
The New World demands change
Get Paid More
Beaten up by the best
Take...
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Fragmented Complete Inattention - Flowparadox
A video of my presentation at Reboot courtesy of Nicolas Charbonnier (Charbax): It’s called “Flow: A New Consciousness For A Web Of Traffic.”
I am going to get a transcript made at some point. And you can download a PDF (cc - no commercial use, no derivatives, with attribution).
William James
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
Lant Prichett
[from Should We Globalize Labor Too? by Jason DeParle]
The arc of human history has been the broadening of the scope of human concern.
Social Presence Summit - Fall 2007
I am officially announcing the Social Presence Summit, a new one-day event dedicated to the tools and technologies of social presence (a la Twitter, Plazes, Facebook, and other more established technologies like instant messaging presence), and their impacts on society, media, and business.
Please join the Social Tools group at Facebook, and follow the topic there, if you are interested in...
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Social Tools Group on Facebook: Yet Another...
The Social Tools group that I started on Facebook last year has grown to 386 members without me really noticing. Yikes!
I started the group as a part of the experiential marketing project I was doing for Xing (then OpenBC). That project involved me theoretically using the Xing platform to find more consulting work in Europe, which led to zero leads coming through the Xing channel....
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Fred Wilson Still Loves Jet Blue, But ..
He’s not happy:
[from A VC: I Still Love Jet Blue, But ..]
Jet Blue has gotten too big for its britches.
Still way better than my recent go around with Virgin Atlantic. Of, by the way, here’s the email I got after complaining about my recent trip:
[via email]
“Customer.Relations.US@fly.virgin.com”
Thanks for writing to us.
This message has been sent automatically...
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Death of Clovis Culture
A scientific hypothesis about the extinction of various megafauna (Mammoths etc.) and the collapse of the Clovis paleolithic cultures that hunted them:
[from Diamonds tell tale of comet that killed off the cavemen | World | The Observer by Robin McKie]
Scientists will outline dramatic evidence this week that suggests a comet exploded over the Earth nearly 13,000 years ago, creating a hail...
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
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Left-Handed Social Commerce
We are all used to the norms of real-world commerce: I want to buy something, say a fold-up bike, so I have to find out what bike stores have such goods in stock, and I drive all over town checking them out, and trying to get a deal.
The web (1.0) changed that dynamic. I can search for fold-up bikes online, compare prices, search for reviews, and then order the bike of my dreams online....
Spinvox
My pal Euan Semple mentioned that Spinvox had changed his life: a service that converts voicemail to email by voice recognition. I thought I would give it a go.
I signed up, and finally got around to doing the set-up, which seemed deceptively simple. Just jigger your phone settings to forward unanswered calls to go to a Spinvox number dedicated to your voicemail. But, small problems started...
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Цензура против свободной прессы (или... Война с...
As just another example of old school media screwing up their attempt to gradually reinvent themselves as social media institutions, the Washington Post has disabled comments on their ombudsman’s, Deborah Howell’s blog:
[from washingtonpost.blog - The Editors Talk About Site Policies, Design and Goals] But there are things that we said we would not allow, including personal ...
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Jeremie Miller and Wikia Search
Jeremie Miller dropped me an email yesterday, letting me know he had looked for me while visiting 625 2nd Street in San Francisco. He was there meeting other folks with offices in the building. I asked what he was up to, and he responded that he is working with Jimmy Wales and the folks at Wikia on a new open source search platform:
[from Jabber Founder Jeremie Miller Joins Forces with...
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Update!! /Talkshow: Tony Conrad of Sphere at 11am...
Update: I goofed on dates. Turns out I asked Tony to be on the show tomorrow, 8 June, at 11am PT. So that’s when it will be.
I have Tony Conrad lined up as a guest for today’s tomorrow’s /Talkshow. Tony is founder and CEO of Sphere, a blog search technology. Tonay and I will be talking about Sphere and the future of search.
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Kevin Marks on Andrew Keen
I find little to like in Andrew Keen’s elitist writings, but Kevin Marks (bless him) can find something worthwhile there, despite all:
[from Keening for Culture]
This kind of Oxbridge cleverness for its own sake is part of the Guardian/BBC Platonist culture that sees its role to lead the uneducated masses to better themselves, while sneering at their plebian interests. Keen...
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Tor Nørretranders
A beautifully spare summation of Reboot by Trine-Marie Kristensen:
[from Jaiku]
Post reboot / / / people are streams (Tor) and connections are about flow (Stowe) and products are people too (Webb) .
Tor Nørretranders opening presentation was one of the standouts of Reboot, for me. The line “Sex is the origin of all that is noble” rang like a bell in my head for hours later, and...
Tor Nørretranders
Sex is the origin of all that is noble.
Albert Einstein
Remember your humanity and forget the rest.
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230ce or "The Flow"
Nicole Simon interviewed me for the upcoming Reboot conference, specifically about my talk (Flow: A New Consciousness For A Web Of Traffic), but also about the soul of the Reboot conference itself.
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Stowe Boyd on Web 2.0
I was interviewed a few weeks ago, by CIO.com’ Diann Daniel, at the Cutter Consortium’s Summit, where I presented a keynote on Web 2.0:
[from Stowe Boyd on Web 2.0 in the Enterprise - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership]
[…]
All the sudden you have this renaissance happening on the Web and with such technologies as open source challenging the established software ...