When I heard about the Cluetrain Plus 10 project, I knew I needed to participate. The project celebrates the Cluetrain Manifesto and its decade of influence. I like manifestos. I really like predictive ones that turn out to be mostly right. So, to celebrate, I am blogging on thesis 13:
What’s happening to markets is also [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about access to information and the creation of knowledge. My thinking focuses on this:
The point of creating new knowledge is to help us understand our world better.
Lots of types of knowledge can be created.
Knowledge can be documented in many forms: articles, blog posts, videos, etc.
Knowledge can be created by [...]
It’s no secret that I love reading ebooks on my phone, and that I am facinated with the Google Books Project. I am fascinated with both these concepts because I believe they could truly be game-changing for libraries and for the general information environment.
So the past few months have been pretty amazing. (I realize that [...]
I love the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Their most recent study is on the future of the internet (pdf). It’s awesome. Among the more interesting points (to me):
In 2020 the mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most of the world & voice recognition and touch user-interfaces will [...]
I love to read. I always have. I imagine I always will. When I was a child, there were summers that I read a book a day. When I graduated from college and got my first job (but was still somewhat directionless) I was reading a book a week.
Then came grad school, writing, and becoming [...]
