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Defrag: Deconstructing the social Web

David Weinberger of the Harvard Berkman Center and author of "Everything is Miscellaneous" kicked of the Defrag conference with a talk titled "The Rise of the Implicit." His thesis is that we have a natural tendency to focus on what's explicit, but the explicit has certain characteristics that mislead us...

Tags: Web, Knowledge, Media, Intelligence, Conference, Weinberger, Semantic Web, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Internet, Management, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-05

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Killing cancer with social media

Thank you so much for your support.What I've really learned is that as silly as some people make things like Twitter and Facebook out to be...they are amazingly strong platforms for connecting people. And this isn't me starting a social network for people caring about cancer, this has gotten...

Tags: social media

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

A List: CRM(ish) Reading Worth it.

Sorry to have dropped off the radar for awhile. I was on the road.  First in Chicago having facilitated a customer event with Sword Ciboodle customers at the Union League Club - one that included a presentation by Brian Carey of Sears on what Sears is doing to improve the...

Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Social Media, Customer, CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-09-28

Richard Waters showcases the 'world wise web'

At the risk of getting tied in knots by timezones (x-8 to get on ZDNet's blog publishing timezone is hard when you only have two hands and need to keep typing...) and the distribution schedules of the print media, let me begin... Richard Waters writes in this...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Artificial Intelligence, Tim Berners-Lee, Vision, Advance, Richard Waters, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Finding conversational marketing's heartbeat

Eight years ago, Chris Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger presented the The Cluetrain Manifesto, which came up with the phrase that in the Internet age "markets are conversations." Now Peter Hirshberg, chairman of Technorati, and Steve Hayden, vice-chairman of Ogilvy & Mather...

Tags: Conversation, Marketing, Advertisement, Brand, Conversational Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Skeptical reader: Andrew Keen's big ideas

On the last afternoon of the Supernova Conference, David Weinberger and fellow ZD Net blogger Andrew Keen, debated the question, "Disorder: Feature or Bug?" Unfortunately, they didn't actually manage to demonstrate a definitive answer to that question, because all we learned was that they disagreed. Chris Heuer took notes. Keen,...

Tags: Business &, Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-28

People law trumps the power law

Britt Blaser has a remarkable post on power laws and social networks that lays out where real power lies in the Web. Britt starts with five principles although some might consider that word too strong: The size of your audience confers limited power A networks...

Tags: Long Tail, Britt Blaser, People Law

Blog posts 2007-03-20

Adobe is "Engaging" bloggers - here's what to look for

Adobe invited a bunch of bloggers to visit campus this week Tuesday and part of Wednesday for their Engage event and a look at what companies are doing with Adobe technologies. If youve been following the company, a lot of what youll hear is probably not new information. However...

Tags: Scrybe, Virtual Ubiquity, Rich Internet Applications, Adobe, Flex, Apollo

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Taxonomy: Will practice make perfect?

Renee Blodgett points to the upcoming Taxonomy Boot Camp, where David Weinberger author of the upcoming Everything Is Miscellaneous will be giving the keynote. Davids thoughts are always useful and frequently blindingly insightful. Id like to be at the conference, but have a conflict. So, Ill just inject the comments...

Tags: taxonomy, blog

Blog posts 2006-10-16

Digital ID World recap: final thoughts

Its now almost a full month since Digital ID World is over and done, and my thoughts about what happened are finally starting to coalesce. "Starting" - I said, and this post I hope reflects that beginning. The primary "big move" that Im coming away with is the idea that...

Tags: metaphor, identity

Blog posts 2006-10-09

Calculating the ROI of corporate blogging

Charlene Li of Forrester is working on a framework for measuring the ROI of blogging for organization, especially those that are concerned about the possible risks of have less control over information flow. Among the benefits she cites are lower-cost public relations, reaching influential enthusiast communities, increased responsiveness to consumer...

Tags: Public relations, ROI/TCO, blogging, ROI

Blog posts 2006-10-03

Should the online world reflect the "real" world?

Much is being written around the thread of conversation that David Weinberger started and I responded to. I resolved long ago never to speak publicly about "privacy," as the conversation seems to immediately dive into a black-hole of nothingness. However, at the risk of falling into the same hole around...

Tags: anonymity

Blog posts 2006-08-15

Anonymity and identity

Anonymity and identitydefaultsEric, defaults are not binary. They are a way of talking about a baseline expectation and what requires justification in a highly non-binary world. So, let me take it out of sw lingo. In the real world, and currently on line, you need a special reason to...

Tags: identity

Discussion threads 2006-08-10

Anonymity and identity

In the very near wake of a foiled terrorist plot, I find myself waking up, planning to write about the topic of anonymity and identity. The original impetus for my post is a recent article by David Weinberger. In that article, David argues for anonymity as a "default" in the...

Tags: anonymity, identity

Blog posts 2006-08-10

What are we talking about when we talk about CGM?

What are we talking about when we talk about CGM?That quote was me, restating a quote fromDavid Weinberger, from Cluetrain Manifesto.thanks!Craigcraig@craigslist.orgThanks for the confirmation, CraigDavid, I believe, would point out that the phrase was Doc Searls, Chris Locke and Rick Levine, too...I think your point about technology needing to be...

Tags: CGM, Craig

Discussion threads 2006-06-25

IT industry overregulated like heathcare?

The IT industry is strikingly similar to the health care industry and faces similar risks from government regulation, Alan Weinberger of the ASCII Group writes in an op-ed for the San Jose Mercury News. IT service professionals look for the best solution to enable IT to meet needs...

Tags: physician, information technology

Blog posts 2006-05-10

Is the Network Neutrality bill in trouble?

After a day at the Freedom2Connect conference outside Washington, I am afraid that Senetor Ron Wyden's Network Neutrality bill may be going nowhere this year.It's not that the legislation has no merit. It has great merit. It's not that the idea of Bell companies violating net neutrality, favoring some content...

Tags: Cable, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network Neutrality

Blog posts 2006-04-03

Open Spectrum: Who really wants ubiquitous bandwidth?

The Progress and Freedom Foundation released a report on why property rights, not the public commons, is the right approach for the future of spectrum allocation. We leave the analysis of this to John Paczkowski of the Mercury News' Good Morning, Silicon Valley: Ironic isn't it,...

Tags: Open, SPECTRUM

Blog posts 2006-03-16

Conflicts and passions

There's a lot of heat in the media today about disclosure, over a story that needs to be written now and again which isn't such a big deal. Doc Searls says he sees the question of blogger disclosure as "a typical, predictable, stir-the-shit mainstream journal's dig against blogging." But...

Tags: Blogging, Davids, blogosphere

Blog posts 2006-02-09

Favorite Web books of all time

I enjoyed Tim O'Reilly's post the other day about a Microsoft advert (popup image - via O'Reilly Radar) that ran in PC Magazine. The ad showed a developer sitting in front of a bookcase, which included an O'Reilly book that had been visibly cropped by the Microsoft ad agency....

Tags: Web

Blog posts 2006-01-31