September 2009
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Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to... →
The link is to the MP3 (60MB), which if you have time and you’re interested in what the future of newspapers may look like is well worth a listen.
For a discussion and full transcript of the audio see this story at the Nieman Journalism Lab.
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Incredible photo slideshow of Sydney dust storm →
I know there have been many of these floating around but some of these images just deserve to be seen again and again.
Courtesy of MarchingAnts’ Flickr account
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Free-wheelin Whelan! →
A friend of mine from Uni has started a Tumblr - yay for Liv! Can’t wait to hear all about life in Frankfurt, liberally sprinkled with some Tumbled randomness :)
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Watch“Use our robot to talk to MPs. Commissioned by v, the National Young Volunteers Service, we’re offering 16-25s the chance to talk to their MPs in an innovative way. They tell us what they care about, and the robot will write it out in Parliament. Nifty, huh?”
It’s very hard to elicit behavioural change from people if their current behaviour can’t be made concrete. I...
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“Purpose is overrated.
Many communities with weak or no real purpose do just...”
– Richard Millington with more smart thinking from FeverBee.
The psychological needs people express in their community participation are as old as the hills, even if the ways and means they express them change with every passing technological innovation.
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“Traditional marketing is about pushing messages out to people who don’t want...”
– Nicely distilled sentiment about new marketing from alexjcampbell
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Future of Open Source: Collaborative Culture →
This piece from WIRED magazine discusses a present and future with collaborative potential. It also raises the issue of who owns what in collaborative open-source communities, which will remain a…
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Et tu, KK? (aka, No, Kevin, this is not... →
Absolutely fascinating discussion on the complexities of the word socialism and its use in relation to new forms of web social organisation.
I agree that Lessig gets it wrong but I found reading…
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Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess →
Fabulous WIRED article that takes a look into the strangely archaic world of Craigslist. There is something strangely, beautifully simplistic about the site, that notwithstanding the frustrations…
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Wikipedia isn't about human potential, whatever... →
Article from the Guardian last year (2008) counseling us against getting too carried away with accounts of Jimmy ‘Jimbo’ Wales’ philanthropic and altruistic tendencies
Future of Journalism Conference: Twitter, the new... →
I love the phrase used in this article, shovelware. This refers to how news companies are failing to grow community through new channels but are simply seeking to grow page impressions by shoveling…
Shirky: Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free... →
This article raises some incredibly interesting points without daring to suggest a way forward. The fact that it was written in 2003 is all the more startling on the one hand - because it seems still…
MediaShift . The Great Debate on Micropayments and... →
More great writing about why micropayments wont work for the news industry
Nick Szabo -- The Mental Accounting Barrier to... →
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“You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other...”
– Zig Ziglar (via hammarstrand)
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Future of Newspapers: Profitless? Go Wireless →
A WIRED article that doesn’t go into sufficient detail as to future revenue streams for the newspaper industries, but is nonetheless thought-provoking.
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Future of Journalism Conference: Newsroom view of... →
What will the newsrooms of the future look like?
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“The whole reason the web revolutionized the world was that it rendered geography...”
– This is from a Clive Thompson WIRED article called Future of the Web: Location, location, location.
It reminds me of the same sense of freedom from bodily identity that first characterised the early writing about the web. Of course, back then the frontier myth was that the way you looked...
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“Show us too many sick kids, unfair imprisonments or burned bodies and you won’t...”
– Seth Godin on the enormity of social problems paralysing people rather than spurring them on to act. (via somethingchanged)
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“Online communities are not cheap. They can get rather expensive.
You have to...”
– The ever-insightful Rich Millington on the cost/benefit analysis of community. Seriously, if you care about community building and you haven’t read Rich’s blog yet, do yourself a favour and get over to Feverbee now.
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“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
– Vidal Sassoon
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“I vote that we stop dismissing Twitter just because the majority of people who...”
– Danah Boyd, social media researcher for Microsoft and a fellow at the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, discussing criticisms of online activism as just slacktivism (from Cause Global: Social Media for Social Change)
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“Why you should implement social media guidelines in your business now:
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– Brian Solis over at PR 2.0, ‘Implement Social Media Guidelines, Now’
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The psychology of community design
Designing For Social Traction
View more documents from Joshua Porter.
Great insight. If you want people to become members and then engaged supporters of your community you need to be able to motivate them enough to care about what you do.
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WatchThis video is:
Heart-achingly beautiful.
Raw and live.
Emotionally affective.
Fucking cool.
Tick all that apply.
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WatchI haven’t updated my Wordpress blog Come Together as often as I’d like, not because I don’t feel like I have things to write about but because I’m struggling to find the time to write about them in ways that others might find either entertaining, instructive or insightful.
So I’m going to be using tumble together like a little sketchpad, a space to think out loud...