CULTURE: THE PATTERNS THAT EMERGE WHEN PEOPLE EXIST TOGETHER.
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Binary Code and Ambiguity
There's been a question floating around in my mind for the last few weeks and I'm really curious whether anyone has any thoughts. I believe there is more ambiguity in our world than there ever was and I've got a few reasons why: <li ...
October 30, 2006 |
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How Influential are Influentials?
I don't often do book reports around here, but I just got through Duncan Watts and Peter Sheridan Dodds' paper, <a href="http://c ...
January 28, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 8 COMMENTS
Is Anything New?
I was in a vendor presentation yesterday when the topic of WalMart came up. For anyone working in the marketing industry, this isn't a rare occurance, and in fact that was just the topic of conversation. "WalMartians," as the presenter referred to ...
January 24, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 4 COMMENTS
Me on Identity
The people at Trendbüro in Germany asked if I could asnswer some questions on identity in advance of a workshop they're doing. I said I'd be ...
April 14, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 6 COMMENTS
More Presentations (and Other Stuff)
So I'm really digging SlideShare at the moment. It's a great way to share presentations and the embed functionality is pretty killer. It's pretty hard to believe Google hasn't added embedability to it's pres ...
October 30, 2007 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
Muppet Sadness
I just read this article about Disney and the Muppets. I'm hoping to convince my mom to write her feelings about it for me to post (although she doesn't know that until now). She ...
May 10, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Nothing's Ever Cut and Dry
Mostly I find nostalgia annoying. Complaining about how things used to be only moves one further away from the real issues. In other words: Change happens, deal with it. Memory, it turns out, is a perfect topic for the nostalgic set. Ever s ...
September 27, 2007 | EMAIL | PRINT | 8 COMMENTS
Offensive Ideas
Do The Right Thing is one of my all-time favorite films. Spike Lee says some stuff in that movie that scares the vast majority of people. It tells a story of race relations in this country that I believe was accurate in 1989 and still holds ...
August 20, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 11 COMMENTS
On Demand Culture
There is probably no quantifiable way to prove that Americans are an impatient breed. We want what we want, when we want it, and we're willing to pay for the privilege. Today, companies rake in millions--sometimes billions--giving people ...
July 27, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Open Creative Communities and the Death of Zero Sum
Over the last two days I've read two things that have really wowed me. Both take things I've thought a lot about over the last six months and really push and articulate them far better than I have. Open Creative Communities When <a ...
February 28, 2007 | EMAIL | PRINT | 6 COMMENTS
Post-Location
Clearly one of the themes of the 21st century is the changing meaning of location. Whether you call it the flattening of the globe or something else, the point that we're liv ...
August 10, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 9 COMMENTS
Solving for Extremes
Yesterday I was having a conversation with a few friends, one of whom works for the city of New York. She was talking about the smoking and <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/1605143 ...
May 20, 2007 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
The Real Motivation
The other night I went to see Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson talk. At some point they started talking about Wikipedia and Jenkins said something that sparked ...
September 28, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 8 COMMENTS
Youth Evolving Online
A while back I asked people to make a list of sites they visit everyday. I was finding that there was an increasingly long list of places I visited daily and I was curious if others behaved similarly. What I found ended up changing much of my thin ...
October 14, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 12 COMMENTS