Time for another podcast pointer – ain’t it so? What Is Wikinomics? This week, IdeaCast producer Steve Singer talks with Don Tapscott, co-author, with Anthony D. Williams, of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. In its latest incarnation, Tapscott says, the World Wide Web has become a communal experience–collaborators from anywhere and any walk of [...]
As Google has now officially launched a collection of Web-based products that compete, more or less directly, with Microsoft Office, everybody has his say. I won’t add another voice but will point to an article in the NYT, that’s a good summary for now … The search engine giant adopts a subscription model with its [...]
“Storytelling is energising for companies. It gives employees a chance to feel something about their brand and shows them how they can contribute to the story, which has to be good.” Nothing new, but interesting to see that the Financial Times gets on the storytelling bandwagon, i.e. the use of stories for fostering innovation and [...]
Michael Geist takes position (here at the BBC) in regard of the digital copyright policy, international treaties and lobbying powers … Internet law professor Michael Geist takes a look at intellectual property protection in the US and finds it somewhat out of step with the rest of the world. und Countries singled out for criticism [...]
An article in the Telegraph, reporting from an encounter and interview with Russell Ackoff, grand-father of systems thinking. Some gems include: The idea that you can improve a business by focusing on just part of it is plain wrong, Ackoff says. In fact, it’s more serious than that: attempted “improvements” can actually make everything else [...]
Via Jim McGee I found this interview with Michael Wesch (yes, that video) at John Battelle’s Searchblog. This is good stuff and food for thought that touches many aspects of digital life, e.g. how connectivity is changing the dynamic of human contact and interaction (and this goes for organizations as well …)
Via Rich Hoeg c/o eContent, comes news of a (free, downloadable) report and analysis of the digital world, the Digital Economy Fact Book ,Eighth Edition, 2006 by the Progress & Freedom Foundation (about the PFF in their own words). Looks interesting, from the announcement: The digital revolution has changed the way we make goods and [...]
