What is the difference between knowledge and information? Ten or twenty years ago the questions that most of us, who wanted to publish a poem or a quick prose on the Web, weren’t so obvious. Today more and more people are asking these questions that once remained within the serious academic sphere: What is the Continue Reading
14AprWhat can modern businesses learn from the Web?
Gary Hamel, celebrated management thinker and author and co-founder of the Management, make the case for reinventing management for the 21st century. In this fast-paced, idea-packed, 15-minute video essay, Hamel paints a vivid picture of what it means to build organizations that are fundamentally fit for the future—resilient, inventive, inspiring and accountable. “Modern” management is Continue Reading
26MarWhittaker: Why I left Google
Social isn’t a product. Social is people and the people are on Facebook. Officially, Google declared that “sharing is broken on the web” and nothing but the full force of our collective minds around Google+ could fix it. You have to admire a company willing to sacrifice sacred cows and rally its talent behind a threat Continue Reading
17FebHow Democracy Works Now
We’re gonna create a whole new America. “[Immigration reform] has nothing to do with race, with country of origin, with ethnicity. Nothing. It is an American issue. It’s citizenship that is under attack.” “If what he means by that (is) we represent a threat to the culture of this country, then he is right because we’re Continue Reading
13FebIf you want to change the world, you’ve got to tell stories
Photograph by Will Okun Journalism can make us care — or it can numb us to human suffering. China is a major fixation in my imagination, but this fascination doesn’t help much. I keep stacking away essentials to to-read shelves. China Wakes is an excellent exception. It just happens to be a terrific book by Continue Reading
01FebCinema, citizenship and the promise of the Internet
Piracy is typically portrayed as the vice of only those who wish to steal media for the sake of self-indulgent entertainment. But ‘file sharing’ is also, for some, the only means of gaining access to educational material or information censored by oppressive governments, let alone revolutionary inspiration — openDemocracy.net “Here is just one example of the Continue Reading
11JanThe Capra Hyperbole : One Man, One Film
Meet John Doe is nothing short of a triumph of Riskin the individual over Capra the institution. Also published on mFC on Jan 6, 2012 The last day of December demands introspection, and I sense a now all-too-familiar pressure to choose the right words for this end note. The year on the calendar upsets my plans. Continue Reading
14NovThe brands that survive will be the brands that make life better
How to make a brand stand out from the crowd? Make people’s lives—and the world—better and more meaningful. Co.Exist editor, Morgan Clendaniel, writes that companies that aren’t making a difference—to the world and to consumers—aren’t going to be around much longer. Instead of just making your product incrementally better than the competitor, you need to Continue Reading
04AugSocial advertising — is it worth your advertising money?
The truth about social advertising & how to get more for your spending It pains me to see how a great idea is being crushed under the weight of unsympathetic brand managers. It is sad when you’ve to cook up feel-good stories when the original idea—if executed right— could produce real, outstanding results. Key to Social Continue Reading