Apple
|
|
|
239
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Consumer Behavior
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Shared to Solo
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7
|
|
Local to Granfalloon
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19
|
|
Solo to Swarm
|
19
|
|
Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies
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13
|
|
Privacy is a feeling
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18
|
Information Pedigree
|
|
Known Source to Crowdsource
|
36
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|
Audience to Participants
|
41
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|
Information overload vs ability to comprehend
|
15
|
|
Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion
|
29
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|
Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public)
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29
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|
Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth
|
21
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|
Detecting Pedigree Remotely
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18
|
Media Biz Models
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|
Citizens seek broadband
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0
|
|
Consumption to Creation
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1
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|
Creation to Aggregation
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35
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|
Location becomes Central
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4
|
|
New Value Moment
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14
|
News Worth
|
|
Nameplate to Disembodied
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24
|
|
The Renaissance of Copyright
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27
|
Slope
|
|
Desktop to Mobile
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12
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|
Centralized to Distributed
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32
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|
Mass Media to Atomized
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36
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|
Geography to Topic
|
10
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Theory
|
|
Research
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24
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|
Government-centric vs. Culturally deterministic
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7
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|
Class Warfare
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10
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|
Property Rights vs. Human Rights
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14
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|
Technological Determinism
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5
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Behavior Creates Structure
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11
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Value Moment
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Synergy at Vortex Points
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5
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|
Services become Games
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19
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How 'spontaneous' social norms emerge
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Science Daily/UPenn...
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02/03/15 
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A scientific explanation has been provided by researchers for how social conventions -- everything from acceptable baby names to standards of professional conduct -- can emerge suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, with no external forces driving their creation.
((Hmmmmm.))
To understand how social norms arise, Damon Centola and Andrea Baronchelli invented a Web-based game, which recruited participants from around ...
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Credit: University of Pennsylvania
[Click to enlarge image]
Fifteen years ago, the name "Aide... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Known Source to Crowdsource,Audience to Participants,Behavior Creates Structure)
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False facts and the conservative distortion machine: It’s much more than just Fox News
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Salon...
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08/18/14 
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It's not news that it's not news.
(It's also not news that it's not surprising. See the research abstract at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.12102/abstract)
By Paul Rosenberg, Salon
Citizens are misinformed — often badly so. It’s not just that they lack good information — which would merely make them uninformed — they have plenty of bad information that leads them to believe untrue things. Or more likel... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Data to Meta News,Solo to Swarm,Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Research,Services become Games)
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How Consumer Messaging Is Going From ‘Push’ to ‘Pull’
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streetfight...
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04/25/13 
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Logging on triggers a "search" of your profile by eager beavers
(Beavers that like to move you into the cash-register line (and chew on would).)
The biggest battle coming in the world of marketing is a 180-degree shift in the routing of commerce-related messages. Today, we call them “advertisements,” one-directional messages FROM somebody with something to sell TO somebody who may potentially be a ... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Privacy is a feeling,Audience to Participants,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),New Value Moment)
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The science of fanboyism research
|
Cyril Kowaliski ...
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03/14/13 
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I like it because I picked it because I liked it.
(by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:35 PM on July 14, 2011 on alleged study by Jack Brehm in the 1950s See PDF )
We've all encountered them. They lurk in Internet message boards, comment threads, and chatrooms. Addressing anyone and everyone, they type up lengthy tirades with Cheeto-stained fingers, extolling the virtues of their product or brand of choice. They angr... (Trends: Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion)
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Facebook users unwittingly revealing intimate secrets
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UofCambridge...
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03/13/13 
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You're a gay, overweight left-wing Republican. And you 'Like' it.
(Or so it seems.)
Research shows that intimate personal attributes can be predicted with high levels of accuracy from ‘traces’ left by seemingly innocuous digital behaviour, in this case Facebook Likes. Study raises important questions about personalised marketing and onlin... (Trends: Privacy is a feeling,Audience to Participants,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public))
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Facebook Changes Outfoxed Users' Privacy Concerns
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CarnagieMellonU...
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03/07/13 
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What consumers think about privacy and how they behave on Facebook are different things.
(Realizing this, Facebook employed game theory to get their way.)
