Well, FOSE got off to a bang with a keynote speech by Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired. Chris is famous for the idea of the Long Tail, and has a written a book on the same topic. No surprise, but he was strongly in favor of government embracing social media, cloud computing and all the r...

A few posts drew my attention this weekend. first there was Chris Anderson talking about the economics of giving it away. It seems to me that Chris is changing his tone of voice in FREE. Whereas he often has focused on the zero cost distribution of FREE, he now talks about the revenue side of things...

Bloggare brukar ofta klaga på traditionella media för att de är dåliga på källkontroll. Det finns en självgodhet inom bloggeratin som menar att dom är lite bättre, lite ärligare. Transparent brukar vara ordet som används. Man är transparent med sitt källmaterial och visar varifrån man ...

When covering an extraordinary gifted person or a brilliant invention, we often include a video presentation from an influential annual conference that attracts great minds who have “ideas worth spreading”. For many, the; TED (Technology Entertainment Design) Conference, is the highlight...

Who needs fancy Chief Innovation Officers (or their imaginary sons)? Wired's Clive Thompson just might've come up with the solution to all of the big media companies' problems. As Mr. McGuire counseled young Benjamin Bradock in The Graduate, we have just one word— are you listening —for the Trib...

It’s been a big year for tech policy books. Several important titles were released in 2008 that offer interesting perspectives about the future of the Internet and the impact digital technologies are having on our lives, culture, and economy. Back in September, I compared some of the most popu...

There’s been a lot of chat recently about whether blogging is dead, sparked by this article in Wired by Paul Boutin. It’s easy to scoff at the article, and the idea that blogging is dead is obviously nonsense. But I doubt the claim would have got so much attention if there wasn’t a...

There's no time like a recession to reassert the conventional economic wisdom that making money is harder than those guys on cable pretend. Viral marketing was huge in the mid-90's before the dotcom bubble burst and everyone realized that eyeballs didn't necessarily translate into dollars. It was on...

There's no time like a recession to reassert the conventional economic wisdom that making money is harder than those guys on cable pretend. Viral marketing was huge in the mid-90's before the dotcom bubble burst and everyone realized that eyeballs didn't necessarily translate into dollars. It was on...

A bunch of webby stories caught my eye this morning, in no particular order by rhymes nor reasons: * World’s oldest blogger signs off singing aged 108 - “An Australian woman renowned as the world’s oldest blogger has died at the age of 108, with her last posting talking about her a...