| Instead of entrepreneurs
saying "I'm going to start this new little web service,
and I'm going to go raise $5 million in venture capital, and
I'm going to have this big business plan," people had to
to ask themselves, "What's a cheap way to do this? What's
a cheap way to accomplish my goal?" And, very often, the
cheap way was to get the users involved. And once we started
down that path, the possibilities just opened up.
Clay Shirky, Worldchanging
Interview
In a high technology age, you actually want easy entertainment.
- Roger Beaumont, jumpin
If it fits, embrace social networks. Let a thousand flowers
bloom.
- Steve Bridger, Thinking
about social networks
If you use email, you have a spam filter. You block out the
sales pitches, fake information, and random noise that constantly
flow toward your inbox. In the coming week, I urge you to expand
your concept of what constitutes spam by shielding yourself
against all the other junk food for thought that besieges you.
Be ruthlessly discerning about the toxins that spew from the
radio, TV, Web, newspapers, and magazines. Minimize your contact
with narcissists who think 'conversation' consists of you soaking
up their compulsive self-revelations.
- Rob Brezsny, Free
Will Astrology
Skype me.
- Conversation
What's a blog?
- Conversation
We're ahead of the curve. Soon postmodern complexity will be
the norm.
- Conversation
I'm not a joiner.
- Conversation with a new Flickr member on joining her first
group.
Travelers go to developing nations 'armed' with phones.
- Gilad, Indigi-Net:
travel globally, act locally
She does not know how to work in real time.
- Conversation
Businesses are now discovering that their marketing and public
relations purposes may now be better served by slick World Wide
Web pages on the Internet and Superbowl advertising spots than
by investing in monumental architecture on expensive urban sites.
- William J. Mitchell, Placing
Words
Newspaper critics are being bypassed by web sites where people
are allowed to become critics themselves. And nearly all these
sites are a two-way conversation. Especially in areas like Travel,
the younger generation wants to read information by people like
themselves. So a newspaper has a choice. They can say we are
the experts, or they can say 'this is interesting' ask their
readers to comment.
- Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, quoted in Mike
Butcher's A
pincer movement on the papers
Web users don't behave.
- Jeanne
L. Allert, Internet consultant
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