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Christmas Comes Early for WordPress

By on December 11, 2008 in Business & Marketing, Next Tech, Social Media

While waiting for the coffee to brew this morning I glanced at Twitter and the first post on my screen read “WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” released…” (props to ijafri for being first on my radar with the news). As the song playing in an endless loop in nearly every store in New York says, “It’s starting [...]

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Wordcamp NY 2008

By on October 13, 2008 in Next Tech, Social Media

The inspiration for my post Burning Down the TV came from Jen Simmons presentation at Wordcamp New York last Sunday. The other speakers that day included Matt Mullenweg, co-developer of WordPress and a partner in Automatic, bloggers Aaron Brazell and Shay David, Jeremy Clarke on running a blog network, and Jen on WordPress and video. [...]

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私は日本人になっている

By on October 8, 2008 in Social Media, The Biosphere

I’m not really turning Japanese as this post’s title* suggests, but as a blogger and a Blogfather I was fascinated to learn that according to reports last year in Technorati and The Washington Post, Japanese has become the dominant language of the blogosphere. Why Japanese? With a vast middle-class nearly everyone can afford an internet [...]

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Hack the Debate

By on September 28, 2008 in Next Tech, Social Media, The Biosphere

I trust you all tuned in last Friday night to see if McCain was going to show up? After such a tough week for the old maverick — suspending his campaign, parachuting into Washington, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative,  and keeping everyone guessing if we’d be watching Barack debate himself — it made for [...]

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Who Sees WoW Better?

Who Sees WoW Better?

By on September 16, 2008 in Business & Marketing, Games & Simulations, Social Media, The Biosphere

I began playing World of Warcraft when I was a suit for Pearson. Though I worked my way up to a L20-something Paladin, the daily 4 hours as a commuter and on the phone, and 10 hours at the computer and on the phone killed my interest in grinding higher. Still, WoW was compelling and [...]

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The Global Market

By on September 11, 2008 in Next Tech, Social Media, The Biosphere

Click image to stop on one picture, mouse up or down to pan, click again to continue. Here’s a whole new take on the global market and media mashups. This kaleidoscopic stream displays 35 images I shot at public markets in London, Seattle, New York City, in Ariquipa and Urubamba, Peru, and in Seine Bight, [...]

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Twitter + Thriller = Twiller

By on September 3, 2008 in Social Media, The Biosphere

Several weeks ago in Hooked on Twitter I pondered whether microblogging had spawned a new literary form. Evidently it has, as Matt Richtel writes in the New York Times last weekend: You might remember the novel in its earlier form; it had a cover, and many pages, forethought of plot, editors and agents weighing in, [...]

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Who’s in Your Social Network?

By on September 2, 2008 in Social Media, The Biosphere

Though summer reading does not summer blogging make, now Labor Day has past it’s time to catch up. One of the more intriguing ideas to hit my radar in August is Scott Traylor’s post on the size of online social networks: How is it that some members of online social networks have so many connections? [...]

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Microblogging Goes Opensource

By on July 18, 2008 in Next Tech, Social Media

If you’ve noticed the right hand column of my site recently you know that sometime around the 4th of July I began tweeting on Twitter. Though I long eschewed it and still find it can be a time-sink, I’m beginning to see a place for microblogging: keeping up with friends; asking questions-to-the-universe that (sometimes) beget [...]

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Google Lively Goes Live

Google Lively Goes Live

By on July 9, 2008 in Next Tech, Social Media

I’m getting my first look at Google Lively tonight, the 3D virtual world/avatar chat environment they began anonymously testing on incoming students at Arizona State University last summer. My first impression: Second Life doesn’t have anything to worry about — yet — but I wouldn’t want to be on the other side of the field [...]

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Report from the Metaverse

Report from the Metaverse

By on July 3, 2008 in Games & Simulations, Next Tech, Social Media

Last winter Stanford University hosted the Metaverse U Conference to “bring together industry leaders, artists, and academics to discuss a range of topics surrounding virtual worlds.” For some reason that seemed important at the time I couldn’t attend, but as the July 4th holiday nears I’ve taken time away from a social media-cum-virtual world-cum MMOG [...]

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Social Networking Etiquette

By on June 16, 2008 in Social Media, The Biosphere

Social networking used to be so simple, a forum to say or discuss what’s on your mind and meet others who are on the same page. However as more people get on the bandwagon — students, moms, bosses, clients, recruiters, HR departments — the rules are changing and like most rules you ignore them at [...]

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