While we've always known that Facebook has the final say in how people use its service, a new study reveals just how effectively the social network can nudge its members to behave in ways Facebook might consider most fitting.
An unprecedented study from... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Privacy is a feeling,Audience to Participants,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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Raytheon's Riot Is Attention Field Tool
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Guradian...
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02/14/13 
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Can I figure out where you go if I know everything you do?
(Duh....)
Guardian article
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by minin... (Trends: Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Privacy is a feeling,Audience to Participants,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Location becomes Central,Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It
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WIRED...
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02/03/13 
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Metaphors are as important as bones.
(I made that up.)
BY DAVID GELERNTER02.01.13
People ask what the next web will be like, but there won’t be a next web.
The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a time-based worldstream. It’s already happening, and it all began with the lifes... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,New Value Moment)
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Graph Search's Dirty Promise and the Con of the Facebook 'Like'
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SteveCheney...
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01/17/13 
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A blog post promoted as news on Business Insider
(Why would a search based on a 50% lie be useful?)
We all know that the pressure for Facebook to monetize is massive and growing. Yesterday Zuckerberg fulfilled the promise he dropped at TC Disrupt to release a product that will finally compete with Google. To put socially relevant people, places, interest... (Trends: Knowledge to Belief,Solo to Swarm,Privacy is a feeling,Known Source to Crowdsource,Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Detecting Pedigree Remotely,Centralized to Distributed)
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Avenues of News Consumption 2012
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TECHCRUNCH...
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11/06/12 
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"...with all of these new services recently launching, it seems to have been kicked into another gear, where the same kernel of information passes through what seems like an infinite maze to reach us in different forms...."
(Good exposition on the consumption of information on the modern web. )
Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been an Official Contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
If there was a time-lapse video chronicling how humans have shared and rece... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource,Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Creation to Aggregation)
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Pulling people to news websites serve two important functions:
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Knight Digital Media Center...
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08/31/12 
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On, and there's "selling that dedicated audience to advertisers."
("...increasing traffic inevitably results in a decline in the average time spent online.
The more successful a site is as measured by pageviews, the less successful it is in engaging people for longer periods of time on a site.")
Websites and Engagement
For news media organizations, the focus on Web 2.0 tools and strategies that gathered momentum in the mid-2000s has mainly been about using the Internet to distri... (Trends: Distribution Reforms Around the Net,Audience to Participants,Nameplate to Disembodied,Mass Media to Atomized,Services become Games)
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Facebook Satisfaction Tanks
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ACSI...
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07/18/12 
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The world's largest has become the world's worst.
(Unpopularity is a reflection of the power relationship. Like Comcast, Facebook behaves without regard for consumer opinion, as it has a lock on the market. User can like it, or lump. Whichever.)
(Huffington Post) According to newly released data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index, Facebook scored a lowly 61 out of 100 in customer satisfaction among active users, an 8-point drop from 2011. That's the fourth-lowest score among all 230 com... (Trends: Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Audience to Participants,New Value Moment,Property Rights vs. Human Rights)
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Friendship For Sale On Facebook
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HUFFINGTON...
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07/18/12 
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$45 to be my friend. $100 to be my friend and get custom Tweets.
(($250 for a blow job, your place or mine.))
Can you put a price on friendship? How about a Facebook friendship -- with a celebrity?
According to the open market of eBay, the correct answer--at least for a Facebook friendship with Adam Sank--is "yes," and less than $45.
An eBay user by the name... (Trends: Audience to Participants,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),New Value Moment)
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Advertisers Target Audiences With Personality Scale
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SCIENCEDAILY...
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07/16/12 
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Your behavior while on Facebook tells them all they need to know.
(Will how often your post, and how often you share determine which brand of toothpaste they try to sell you?)
Online advertising has become prevalent in the past five years, and social media sites, such as Facebook, have played a major role. Now, a study at the University of Missouri School of Journalism has developed a method that could help advertisers target on... (Trends: Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Privacy is a feeling,Audience to Participants,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),New Value Moment)
|
The New Science of the Birth and Death of Words
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WSJ...
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04/03/12 
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...words either enter the long-term lexicon or tumble off a cliff into disuse and go '23 skidoo' as children either accept or reject their parents' coinages...
