I was very fortunate to be hanging out in the lobby of The Palace Hotel checking in with a few friends from Web 2.0 Summit on Friday Afternoon - check out our chat with Joseph Smarr, Salim Ismail, Richard MacManus and Jason Hoffman - very insightful stuff… The victory of open source platforms, the open […]

Great video from Lee and Sachi LeFever working to craft a better explanation of RSS for everyday folks. Good idea, and something we want to see more people trying to do - coming up with their own stories explaining the real value they get from their tools and how they use them. It […]

Jeremiah Owyang is one of the brightest and most influential commentators on Social Media and Web 2.0 today (I know because I track these things with BuzzLogic, a company I advise), but he writes in a post this morning that he hates [has been challenged on the use of] the term social media, and asks […]

I do get a kick out of the entire dustup over the social media release - very happy to hear people talking about it really, even if some don’t fully understand the deeper purpose and the broader implications. Those progressive, anti-establishment folks screaming that our efforts are co-opting social media are doing the exact […]

Our good friend Greg(arious) Narain has written a great little piece on the idea of “Continuous Partial Postponement” that he gleaned from a book he is reading called Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel Pinchbeck. He relates it to being the pessimistic view of looking at […]

There seems to be quite a bit going on right now (ok, always) around the world of Social Media. I have come to realize that even though I depend on Upcoming as my main event notification system, Upcoming is not the source of choice for many folks. Until I can resolve this electronically […]