It’s noisy out there for sure. People broadcasting their morning coffee, news from every corner of the world, companies desperately trying to get our attention and cat videos. Turns out that once we democratized the ability to broadcast, our ability to create content (noise) became unlimited. And know that there are many people out there [...]

“Semantic, shemantics” says Alan Wilensky in reaction to today’s ReadWriteweb post: Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008.  I have to agree with him that these apps just all seem to process existing data in different ways to create a new node in the network rather than to deliver content that is relevant to me [...]

In my last post “Life | Work: understanding service ecology”, I left you hanging in an attempt to break up my thinking in digestible chunks. To recap: Though it may seem unrelated, my readings on design thinking have helped me shape this idea of an ecological approach to digital communication, especially when I came across [...]

Visualizing the Internet ecosystem developed by Shai Carmi, Shlomo Havlin, Scott Kirkpatrick, Yuval Shavitt and Eran Shir and 5,000 volunteer as part of a research project at Lanet-vi program of I. Alvarez-Hamelin et al*

You know when you find material that finally helps you validate/articulate a thought that you have been chewing on for a long [...]

For a market leader like Microsoft, it has to be brutal to be the second — a far second — in the market portable of music devices. According to NPB study quoted on The Seattle PI, the Zune has 8-10% of the market vs. iPods’ 80%. Does this mean Microsoft should give up on?
I don’t [...]