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My co-author, Brian Ballsun-Stanton, presented this at the 5th ICCIT: 2010 International Conference on Computer Sciences and Convergence Information Technology in Seoul earlier today: #c3t An Agreeable Swarm: Twitter, the Democratization of Media & Non-localized Proximity You can view a full text pdf version of this paper here #c3t #ICCIT_
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This video is from Halloween but it's nice to watch the various cats play with their pumpkins:
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One of my great passions is the digital revolution and how it is affecting society. A key area of our life that the digital revolution is changing is government and governance. Revolutionary thinkers like Clay Shirky and others have even posited the notion of a kind of digital direct democracy.
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1. Navigating the tangled web of Enterprise 2.0 enabled platforms is indeed an opportunity "to explore strange new worlds" in business... Enterprise 2.0 has been defined as "the application of Web 2.0 technologies to workers using network software within an organisation or business"
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There is so much pressure on people these days to be successful. And I do not think we are encouraged to stop and think what success actually means for each of us and for society in general. Many of us seem to be on a treadmill. Go to school, get
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The Headshift team is running a short event on the 23rd November, here in Sydney: A social business is one where we use the opportunities presented by new technologies to deliver business value - to reduce costs, increase effectiveness or mitigate risks. Come along to this presentation to discuss a
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These are some thoughts that I presented at the AMP Social Media Cafe in Sydney on 11 November 2010, the slides and references follow below. The future of shopping is social. But that is nothing new – shopping has always been social. The difference is that now we are seeing social
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Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns? Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,— Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones? Crudely renewed, the Salient holds its own. Paid are its dim defenders by this pomp; Paid, with a pile of peace-complacent stone, The
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I've been reading an old article that remains extremely interesting - it is an academic paper dating back to 2001 titled Bad Is Stronger Than Good. The authors note that: ... Bad impressions and bad stereotypes are quicker to form and more resistant to disconfirmation than good ones. "
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It has been fascinating to watch the consumer and media response to the recent increase of interest rates above the Reserve Bank rate by the Commonwealth Bank. Many have expressed their opinion that the Commonwealth Bank is destroying its brand by such a callous action. But this view ignores the