a blog about information
Do you remember enterprise application integration? Those were the days. First you paid to bury your information in someone’s proprietary silo, then you paid to excavate it from there, then you paid again to bury it again in someone else’s silo. Everybody was happy. Except for the guys paying the bills. I went to see … Continue reading “Freewheeling about excavating information and stuff like that”
I blame James Governor, Tim O’Reilly and Ross Mayfield for this post. James first got me thinking about the phenomenon of asymmetry in modern communications as a result of DMing me a few days ago with his Asymmetric Follow post, an absolute must-read. He then followed it up with another, looking at Dopplr rather than … Continue reading “Musing about politeness and “continuous partial asymmetry””
Some time ago, Ivo Gormley, a young and gifted filmmaker, came to see me about a project he was working on, on participative citizenship, mass collaboration and the internet, and their implications on government as we know it. That project became Us Now, a one-hour documentary produced by Banyak Films. It had its premiere at … Continue reading “Working with dummies”
Twitter stayed up throughout the Mumbai terrorist crisis; at least that’s the way it seemed to me, everything just worked. Never spotted the Whale. And then today, a few minutes ago, there it was, in all its splendiferous glory, reproduced here for newcomers: Sightings are getting rarer and more fleeting. So, according to traditional scarcity … Continue reading “Missing the Whale: Will we soon pay to see it?”
Andy Gibson of School Of Everything (disclosure: I’m an investor and board member) pinged me via this post. I was asked to list five things I do to keep myself mentally well (which I do below), to link to the Mindapples site (which I just did) and to invite, publicly, five others to do the … Continue reading “Five-a-day mental habits”