(Wow. Heavy. Far-out. Psychedelic. Groovy. Fab. Real. Dial. Hang up. Hangup. )
PDF
Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing on ... (Trends: Audience to Participants,Known Source to Crowdsource,Research)
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Email Connects 85 Percent Of The World; Social Media Connects 62 Percent
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IPSOS/REUTERS...
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03/28/12 
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Argentina, Russia and South Africa show highest social media use at 75%, with the US at 60% and Japan at 35%.
(Email still rules the day in Hungary, Sweden, Belgium, Indonesia, Argentina and Poland, at around 94%. The US lags in VOIP (10%), compared to 36% in Russia and 25% in India. )
(Reuters) - Most of the world is interconnected thanks to email and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a new poll released on Tuesday.
Eighty five percent of people around the globe who are connected online send and recei... (Trends: Audience to Participants)
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The hierarchy of content creation and consumption
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SCALEBOOK...
|
03/26/12 
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The process of content creation and content consumption is closely related to the hierarchical structure of content types, he said.
(Primary Content is original content produced by original content producers. The rest of these copies are copies.)
Social web content management is all about creation and consumption of content. What sets it apart from traditional content management is the fact that consumers and content creators are interchangeable. Each content consumer is a potential content creator... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Audience to Participants)
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Smart Phones Control Your Movements
|
MCCORMICKNORTHWESTERN...
|
03/20/12 
|
Unconscious Granfalloons trace predetermined paths across the globe, at the bidding of the puppet masters.
(Big Fans of Free Will may find this news a bit chilling.)
Eighty-eight percent of Americans now own a cell phone, forming a massive network that offers scientists a wealth of information and an infinite number of new applications. With the help of these phone users and their devices cameras, audio recorders, a... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Solo to Swarm,Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public),Audience to Participants,Services become Games)
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Gannett to Crowdsource News
|
WIRED...
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03/18/12 
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News desks become coordination centers for media types, instead of news categories,.
(Many former journalists in the crowd now.)
Jeff Howe 11.03.06
The publisher of "America's newspaper" is turning to America to get its news.
According to internal documents provided to Wired News and interviews with key executives, Gannett, the publisher of USA Today as well as 90 other American... (Trends: Audience to Participants,Known Source to Crowdsource,Hyper-Local / Small Town Survivors,Nameplate to Disembodied)
|
People Too Stupid To Know They're Dumb
|
LIVESCIENCE...
|
03/06/12 
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Stupid people running democracies by popular vote ensure that neither the very best, or the very worst, are elected.
(And in the end, mediocrity is its own reward. See also "People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish".)
A growing body of psychology research shows that incompetence deprives people of the ability to recognize their own incompetence. To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it. Similarly, unfunny people don't have a good enough sense of humor to t... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Audience to Participants,Class Warfare)
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The eBook Backlash
|
NYT...
|
03/06/12 
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When is reading an eBook not like reading a book?
(When is soaking in a tub not like kayaking through the rapids? "She is constantly fending off the urge to check other media, making it tough to finish books.")
Can you concentrate on Flaubert when Facebook is only a swipe away, or give your true devotion to Mr. Darcy while Twitter beckons?
Related
Times Topic: E-Book Readers
Add to Portfolio
Go to your Portfolio »
Readers Comments
Share your thoughts.
... (Trends: Information overload vs ability to comprehend,Audience to Participants,Print to Electronic to ?,Mass Media to Atomized)
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Make me famous! Steal my stuff!
|
CONTENTSUTRA...
|
02/21/12 
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"...we have leveraged piracy to help us succeed."
(There is no such thing as bad publicity (except for really bad publicity). )
Alok Kejriwal is a digital entrepreneur based in Mumbai. He is the CEO and co-founder of games2win.com.
Every time I listen to my iPod, I remember Napster.
The record industry treated Napster like the Taliban of Piracythey sued, fought and closed it... (Trends: Audience to Participants,Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Services become Games,Creation to Aggregation,The Renaissance of Copyright)
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The Gatekeeper is Dead! Long Live the Gatekeeper!
|
JohnPaton...
|
02/21/12 
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Forget about being the Gatekeeper. Get out of the chair and swim in the news stream.
(It's the feed, boss, it's the feed. Always, the feed.)
(John Paton, Digital First, speaking to the Canadian Journalists' Association FEb. 12, 2012).
