Newspapers and Microsoft: Dysfunctional corporate cultures and the fall of empires

by KevinFebruary 4, 2010

Steve Yelvington flagged up a comment piece on the New York Times from Dick Brass, a vice president at Microsoft from 1997 until 2004. Brass worked on Microsoft’s tablet PC efforts, something I remember covering at Comdex in 2002. Despite a huge push by Microsoft, they never became mainstream outside of a few niche applications, [...]

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The Impenetrable Layer of Suck

by SuwFebruary 4, 2010

Kevin spotted a great Tweet yesterday from Peter Corbett:

And I’m afraid I just couldn’t contain the geologist within (click to see full size):

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CSWE Roudup – 29 Jan 10

by SuwJanuary 29, 2010

Herewith your weekly dose of links!
What can a dating site teach enterprise?
In praise of messiness and noise
Embrace your daydreams
The iPad – a social computer?
Are you T-shaped?
Dante’s Internet

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The iPad is a content strategy

by KevinJanuary 28, 2010

As a geek and a journalist who often covers technology, I pay attention to the gigabytes and gigahertz that most people don’t. To be honest, in the era of giga-computing, the average user can’t really tell the different between a dual-core computer running at 2.3Ghz or 3.2Ghz. It does whatever they need it to.
The tech [...]

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CWSE Roundup – 22 Jan 10

by SuwJanuary 22, 2010

For your reading pleasure this week, from The Social Enterprise:
Social media and productivity
Privacy is not dead
Melcrum survey reveals widespread use of social media behind the firewall
Making the case for internal community managers
Customer outreach doesn’t trump genuine change
Enjoy!

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Christian Crumlish on Social Design Patterns

by SuwJanuary 20, 2010

Last night I went to a great talk by Christian Crumlish about the Yahoo! Pattern Library and social design patterns. Christian has a book, co-authored by Erin Malone, out at the moment on O’Reilly, Designing Social Interfaces, from which part of this talk was drawn.
Brief history of patterns
Design patterns – concept of a pattern language [...]

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Generosity and post-scarcity economic media models: Why I love participatory culture

by KevinJanuary 20, 2010

One of the stumbling blocks for media companies looking to create sustainable digital business models is that the economic models differ in fundamental ways from the predominant models of the 20th Century.
Look at the media models of the 20th Century, and they are all based to some extent on scarcity and monopoly. Printing presses are [...]

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Journalists: Belittling digital staff is not acceptable

by KevinJanuary 18, 2010

Patrick Smith, recently of paidcontent.co.uk, has a post about the economics of regional newspapers in the UK and he makes the case (again) that the challenges facing British regional newspapers come down quite simply to economics.
This is not about the quality of journalism – this is about economics: The web is simply more effective for [...]

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CWSE Roundup – 15 Jan 10

by SuwJanuary 15, 2010

This week’s activity over on The Social Enterprise for your delight and delectation:
Scrobbling business
Two thoughts
Giving ourselves space to create
David Carr on Twitter
Still think social media is a fad?

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CWSE Roundup – 8 Jan 10

by SuwJanuary 14, 2010

Things got a bit mental before Christmas, as they are wont to do, so I didn’t have the time to do my planned weekly round up of posts over on The Social Enterprise. I blogged throughout the Christmas period – magickally, it would seem, given I was in Lanzarote for a week! So here’s a [...]

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