Chat GPT changes everything (and some of it is bad)
Kate Carruthers The world has been on the brink of revolutionary technological change for a while now and Chat GPT and related generative AI technologies might just have tipped us over into…
networked society
What will change the world? Welcome to the hive mind of Twitter.
One of the things I love about Twitter is the way it enables serendipity on a grand scale. Recently, I can’t remember how, I ran across @blogbrevity (a.k.a Angela Dunn)…
What’s the big idea with social media? #media140
I was lucky enough to be invited to Media 140 in Perth recently to discuss what the ‘big idea’ is with social media. The idea was for a context setting…
Connectedness – it’s not just a technology thing, it’s a people thing
For many years now my friends, colleagues and I have been talking and thinking about the hyperconnections made available to us by the growth of the internet, telecommunications devices and…
The growth of the recommendation economy
Seth Godin wrote about the the attention economy. But it seems to me that we are also seeing the evolution of an online social recommendation economy. When we all lived…
2012: Not the end of the world, but perhaps the end of the world as we know it
As we come up to the year 2012 many prognosticators are predicting the end of the world. I suspect that this will not come to pass. But I do think…
Welcome to the panopticon
Tonia Ries has just published an article titled Privacy Fail: Klout Has Gone Too Far, which outlines how Klout is indexing social networks and creating/measuring user profiles, even if they…
Social media, radical transparency, insights, and klout
One of the various social media influence scoring platforms – Klout – has just changed its algorithm and overnight many people’s Klout scores have dropped. This has caused one of…
The business of social business
Social business is the new trend following on from Enterprise 2.0 – but underlying it is an essential conflict between two different styles of doing business. The conflict is between…
Business, boring jobs and social good
Over the past 150 years businesses have dealt with the challenges of increased scale by optimizing processes, resource allocation and expenditure. However, there is a limit to how much one…