Thursday, March 20th, 2008
I've written quite a bit about Twitter in the newsroom today. It's an obvious addition that should appear near immediately -- and by that, I mean sometime in the last 15 months since it's been released.
The instant, mobile, social networking software is absolutely the best way to get live, up-to-the-second ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
One of the topics we cover in my classes is game theory, particularly the Prisoner's Dilemma. If you don't want to click on the link, here is a basic overview:
Two people are separated and questioned, but offered the same deal. If you turn on the other person - you go ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
This panel will look at the closing gap between gossip and news as inspired by the social media, where information shoots around the Internet at the speed of Twitter. This should be interesting, as I have one friend on the panel (Heather Gold), Twitter founder Evan Williams and Valleywag managing ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
After the disaster that was the Zuckerberg keynote (note to journalists: do not come unprepared, do not flirt shamelessly with the subject, do not try to help them answer questions and do not open yell at the audience that you job is hard), we've moved on to interactions in the ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Every time I teach a class that has anything to do with technology, I begin by making my kids read "Man-Computer Symbiosis" by J.C.R. Licklider.
He's not known for building anything. He didn't create computers, software or networks. He didn't make the new, new thing. All he did was conceptualize how ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
A friend of mine posted a blog about Social Media Marketing, a term I'm starting to hear more and more.
It's concerning for me, not because I don't like marketing or selling things. I like money. Money is good. It helps me eat and have clothes.
Social media, though, goes far beyond ...
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