In the age of Wikinomics, one of the things that frustrates me most about being an avid sports fan is that it is still very difficult for fans to have any direct say in what their favourite players and teams do on, and off, the playing surface (i.e. who plays? who stays? who goes?) As I watched t...

Edge.org recently posted a collection of 151 thoughts from leading thinkers on the “game-changing scientific ideas or developments� they think will “change everything� within their lifetimes. Having co-authored a book about how mass collaboration will change everything I was particularly int...

Reading the business news lately is pretty depressing, as article after article goes into detail on which big business (the banks, the car companies, etc.) is in most urgent need of a bailout. I’m personally on the skeptical side about whether any of these will help much, and more importantly ...

A little while ago I wrote a two-part series called “Looking into the blogosphere through a sporting lens” (part 2 is here). The purpose of the series was to look at some questions underlying a Costas Now program, which itself was supposed to be an insightful look at the role of the blog...

There's a recently released book called, Here Comes Everybody (The Penguin Press), by Clay Shirkey that I am loving. In fact, I am having a hard time remembering the last time I took this long to read a book. I am enjoying it so much, that I simply don't want it to end. I'm savouring it like a fine ...

The struggles to Search Engine Optimize a website continues. As Universal Search (aka blended search) continues to proliferate the organic search results, and as Google dances and futzes with algorithms and other neat stuff that freaks out anybody and everybody who builds a website, Jimmy Wales (the...

You’ll have to have done your background reading to understand this one - Charles Mackay is the author of “ Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds “, while James Surowiecki is the author of “ The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the few…...

I’m doing a workshop intro to social media for a client at the end of the month and they just sent me through a draft agenda - mine is just one in a series that they’re doing at a two-day staff event. On the agenda mine is entitled “Libraries gave us power” I had no idea what...