Recently (this evening, in fact) I found myself in front of the computer, script in hand, ready to compose an award-winning piece of user content. Unfortunately, when I looked at my first (and second draft) of the masterpiece, I found…
As this is a “list” time of the year, I thought I would take a minute and share my thoughts about how to get started in Social Media in 2010. I’ve been talking to a lot of people about this…
If you’ve read any network theory, you’re probably familiar with Dunbar’s Number, or the idea that groups tend to fall off quickly in effectiveness and cohesiveness once they exceed approximately 150. The finding came from some anthropological research originally, and…
My friend Adam wrote this week that Twitter’s growth may be slowing and that he doesn’t think Twitter will ever be truly mainstream. I disagree, and have two reasons to do so: the market penetration of Twitter is still primed…
Thank you for reading this piece (but back to that in a moment.) Recently, I received valuable advice from a colleague. It wasn’t a business plan for a blockbuster company, a secret formula to synthesize gold from base elements, or…
Thoughtful sepia pumpkin Originally uploaded by gregmeyer This year, we decided to grow our own pumpkins. This isn’t quite true — it should read more like “we planted a few seeds, and then they took over the entire property” —…
I’m writing this post from the comfort of an armchair. I could be anywhere, and that fact is fundamentally changing my behavior by allowing me to get more done from anywhere (even when there is no data). The enabling device?…
We are used to the world of internet communication as an ephemeral, “one-time” communication. Send your email or IM communication and it disappears, without a sound, into the ether. But at least some of those communications are permanently cached and…
Chris Anderson’s recent book, Free (referenced on his blog), paints a vivid picture of a world where information wants to be free. Anderson’s thesis — that the underlying architecture making it possible to produce digital content is getting cheaper all…