(Speaking notes for an address to the Canadian Journalism Foundation
Toronto, Canada, 2/16/2012)
Good evening.
Im old media.
This is my 36th year as... (Trends: Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion, Audience to Participants, Services become Games)
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Facebook's 'man in the middle' attack
|
ITWorld...
|
02/09/12 
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Like a spy spying on two other spies who are spying each other.
("It's not the sharing that's bad, it's the technological design of giving it all to someone in the middle.")
Dan Tynan -- A few days ago I wrote a post asking whether Facebook was actively helping law enforcement track down bad guys using facial recognition technology. (The answer: Not really.)
I had to publish it before I got a response from Eben Moglen, the ... (Trends: Data to Meta News, Audience to Participants, Creation to Aggregation)
|
In the coming year, Social media journalists will #Occupythenews
|
NIEMAN...
|
01/07/12 
|
Burt Herman writes: "Journalism will be more collaborative, embracing the fundamental social nature of the Internet."
(The transformation of citizens into journalists is an effect of the spread of technology into the hands of intelligent people. Also unintelligent people, and therein 'lies the rub.')
Social medias essential role in serious journalism can no longer be ignored. Next year, social media journalism will finally grow up.
Journalism will be more collaborative, embracing the fundamental social nature of the Internet. The story will be shap... (Trends: Audience to Participants, Known Source to Crowdsource, Creation to Aggregation)
|
The Truth, on average.
|
NYT...
|
08/09/11 
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Is it real, or is it anonymous?
(How can the crowd-sourced product of a male-dominated Western-dominated society turn out to be Western, and male-dominated?)
HAIFA, Israel
MAKING fun of Wikipedia is so 2007, a French journalist said recently to Sue Gardner, the executive director of the foundation that runs the Wikipedia project.
And so Ms. Gardner, in turn, told an auditorium full of Wikipedia contribu... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource, Audience to Participants)
|
Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas
|
SCIENCEBLOG...
|
08/03/11 
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As ye think, so shall ye be.
(The influences of beliefs are routinely underestimated.)
Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Ne... (Trends: Audience to Participants, Knowledge to Belief)
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YouTube 2.0 helping new stars redefine TV
|
USAToday...
|
06/02/11 
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Redefining TV is the effect of the process, not the goal.
(The real clue is the extension into media space of the passion of the enthusiast retailer.)
... (Trends: Audience to Participants, Local to Granfalloon, Synergy at Vortex Points)
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Assange: Facebook 'the Most Appalling Spy Machine' Ever
|
RT.com...
|
05/07/11 
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Privacy is an illusion if you live online.
(The presence of a lack of privacy identifies the need for the opposite of this condition. Both facts argue for the pedigree of information.)
i4u points out an interview with Julian Assange in which the controversial WikiLeaks spokesman calls Facebook "the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented." He continues,
"Here we have the worlds most comprehensive database about people, t... (Trends: Solo to Swarm, Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public), Audience to Participants, Research)
|
Traffic Bait Does Not Bring Ad Clicks
|
NYT...
|
10/24/10 
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Profitable stories are profitable because they engage readers, or deliver a commercial advantage.
(Bottom line: Engaged readers are good for advertisers. This should not be a surprise.)
By JEREMY W. PETERS
Published: October 17, 2010
RECOMMEND
TWITTER
E-MAIL
SEND TO PHONE
PRINT
REPRINTS
SHARE
Sure, articles about Lindsay Lohans repeat trips to rehabilitation and Brett Favres purported sexual peccadilloes generate loads of re... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon, Audience to Participants)
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Why YouTube Viewers Have ADD and How to Stop It
|
ADAGE...
|
10/01/10 
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The Video Was Soooooo Long!
(It was still playing right after I started it.)
How often do you click away from online videos while they're playing? Yeah, me too. In a world of nearly infinite choice in online video, it doesn't take much to get bored or distracted or... and poof, we're gone.
This behavior of viewers clicking away or... (Trends: Audience to Participants, Mass Media to Atomized)
|
72% of US Adults Support Violent-Game Ban For Minors
|
GAMESPOT...
|
09/16/10 
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Don't teach them to shoot with video guns.
