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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””
[Apologies in advance. I woke up at 1am, unable to go back to sleep, with no cricket to watch, with the residue of San Francisco time still in me, and so I started writing from the hip.] I think of many things as projects; in doing so, I use what I assume to be fairly … Continue reading “Musing jetlaggedly about loss of control”
Henry Ford is credited with saying something along the lines of “If I’d asked people what they wanted, they’d have said ‘faster horses’ “. That particular quotation gets trotted out fairly religiously every time the issue of the innovator’s dilemma comes up, helping to point out the apparent perils of listening to the customer. Henry … Continue reading “Faster horses in the age of co-creation”
When I was around ten years old, my father introduced me to this poem: It was an inflection point for me. Until then, I had always thought of poets as creative people who expressed themselves in verse when caught by the muse; as artists who penned off heaps of poems in seconds flat as and … Continue reading “Musing about Alliteration”
Over the last couple of years, I’ve noticed that my reading has become more and more heterogeneous and spread out; there has been a perceptible shift away from an A-list approach to a Long Tail, avoiding the “hit culture” implied by A-list approaches. During that same period, there have been a number of articles about … Continue reading “The importance of publish-subscribe”