October 2010
0 posts
“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
September 2010
2 posts
“Chance favors the connected mind”
– Steve Johnson http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from.html
July 2010
2 posts
“Best way to build trust: Say what you do and do what you say”
Hint to newspaper and magazine business - Moving...
In a commodity market, you can only be as good as your dumbest competitor.
- Peter Drucker
Let me start off by saying I’m a news junkie and I really appreciate what journalism brings to the world. I firmly believe storytelling is part of our makeup as human beings, and that our appetite for stories both fiction and non fiction is going to continue to increase. Having said that, its...
June 2010
5 posts
Google won't kill Facebook - Distributed P2P...
The Day the Napster Died
Brad King 05.15.02 Napster, the software application that ignited the music file-trading frenzy, came to an apparent end on Tuesday after its board of directors nixed a sale that would have kept the company afloat.
When founder Shawn Fanning and CEO Konrad Hilbers abruptly resigned on Tuesday, the company that launched the most innovative Internet program was gone,...
Facebook won't kill Google - Semantic web enabled...
I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The ‘intelligent...
“There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, more...”
– Niccolo Machiavelli
“The best strategy is the one you can execute.”
– Ralph Rivera
Crawl, Walk, Run
I recently got my 2 yr old daughter a scooter. As I was putting on her helmet, it struck me how quickly she has progressed from crawling to walking, and from walking to running. Now she is looking to go faster via the scooter, which will eventually become a bicycle and then a car and then who knows what – maybe personal jetpack. The progression she is experiencing parallels the progression all...
February 2010
1 post
Leaving the little red school house behind
Over the past month, much has been made of the potential impact of the kindle and ipad on education. Good summary of the excitement found here -http://blog.xplana.com/2010/01/the-kindle-the-ipad-and-higher-education/ While i agree that carrying a kindle is better than lugging around a half dozen text books, I believe that merely digitizing textbook content is a misguided and short sighted use...
January 2010
3 posts
Internet Medium: Interactive, Social, Nonlinear
As we enter the second decade of the millenium I hope that we start to go beyond Internet as platform or channel and strive for Internet as medium. Most media companies still treat the Internet as a distribution channel for digital versions of the content they already produce for print or tv – their holy grail is being multiplatform. Whether it be Hulu, iTunes or Kindle or supposedly next...
Decade’s Top 10 Gadgets
Every blog I see is posting their top 10 tech list so here is mine.
Titanium Powerbook – as a former IBMer and lifelong PC user, switching to Apple was a big deal. It took the Titanium Powerbook to make it happen. It went beyond function and performance with a beautiful design which sparked lust at first sight.
Canon Elph Camera – My first digital camera. Once you go digital you don’t go...
Being Glomoloso - gotta start somewhere
I can trace my Internet roots back to 1995 when I joined Simon & Schuster as the head of architecture and advanced technology. Amongst other things like SAP and Y2K, this included laying the foundation for our Internet activities. Being at an old school media company meant we had to evangelize the new media message. Not an easy task – aside from cave walls and papyrus you don’t get much...