(Only real guns allowed up to age 17. )
Zogby survey of 2,100 adults find nearly three-quarters favor law forbidding sale of "ultraviolent or sexually violent" games to children; full 75% disapprove of industry's handling.
The US Supreme Court won't start hearing arguments over California's l... (Trends: Audience to Participants)
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Why a school beats Facebook: how behaviors spread through networks
|
ARSTECHNICA...
|
09/12/10 
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Multiple interpersonal connections speed the spread of behaviors.
(Disease, on the other hand, spreads primarily by contact.)
content
"By Kate Shaw | Last updated 3 days ago
We all spend much of our days engaged in social networks, whether its online, at work, or out with our friends, and we have a tendency to pick up new habits through these connections. A new study in Scie... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon,Solo to Swarm,Audience to Participants)
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Immersed In Too Much Information, We Can Sometimes Miss The Big Picture
|
NPR...
|
08/16/10 
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Tasking is good. Multi-tasking can be good, but it can also block our view of the road.
(Multi-multi-multi-tasking, however, is not so good. )
content
"by DAVE PELL
Even in the era of Facebook, this was not a face I expected to see.
A few weeks ago, I might have argued that its almost impossible to shock members of Generation TMI. I would have been wrong. I was shocked by a recent Time co... (Trends: Audience to Participants,Information overload vs ability to comprehend)
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Selfish Elites vs. Independent Geeks?
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MYTYPE...
|
07/29/10 
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Porsches are not evil cars.
(But their owners are usually, uh, "characteristic." Turns out the same might be said of users of Apple iAnythingers, Pit Bull dog owners, Coca Cola die-hards, and Hummer SUV drivers. (OK, I made up the Hummer part. But, think about it.))
(Updated with comments on methodology below) The iPad is one of the more controversial mainstream technology products in recent memory. Some love it, others think its pointless. Naturally, the debaters believe that their opinions are about the product. ... (Trends: Solo to Swarm,Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies,Audience to Participants,Desktop to Mobile,Class Warfare)
|
METAWEB (FreeBase): Real-Time Wide-Spread Content Indexing Service.
|
METAWEB...
|
07/18/10 
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Barcodes for content. A unique approach to making information valuable (or findable).
(notes
"Metaweb provide real-time indexing of ""partners"" content and cross-mapping their content molecules to a category of millions of ""entities"" (uh, ""subjects."")")
YouTube... (Trends: Known Source to Crowdsource,Audience to Participants,Critical Journalism to Normalized Promotion,Content Aggregators Cloud The Truth,Creation to Aggregation,Mass Media to Atomized)
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CEO of AOL wants to fix technologically-challenged journalism
|
EDITORSWEBLOG...
|
06/10/10 
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Carole Wurzelbacher'S take on AOL's approach to Citizen Journalism. Smart woman.
(She mentions that AOL's Tim Armstrong said "content space will become the epicenter of the internet." I would note that "Epicenter" is the surface spot directly above (as Wikipedia claims) "the point where the fault begins to rupture, and in most cases, it)
The CEO of AOL recently said that he hopes his company will be the "world's largest producer of high quality content," reports Business Insider. Tim Armstrong, AOL's CEO, reported during an Internet Week panel that he hopes for AOL to hire hundreds more jo... (Trends: Audience to Participants, Hyper-Local / Small Town Survivors)
|
Twitter Forcasts Box Office Results
|
LATIMES...
|
04/06/10 
|
The sum total of all tweets is more accurate than any individual twit.
(We call it "Meta-News", information derived from information overload.)
pril 02, 2010|By Jessica Guynn and John Horn
Want to know how "Clash of the Titans" will fare at the box office this weekend?
Check Twitter.
So say two Silicon Valley researchers who claim they have discovered a way to use the popular social media s... (Trends: News to Meta News, Audience to Participants)
|
The 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism
|
POYNTER...
|
02/23/10 
|
Steve Outing's remarkable analysis of Citizen Journalism.
(Must reading.)
"Citizen journalism." It's one of the hottest buzzwords in the news business these days. Many news executives are probably thinking about implementing some sort of citizen-journalism initiative; a small but growing number have already done so.
