Author: JP

A little slice of my favourites on my iPod

In no particular order, but maybe it lets you get inside my head just that little bit more.

  • Today I Killed A Man I Didn’t Know…. White Plains
  • (I’m) On the Road to Freedom…. Alvin Lee and Mylon Lefevre
  • Thoughts about Roxanne….John Mayall
  • Angry Eyes….Loggins and Messina
  • Maybe…. Dave Mason
  • Twas a Sunny Day….Paul Simon
  • The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys….Traffic
  • May You Never….John Martyn
  • Photographs and Memories….Jim Croce
  • How Far….Stephen Stills

Foundations underlying the Four Pillars: Setting the scene

If you haven’t done so already, you must read The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov.

I’d like to pay Mr Asimov some form of homage and see whether I can construct the Four Pillar Foundations using the same book headings: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. This is neither meant to be pompous (in no way do I see my posts competing with Asimov’s elegant prose) nor contrived (I genuinely saw a three-layer foundation and particularly liked the chance to use the word “empire” in its new context). Thank you Isaac Asimov for making me dream many years ago.

In Foundation, I want to cover the implications of Moore, Metcalfe, and Gilder (note the use of the Oxford comma there, purists!) and set the scene with virtualisation, service orientation and commoditisation.

In Foundation and Empire I want to show what has happened to erstwhile participants in the market (even if they haven’t figured it out yet) and the move towards platform independence, device agnosticism and telephony-becoming-software.

In Second Foundation I want to bring in democratised innovation, consumerisation and market-driven “conversational” standards.

The Four Pillars of Syndication, Search, Fulfilment and Collaboration/Conversation stand four square on these foundations.

More to follow this week.

More on the need for accuracy in words and terms and metaphors

I just came across this by Jon Udell. Well worth a read.

Unless we get the words and images right, we are going to face many uphill struggles, maybe even upmountain ones. [See earlier post on blogs and anchors, frames and metaphors. ]

Co-creation

It’s worth taking a look at this from Newsweek. More shape-of-things-that-are-here. And the buzzphrase machine is in overdrive.

Look ma no DRM

While wandering around the 37signals space, I found this blog, Loudthinking by David Heinemeier Hansson, and came across this post.

So let me get this right. They think they make 10 times as much selling their books direct electronic in comparison with traditional ways. Go Grateful Dead. Go Arctic Monkeys.

Thin market, complex product, proves nothing, I hear you say.

But that’s not all. If I have interpreted some of the comments correctly, they sold the electronic versions in pdf format without DRM.

Wow. Careful with that ax, Eugene…..