Next gen media Antony Mayfield recommended Dan Calladine's presentation on Next Generation Media at Slideshare. Lots of interesting factoids about how the networked world is shaping up....

Small pieces David Carr has a good piece in the NYT: Why Twitter Will Endure. I'm less certain about Twitter per se, but Carr makes some excellent points about how easy it is to underestimate the value of short, apparently trivial, tweets...

Recession or revolution Rob has some punchy things to say about the recession, suggesting that people simply aren't going to go back to the kind of jobs they did before. This is not your usual recession. It is a work revolution....

Social media report Jordan Stone at We Are Social has a useful digest of the Econsultancy Social Media and Online PR report. It's based on talking to around 500 each of clients and agencies. Jordan picks this out:Just under half of companies (46%)...

Solving economic problems with a netflix prize Rob linked to Umair Haque's suggestion: Solve America's Employment Crisis With a Netflix Prize. The whole thing is worth a read but here's the core idea: for each of America's beleagured industries... Here's what I'd do: run a series of...

Social object lesson Rob passes on a great story from Chris Matyszczyk at cnet about Ikea's campaign to launch a new store in Malmo. They opened a Facebook profile for the store manager and started uploading pictures of IKEA furniture. And announced that...

Agnostic internet John Naughton reports on Dave Winer's frustration at Twitter blocking one of his accounts. His offence? His tweets being mainly links. John makes a good argument:Dave is right to point out that this kind of behaviour runs directly counter to...

Random deletions With all this talk of looming battles or alliances between the behemoths of Google, Microsoft, and various Media Empires, let's keep an eye out for the little guy. In which spirit, I was troubled by my friend Jack Yan's series...

Japan and micropayments After linking Alan's passionate defence of the commons, I should also highlight James' thoughts on how Japan has trailblazed micropayments. And so in Japan's mobile world, media is turned on its head from a place where the bills are paid...

Enclosing the commons? Alan Moore has a long and thought-provoking post on what seems like a looming battle between forces of openness and control when it comes to the future of networks. Central point:Enclosing the commons and locking down culture will do massive...

Selling paper More pith from Paul Graham:We can all imagine an old-style editor getting a scoop and saying "this will sell a lot of papers!" Cross out that final S and you're describing their business model.I think he's on the money with...

Social recruiting Jon Husband spotted this story in the Toronto Globe and Mail: Employers sidestep recruiters to tap social media. An entrepreneur seeking to fill 17 positions asked his employees to share them on Facebook and LinkedIn, and tweet them and encourage...

Holding back time? I pretty much agree with Cory Doctorow's counterblast to Lord Mandelson's plans to disconnect alleged filesharers: Denying physics won’t save the video stars. Lots of good lines, and this one stood out for me:It is not the job of government...

The genie out of the bottle Antony Mayfield links to Google's "mind blowing collection of creative ideas". I just skimmed through, but you could spend days exploring all the web apps listed there. All this inventive technology is being made available to just about anyone with...

Past and future JP has a good post summarising the differences between the analog and digital eras: Musing about culture and customers and choice: the eBaying of “content”....