Category Archives: Thoughts

Our jewel code: my %blogosphere = &assessment; if($blogosphere {‘opportunity’} eq ‘fame’) { # do nothing } else {print “equality & fairnessn”; } “If opportunity means something like fame (or google-juice) in the blogosphere, then Dave and I would pick equality and fairness as our ‘two’.” That bit of perl code is a geeky way ofContinueContinue reading “Pick a card, any two!”

As to this, quoted from a post of Kent’s : “As an aside, are there any bad blogs in Australia?” Define ‘Bad’… or ‘Good’ for that matter. This is what’s great about the blogosphere – you just ‘voice’ what you want and leave the ‘listeners’ to decide what’s good and bad FOR THEM – inContinueContinue reading “What’s Good? – want a second opinion?”

Another rant between Mike and I, this time around the whole ‘inequality kerfuffle’, as Hugh termed it. It touches on the issues behind the [tag]gatekeepers[/tag] debate. Empowerment, inclusion, isolation, barriers – all these things which over 20 years in a wheelchair has given me good opportunity to be aquainted with. Great to see people likeContinueContinue reading “Horizontal HQ Sessions #2”

Following up on a conversation with [tag]Hugh Macleod[/tag] over on gapingvoid. To me, equality in the blogosphere is not about every blogger being the same in quantity or measure of what they write. And it is not about status, whether measured by outcome, traffic, readership, quality or even those (I think fictitious) “attractive, sexually willingContinueContinue reading “Equality on the blogosphere – no gaping voids.”

Continuous partial attention is a post-multitasking adaptive behaviour. This is a quote from Linda Stone’s address at the Supernova Conference earlier this year. YOU MUST read the whole article here. This is NOT an option. As you’d hear on a Dave Slusher EGC podcast intro. – “You should listen to this because this concerns you”.ContinueContinue reading “post-multitasking adaptive behaviour”

Over on bokardo blog, Joshua Porter quotes Doc Searls about the disruptive nature of blogs: One of the main points we made in The Cluetrain Manifesto, way back in 1999, was that the real revolution with the Net was not an increase in the power of supply, but an increase in the power of demand.ContinueContinue reading “Redistribution of power”

Doc Searles writes on Friday, December 9, 2005 …… There’s an ‘icky’ in ‘sticky’. Just a thought. …… He doesn’t eloborate on icky comment. But I sense a derogatory meaning. Perhaps he’s referring to ‘sticky’ having the connotation of being stuck, therefore not moving or ‘distributed’. Who knows. I wish he’d elaborate.

I love this idea. I’d love to have a creative idea like this. This guy ran a project that asked for people to submit a postcard with a secret on it. The result was overwhelming and brilliant and resulted in the publication of a book called PostSecret : Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary LivesYou are invitedContinueContinue reading “Secret Postcards”