a blog about information
There’s money flowing from log cabins to the White House. I quote from the Washington Post: Sen. Barack Obama has set a new online record, raising more than $28 million online in one month. To put this into context, Howard Dean, known as the first Internet candidate, raised $27 million — during his whole campaign. … Continue reading “The $32 million dollar question”
The diagram above is from an article headlined “The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You” which appeared in Wired about a year ago. Go read the original, the diagram is interactive and instructive. Why instructive? After all, doesn’t everyone in the blogosphere know about ping servers, … Continue reading “Musing about enterprise information and flow”
I can remember a time when people thought e-mail was a complete waste of time. I can remember a time when spreadsheets and storyboarding software were similarly disdained. In fact, I can even remember a time when no senior executive would be seen dead near a computer. You know something? It wasn’t that long ago, … Continue reading ““Interesting, but of no commercial value”: The problem with emerging social media tools: A Saturday Evening Post”
I’ve written two posts about capillary conversations so far (linked for your convenience here and here), and they seem to have elicited a reasonable level of comment and question. Three questions seem to repeat themselves: How often should I tweet? What should I tweet about? When should I take the conversation offline? These are not … Continue reading “Thinking about capillary conversations and choice”
I’ve been playing around with FoxyTunes, installing it in Firefox, getting the TwittyTunes extension. And it’s not just because I like music. I think what’s happening here is very powerful. Let’s start with Twitter, it looks harmless and gormless, what possible use could it have? After all, what can you do in 140 characters? Let’s … Continue reading “Capillaries can carry compressed context”