Wishful thinking ahoy

Jeff Jarvis says that, even if everybody doesn’t “get it”* (which the Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger thinks they do):

everybody realizes they have to [innovate].
Jeff’s talking in the context of newspapers, and I dunno, maybe he’s right. Personally, I still know a hell of a lot of newspaper folk who truly don’t realise that they have to […]

Cookie Dominatrix, Part Two

I wrote about Cookie Dominatrix, Part One, here. Cookie Dominatrix, Part Two, is now online. I love when Sandra talks about how she can’t get Tollhouse chocolate chips in her part of Van Nuys, because it’s just such a gringo product, but that in addition to the 99 Cent Store, they now have the 49 […]

Antoine on the democratisation of politics

Patrick Crozier did a podcast of Antoine’s talk last night to the 6/20 gathering. He covered cheque book politics in the US and UK, how the Democrats’ fan base (but not the Democratic party itself) is doing the best job of any political group of making good use of emergent technologies, the illegitimacy of democracy, […]

Broken business models old and new

Ice was a fantastic business, for two thousand years… they were probably having conferences like this, talking about ice ponds and straw and shipping routes…Then in 1873 a guy named Perkins invented refrigeration. And your ice business was dead.
Michael Rosenberg, quoted from Doc Searls’ shortterm memory, speaking at the IMA conference in Boston, where people […]

Why Doc Searls doesn’t use “Web 2.0″

When asked a long time ago to define what it meant to me, I said it’s the name we’ll give to the next crash.

Jackboot 2.0

Adriana is writing about how dictators have entered the world of Web 2.0, and how companies like Yahoo, Cisco, Microsoft, and Google are helping to enforce the oppression. She adds a bit of her own life experience, as someone who grew up under a totalitarian regime, to the analysis.
I have often said, although have not […]

The new web in five minutes

It’s the fastest five minutes I’ve ever spent on YouTube, interestingly, and really cheered me up. I’d love to show this (via Guido) to all of the people who love to tell me how there’s nothing especially interesting or earth-shattering about what we are now doing online. Oh, really?

Talk to Cory Doctorow

My brilliant friend Tracy Sheridan has managed to nab writer and digital rights expert Cory Doctorow for the next Waxxi interactive podcast. As well as being co-editor of Boing Boing, Cory is also one of the brightest online pioneers, having been writing and giving away his books on the web (and making a lot of […]

Time’s Person of the Year: Yawn

I’m with Jeff Jarvis on this one.

VNU Online Information Conference

I will be presiding over the lunchtime social media roundtable at VNU’s Online Information Conference tomorrow at Olympia. I’ve also roped the affable Antony Mayfield into helping me out there, so if you’re going to be at the conference, do stop in to our area and say hello.

Social Media Club London

I’m going to be hosting the next meeting of the Social Media Club’s London chapter, coming up next Wednesday on the 15th. We are pretty close to capacity for this event, but if you’d like to be there, email me (dynamist AT gmail DOT com) and I will make sure you get a place at […]

“UGC”

I love this, from Michael Rosenblum:
I think it only fair to point out to our friend at the RTS that Harry Potter was ‘user generated content’, that JK Rowling was not a ‘professional’. In the world of print, which produces some pretty good stuff, EVERYTHING is ‘user generated’. Soon, the same will be true in […]

More on the mp3 player market

Mobile expert/influencer Tomi Ahonen has chipped in on the debate I started here when I noted Tomi’s contention that Apple’s market share of the portable mp3 player market is less than 20 per cent. Tomi’s remarks and data do illustrate just how insular our views of how ‘people’ do things can be. Some highlights:

The first […]

The reality of the mp3 player market

Dave Winer:
To think that today’s iPod isn’t the leader in the market is to be in denial.
Actually, it’s to have access to the facts and actual data; the iPod is by far not the market-leader in portable mp3-playing devices. Their global market share is under 19%. Tomi Ahonen, mobile expert and member of my […]