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...

For most of the last year there’s been one major point in relation to wikinomics that I’ve been trying to make more than any other - that while it’s often seen as synonymous with the “wisdom of crowds“, more often than not wikinomics-enabled strategies focus on finding ...

About a week and a half ago, the Republican party held their Tech Summit 2009 (the first ever), aiming to create a real 2.0 strategy to help the party reach out to voters. “When we get to 2010, I want my campaigns here,” Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said as he h...

Some time ago, I reported that Novartis had adopted a wikinomics approach to its diabetes research. After investing millions of dollars trying to unlock the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes, the company released all of its raw data on the Internet, for free. Hardly typical behavior for a pharmaceuti...

Here’s a question I’ve been curious about lately, in light of my researching and writing of a report into the business use of Social Media for the Ark Group: should businesses add blogging to their arsenal of marketing tactics? Will blogging help sell more products and services? Or is it – as ...

It’s not hard to find critics of online health info. There seems to be a belief that the Internet has turned us into cyberchondriacs, obsessively Googling “sore knee” or “headache in morning” to figure out which life-alterning ailment we have just developed. But is c...

If there was any doubt before, yesterday’s plane crash in the Hudson river provided ample proof of how useful Twitter can be for emerging news. Here’s a truly amazing photo that @jkrums snapped and linked to via twitter while his ferry was en route to help: Three minutes earlier than tha...

Click on the YouTube video above to hear President-elect Barack Obama invite the nation to participate in the Inauguration festivities surrounding his swearing-in as President on January 20. True to form, Obama’s opening words include “But this inauguration is not about me. It’s ab...

In a country where many forms of communication and media are restricted by government, Iran has one of the most vibrant blogging communities in the world; hosting around 65,000 bloggers and 22 million internet users. To suitably illustrate the popularity of blogging in Iran, according to Alexa.com, ...

Last year I was blessed with the birth of my daughter (now 9 months old), and I wanted to come up with a special gift that both she, and her immediate family could enjoy for years. Given that I was working on some wikinomics-related research, I sat down to think about how I could put some of the pri...