Tweet In the past we used to be able to separate the public from the private and business from the personal quite easily. But this was an aberration. Privacy was a tiny blip in the long history of human existence. Going back only as far as our great grandparent’s generation privacy was relatively rare. And [...]
Entries Tagged as 'hyperconnectivity'
Social media: blurring the boundaries
July 15th, 2010 · 4 Comments · ideas
Tags: business·hyperconnectivity·life·social media·social networking·technology·women
Annalie Killian … a woman Catalysing Magic
June 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · a woman in ..., inspiring women
Tweet Here is another post in my series on inspiring women. This time it is my friend Annalie Killian, who is also known as Catalyst for Magic (yes that is really the job title on her business card) or as @MaverickWoman on Twitter. I’ve known Annalie for many years and have always been inspired and energised [...]
OMG the Onion is right about social networking – IMHO it changes nothing yet it changes everything
June 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · ideas
Tweet This post was inspired by a humorous post on The Onion, titled: “New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It: Let Someone Else Report On This Bullshit” It was shared by my friend Mark Pesce via Twitter this morning and gave me a chuckle while I was on the train. But [...]
Tags: future·hyperconnectivity·innovation·people·social networking
The digital revolution is not going away
June 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments · ideas
Tweet The following post is from a talk I gave at the Gov 2.0 lunch on Monday 31 May 2010 at Parliament House in Canberra. The internet is a strange beast; it is everywhere and nowhere all at once. Unlike traditional media – with its registered offices, chief editors, and boards of directors etc. – [...]
Tags: future·gov 2.0·government·hyperconnectivity·innovation·social media·social networking
Ownership, new ideas and openness
June 5th, 2010 · Comments Off · future, ideas
Tweet We see much discussion of the openness and collaborative nature of the web 2.0 world. However, many of the challenges facing us as a result of this new world relate to ownership of virtual goods. There are longstanding conventions that enable us to sort out who owns property in the real world and some [...]
Tags: business·collaboration·hyperconnectivity·innovation·law·social media·web 2.0
Libraries for the future
May 5th, 2010 · 6 Comments · ideas
Tweet I spent most of my youth and childhood hanging about in public libraries and reading their books. In fact I blame libraries for most of my quirks these days, since it was there that I was exposed to dangerous ideas from philosophers, historians and fiction authors. The local, school and state libraries provided a [...]
Tags: collaboration·community·education·future·hyperconnectivity·people·sustainability
Where have all the iconoclasts gone?
April 19th, 2010 · 4 Comments · ideas
Tweet Or how do we escape the ‘experts‘ in the echo chamber? Inspired by @jeffjarvis, whose recent post on TEDxNYed: This is bullshit got me thinking about this whole ‘expertise‘ thing again. Iconoclasts are the people who tear down the idols of faith. Traditionally this has been a religious activity, but the growth of a [...]
Tags: expert·hyperconnectivity·innovation·networked society·social computing
realtime really? my slides from #media140
February 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ideas, speaking
Tweet Spoke during the last session of the day at Media 140 Perth about realtime web and how it might evolve into an internet of connected people and things. Our evolution towards a networked and hyperconnected society is under way. The slides might be somewhat opaque without the commentary but please feel free to ping [...]
Tags: future·hyperconnectivity·networked society·realtime·social computing·technology
Not just Twitter, most conversation is meaningless babble
February 19th, 2010 · Comments Off · ideas
Tweet It’s not really meaningless babble anyway! And this is not necessarily a bad thing. Most conversation is not important for the words we speak. Instead it is the act of being present to the other person and giving attention that gives most conversations their true value. Some experts term this social grooming. It also [...]
Tags: collaboration·communication·community·hyperconnectivity·social networking·twitter
Twitter 2009 retrospective
December 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · ideas
Tweet For me 2009 goes down as the year other people discovered Twitter. It went from a small and fairly intimate place to hangout to a busy bustling intersection of information, commerce and conversations. It felt almost like moving from a small town to a big and somewhat impersonal city. Some of the events of [...]
Tags: collaboration·community·hyperconnectivity·people·social networking·twitter
