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December 5, 2007
According to a post by Wendy Davis at Just an Online Minute (citing the WSJ), the Nielsen company (not Jakob) is going to start fingerprinting content and reporting violators. Oh, yay. Yet another soulless company that prefers cash to freedom and control to art is going to protect us.
December 4, 2007
Mark Pilgrim does some mighty provocative juxtapositioning of then and now quotes about books and reading.
The juxtapositions certainly make the case that things are different. They certainly point to things we’re all be sorry to give up, like being able to lend a friend a book. But, of course, they don’t tell the whole story, because the whole story is not only complex, and it’s not only unwritten, but it’s the story of the coming change in norms. And a change in norms rewrites all the stories leading up to it.
Anyway, it’s a terrific piece. Totally worth getting riled up about. [Tags: ebooks amazon kindle drm copyright copyleft everything_is_miscellaneous]
December 3, 2007
On Wednesday at 6:30pm, I’m leading a discussion of whether leadership on the Web is different from leadership off the Web, especially business leadership. In fact, I’m gong to run through my 20 minute presentation for Le Web 3 on this topic. I’ve gotten pretty interested in the nature of the leadership of big collaborative projects, and I’m looking forward to a chance to have my inklings bashed around.
Plus, we serve pizza.
The session is open to all. It’s at the Berkman Center [map]. [Tags: berkman leadership]
December 2, 2007
Marco Montemagno is a blog hoster and host of a show on Sky about technology. He was the opening speaker at the IAB marketing conference in Milan a few weeks ago and gave a funny, effective talk countering popular Italian misconceptions about the Internet — that it’s all about porn, that it’s dangerous, etc…pretty much the same as in the US. Marco is a heck of a presenter and was extremely well received. It’s now available at Blip.tv. (I had the misfortune of following him. OTOH, I had the good fortune to get to spend some time with him before and after the presentation.)
December 1, 2007
I’ve posted the video of my talk at Defrag about the value of the implicit. It’s about four or five links down on this page. The original is here.
The talk is 30 minutes long and mainly incoherent.
And while I’m being self-centered, HearsayCulture just posted a podcast interview with me.
November 30, 2007
I’m glad Facebook decided to reverse its most egregious defaults so that not clicking “yes” will now mean “no.” Good.
But in this matter Facebok overall is showing itself not to be on its users side. There is no reason not to give users a big red opt out button — making the whole thing opt in would be even better — except that FB knows we would use it. FB is choosing its own interests over its users’.
And, no, not every company does that. Sure, there’s self-interest in all that we do and all that our organizations do. But companies choose sides. Almost all companies use their customers. A few are truly on their customers’ side. Now we know where FB stands.
November 27, 2007
Harvard Business Review online is running a brief post of mine on why Kindle may end up as an open device, and, more generally, why there’s often competitive pressure for openness.
November 22, 2007
Just a reminder: Saddam Hussein was not behind 9/11 and the theft of 25 million personal records in Britain does not bolster the case that the Internet is rife with identity theft. The data were on two computer disks that were stolen.
November 21, 2007
Jessamyn West, who has been putting the rarin back in Librarian since 1999, posts about the fact that someone she respects has started doing pay-per-post postings. And then she goes all meta on the topic. Quite amusing. As she concludes: “Ten dollars well spent, I think. Don’t you?” [Tags: jessamyn_west, mat_honan pay_per_post, blogging, blogosphere libraries -berkman]
November 19, 2007
Amazon’s ebook, Kindle, looks great. But as far as I can tell, it doesn’t browse. You can only receive the materials Amazon chooses to provide.
Too bad. I was about to buy one.
If I’m wrong, please let me know…
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