In the world I work in we are forever trying to find context to the technology changes we are living in. This has caused me to do some deep thinking on where social media/networking/relevance will end up on the scale of impact on the human [...]
If you have not experimented with applications like FourSquare and Gowalla on your mobile device yet I suggest you load them and become familiar. I suspect that either, or both, of these companies will soon be acquired by much large platforms like Facebook, or companies like Google. Either than or [...]
I happen to be in a very unique position when it comes to book publishing. I may be one of the only people in the world to be doing three book projects all at once, and all in different publishing models. I am doing one with McGraw Hill in a [...]
As often happens, the next application that is likely to explode in usage was announced quietly, and will grow through viral user adoption. When Apple rolled out the list of new features on the iPhone 4.0, they handed us an application that does something that does not seem earth shattering [...]
A topic that seems to be getting more press these days is the debate over whether the Internet is making us dumber. There are commenter’s lining up on both sides of the issue and a recent book has stoked the fires. Nicholas Carr has written a number of opinions like [...]
I am not sure if this is happening to you, but it is to me, and evidently to many others as well. It is the dreaded incidence of having a conversation you are involved with in one group, bleeding over to a different group. Or, the situation where you are [...]
I have a dream: I want to see the state agencies employ computer programmers from our local universities in an effort to give the students some real-world experience, while also giving the state a steady pool of young and enthusiastic developers. Sounds like a win/win situation if you ask me. [...]
OK, I am only going to write about this one time, and then I am going to let it go. I start every presentation I give on social technologies with the same slide, and each time I review it, the audience nods their heads as if to say, “now I get it…” This slide is a simple vocabulary lesson to try and bring some coherence and sense to the jumble of terms people are now using in the social space. It seems that each new day brings some new variation on an activity with the word social pasted in front of it.
As you might have noticed, I took the month of June, and part of July off from writing this blog. The only excuse I really have is that I had three books that were all do to the publishers during this time. For the most part, they are done, and [...]
For some reason I have had these visions popping into my head of the things in life that technology has pretty much erased from the face of the Earth. If you are under 25 years old, this post may not mean much to you. For the rest of us, this [...]