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  • The book that changed my (work) life

    I read the cluetrain manifesto 10 years ago (when it first came out) as I was just starting my career as a professional marketer. This was after being trained and degreed in engineering and working as a demo jock and implementation engineer for enterprise IT software. It was quite a shock moving from the numbers…

  • Cincinnati in the news

    The question is why is it always bad? In my lifetime I can remember a few times when Cincinnati made the top of the national nightly news: Larry Flynt…enough said (just do search – CAUTION: NSFW) The Mapplethorpe photo exhibit…well, enough said again (same thing as the note above) When we won the 1990 World…

  • Everyone don your kimono

    ‘Cause it’s time to open up!  The media channels, tradition and non alike, have been flooded in the past week with major IT ecosystem leaders falling all over themselves to be open. First came Microsoft’s announcement free open season movie download must love dogs dvdrip that they were publishing 30,000 pages of documentation on their…

  • Why ebay feedback change is not the end of social production

    .!. A very deep and involving post from Kevin Kelly (no relation ;-)): Kevin Kelly — The Technium that is a much deeper explanation of why the change in the ebay feedback scoring engine is not the end of the social production world as the FT posited and Nick Carr supported. Adult supervision doesn’t mean…

  • Inisights in to leading 170,000 people

    Last night I attended the top+ awards banquet for Siemens in the U.S.  I had the very fortunate chance to sit down with CEO of Siemens AG, Peter Loescher (we have lot’s of CEO’s, but he is the top of them all) after dinner with about 8 other people.  I can’t imagine what it must…

  • SL creator sees future for “distributed design”

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  • Social production take a step forward next week at TED

    TED is a great conference for new and emerging technologies, so this week and next are sure to be full of interesting announcements.  A pre-announcement that caught my eye today got a nice write-up on TechCrunh: First Look: Kluster’s Market Approach to Crowdsourcing. At first glance (would love to get an invite to the beta,…

  • Paul Buchheit on why great teams with great products can sometime fail

    (Sorry if this is a duplicate post…was sure I wrote something on this and hit publish, but can’t find it anywhere in my DB..weird). So, just as a simple proof that there is business value in me following my twitter stream throughout the work day (not that anyone has asked…yet), I bring you this tweet…

  • The new sign is up

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