a blog about information
Dominic Sayers, an old friend, erstwhile colleague and fellow cricket-lover, commented today on a post I’d written sometime earlier on “learning from the comments people leave on my blog“. What he said was: I thought you would enjoy this quote from a Cricinfo article today: “Kaif was cruising on 91 when Panesar stunned him with … Continue reading “Musing about YouTube moments”
Looks like a week is a long time in politics and in social software. Last week I wrote about using Facebook as a proxy for looking at 21st century adoption curves. So far, I haven’t been able to collect information about usage or about age breakdowns, but I’m sure that will be possible soon enough. … Continue reading “More on 21st century adoption curves”
Some time ago I wrote a few posts about organisations and platforms, and considered the possibility of each firm becoming an open multisided platform. You can find the posts here, here and here. Over the last month or so, I’ve landed up spending far too much time at airports, partially as a result of a … Continue reading “Musing on organisations and platforms”
Being Indian, and having lived there for half my life, I’m used to people chatting for a while before getting down to business, as it were. Relationships first. Then conversations as a result of relationships. And finally, only where necessary, transactions. Cluetrain. Markets are conversations. (Doc has a Nigerian pastor story that shows how universal … Continue reading “of relationships, conversations and transactions”
My thanks to Chris “Rageboy” Locke for making sure I saw this “map” of online communities: Interesting map. You can find the original here. I looked at it with Saturday morning eyes, and was struck by the following: One, it represents many generations, but the generations are often isolated. Neither Orla, my 21 year old … Continue reading “Where generations meet”