a blog about information
Everything changes. Now one of the changes that has intrigued me this past decade is in the nature of the technology adoption curve. Simply put, for most of my life, I was used to a particular adoption curve. In order to experiment with emerging technologies, you had to be 28-40, a high-achieving professional, working for … Continue reading “21st century technology adoption curves and Facebook and innovation”
A little while ago, I had the opportunity to talk to some people about multi-sided open platforms and their threat to traditional companies; the “traditional companies” I chose to speak about were eBay and Amazon, just to make a point; and I characterised the emergent competitor as follows: 25m participants, already an eighth the size … Continue reading “Freewheeling on organisations and platforms and Facebook”
Broadcast is not social You’re in a conversation with others in an open, public place. An airport, a railway station, a shopping mall. And then someone says something on the tannoy, for example about the train on platform 14 being delayed. It’s useful. It may even be useful to you. But it’s not social. The … Continue reading “When is media social?”
There’s mosquitoes on the river Fish are rising up like birds It’s been hot for seven weeks now Too hot to even speak now Did you hear what I just heard? Say it might have been a fiddle Or it could have been the wind But there seems to be a beat now I … Continue reading “The music never stopped”
Some of you have been conversing with me, not only via this blog, but also intermittently via other channels, principally facebook and twitter. Blogs are conversations about the provisional, and I learn from your comments and pointers. By now you’re used to my whims and vagaries. You know I try and write about information using … Continue reading “Thinking about cricket and open data and platforms”