RELATED R... (Trends: Audience to Participants, Known Source to Crowdsource, Local to Granfalloon)
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Pew Finds Gadgety Youngsters Most Likely Tweeters
|
HUFFINGTONPOST...
|
10/23/09 
|
(Kids do the darndest things. Kids and U.S. House Members.)
Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. This represents a significant increase over previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009, when 11% of internet use... (Trends: Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public), Audience to Participants)
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Most Social Media Users Are Addicted
|
WEBROOT...
|
 
|
But we could quit anytime! Really! We don't really need it, I mean, not really, do we?
(Webroot's annual survey of Social Networking shows that users get lots of 'cookies' from their social media.)
Third annual report finds cybercrime on social networks continues to climb despite increased privacy and security measures
Broomfield, Colo., August 16, 2011
With malware showing no signs of abating on social networks and continuous news of the privacy i... (Trends: Local to Granfalloon, Anonymous (private) to Profiled (public), Audience to Participants)
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Latest Clips
|
TechCrunch 09/03/16
"In the Experience Age, the primary input is visual and the dominant feedback is attention." -- The movement of attention up the chain fulfills the value creation.
Trends:
the conversation 08/10/16
Personality type plays a role in smartphone addiction. -- Check your phone 150-300 times per day? You are sick.
Trends:
TechCrunch 08/05/16
Facebook automatically filtering structure-induced content. -- Structure recognizes structure as a threat. Facebook responds to 'clickbait' content by filtering it out of newsfeeds. Therefore, content generated to meet the demands of structure are filtered.
Trends:
Financial Times 07/27/16
Mixed fortunes of the digital education business suggest hits are elusive "Content would be a great business if one produced only hits, but it never seems to work that way. The lack of barriers to anyone spending prodigious amounts of capital to create the next smash is what ensures a pedestrian return on that capital." -- This illustrates how the role of 'content' has changed away from the 'content of the content' to the role of the content in filling reserved holes in production and distribution structures.
Trends:
BackChannel 07/21/16
Copmpact for a Free, Open and Neutral Network: You have the freedom to use the network for any purpose as long as you don’t harm the operation of the network itself, the rights of other users, or the principles of neutrality that allow contents and services to flow without deliberate interference.
You have the right to understand the network and its components, and to share knowledge of its mechanisms and principles.
You have the right to offer services and content to the network on your own terms.
You have the right to join the network, and the obligation to extend this set of rights to anyone according to these same terms. -- How a self-configuring network was built.
Trends:
CED 07/14/16
Cord cut. -- All that wasted wire.....
Trends:
Gizmodo 06/15/16
Tightly cold makes better taste. -- See also scientific american study of coffee
Trends:
ScienceDaily 06/08/16
Wait a minute: can you see my hand? -- Oh, yeah, and concentration.
Trends:
Irish Independent 05/17/16
We showed in 1991 that print drives online participation. -- The Independent commissioned the study.
Trends:
Wired 05/01/16
User pressure for bandwidth is having the predictable effect. --
Trends:
eurekalert 04/22/16
"So, like, I realized I was only going 20 in a 50, and I said 'Hey, man, check it out. I'm only going uh, uh, uh. Cool.'" -- Wait a minute; can you see my hand?
Trends:
ScienceDaily 04/21/16
Evidence of a compromised dopamine system has been found in heavy users of marijuana. -- Like, heavy, man.
Trends:
ScienceDaily 04/18/16
Adding coffee to the diet of people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) could help reverse the condition, according to a new study conducted in mice . --
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slashdot @ apple.com 04/16/16
The structure expects consumers behavior 'X'. Consumers behave 'X'. Production expands. -- Q. #2 of How does Apple conduct its Product Greenhouse Gas Life Cycle Assessment?": "To model customer use, we measure the power consumed by a product while it is running in a simulated scenario. Daily usage patterns are specific to each product and are a mixture of actual and modeled customer use data. Years of use, which are based on first owners, are assumed to be four years for OS X and tvOS devices and three years for iOS and watchOS devices. More information on our product energy use is provided in our Product Environmental Reports." Point number 2 for the question "How does Apple conduct its Product Greenhouse Gas Life Cycle Assessment?"
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Addiction to Habit Forming Technologies, Technological Determinism,Behavior Creates Structure,Services become Games
ScienceDaily 04/15/16
Effect similar to other addictions -- Yup.
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