OK, so we took August off.  Sue us.  (please don’t actually)
But things are rolling, work is exciting, thoughts are brewing and the world is changing (faster that you thought).

I’ve had a 20-year love-hate relationship with McKinsey.  When I was in my late teens, before I knew much about business, I thought I really wanted to do this kind of high-level consulting.  Then I developed a heavy aversion to strategic corporate thinking, especially corporate consultants.  But there are still really smart people there, and […]

Set aside for a moment the vagueness of “green,” and let’s ask a different question.  In an era where travel is being replaced by virtual conferencing, shopping by eCommerce, and partying by Second Life, what is the carbon cost of all of our time online?
I wrote a piece over at eCo Times which ran last […]

Everyone likes lists, right? RIGHT?!?
Here’s one I picked up at Google I/O, which ultimately traces back to Jaiku co-founder Jyri Englestrom:

What is the object? Social networks need to be about something beyond the connection of people. At Flickr, the object is a photo, at LinkedIn, it’s a job (writ large to include […]

If you don’t know Freakonomics, drop everything and go buy that book (preferably at your locally owned bookstore — walk right in, they’re friendly!). Written by Steven Dubner and Stephen Leavitt, two of the leaders of a new breed of economist, the book seeks to dispel common myths and investigate the difference between […]

“Email is where information goes to die.” nuance partner Bill French, co-Founder of MyST first said that to me sometime around 2002. He was talking about the evolution of wikis, RSS and more collaborative forms of web communication.
Last week at the I/O conference, Google’s Open Social guru Kevin Marks told me that young […]

John Corbett turned me on to a good article at Tech Target about business-focused, web-based, location-aware data mashups, which the author terms ‘bashups.’ Here’s the nut:
BI systems are already very good at sifting through (and/or aggregating) huge volumes of data and turning it into information. If we combine this with mapping, we can get […]

I was recently interviewed as part of a survey of Denver’s telecom industry. On the table was the question of the future of telecom in Denver and Colorado. Our discussion brought to mind a premise that has stuck with me for almost a decade now.
In his 2001 book, As The Future Catches […]

Back in February, I wrote about how Microsoft had lanched Channel9, an honest and open discussion with their developer community, a strategy the heady authors of the Cluetrain Manifesto introduced over a decade ago.
They are now joined by Starbucks and Dell, so says MSNBC.
What’s the nuance? First off, it’s interesting to note that the service […]

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