COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY

It’s official.  Only 8% of US households watch TV by tuning into free over-the-air broadcasts.   The vast majority of American homes get their TV signal via cable, satellite or telco fibre.  Gary Shapiro, the President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, says “It’s time we accept this shift away from over-the-air TV as [...]

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Yesterday, Jason McCabe Calacanis invited me to respond to his post “Has Google Been Naughty?  Yes.  Should the Government Get Involved?  No”.   You can read responses from Vivek Wadhwa and  Robert Scoble along with mine in a handy digest on the Launch blog.   The following post is the full text of my response [...]

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Bitcoin is a controversial project to establish a new kind of anonymous digital cash that exists beyond the control of any central bank.   It’s an unambiguous challenge to centralized control of the financial system, and it’s probably illegal (or soon to be).  But the principles behind Bitcoin are consistent with the broader Internet trend [...]

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Off with their heads.   Now is the season of investor discontent.   Dissent is brewing among angry shareholders, disappointed with lackluster performance at tech giants Microsoft, Cisco, Nokia and RIM. MICROLIMP Steve Ballmer’s days at the helm of Microsoft are clearly numbered.  His desperate bid to make the company relevant by buying Skype for a [...]

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A narrow road has been carved out of the cliff high above the green river. It’s a hair-raising drive: a sheer vertical drop of more than 2300 feet, in many places too narrow for two-way traffic, with craggy rock overhangs, blind curves and hairpin turns, and thrillingly, no guardrail (!!) The road begins in the [...]

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In November 2010, I was invited to participate as a speaker and moderator at the Creativity World Forum in Oklahoma City.   More than 2500 attendees, including hundreds of international delegates, attended the event.   We participated in workshops, discussions, exhibitions, demonstrations. I was the moderator of a discussion on the topic of Technology Aiding [...]

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This week I was a guest on “This Week In Careers.”   Host Lisa Mandell interviewed me about career opportunities of the future.  I spoke about several industries that will grow this decade and the steps to take now to prepare for the jobs of the future. In a wide-ranging interview, we covered several topics, [...]

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Merchant Joe Wanamaker’s famously groused  ”I know that half my advertising dollars are wasted but I just don’t know which half!” The age-old promise of the web is to eliminate inefficiency in ad spending by targeting users with precision, but for much of the commercial web’s 15-year existence, that hasn’t been easy.   Most display [...]

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I would welcome advice from you, dear reader, about how best to record a presentation and put it on my blog. During the past six months, I have given a series of speeches that track the way that modern society was shaped by technology.   These talks were pretty ambitious:   my recent talk at Merging+Media [...]

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