- Jeff Jarvis says “Big advertisers and big agencies are chickenshit. They need to grow some balls or else they’ll find new competitors running circles around them”
- Tom Guarriello summarises Malcolm Gladwell’s latest exploring the “dynamics of three disparate, but structurally-similar, problems: homelessness, police brutality and automobile emissions”
- As companies proliferate produts for diverse customers, their gains may be outweighed by the complexity. Via cph127
- More good stuff from Jarvis: “Too many people judge interactivity by the worst of it… This, I think, comes mostly from people who wish they could dismiss interactivity, and the internet and blogs with it.”
- Sonia Mikich: “I hereby refuse to feel badly for the chronically insulted. I refuse to argue politely why freedom of expression, reason and humour should be respected.”
- Euan asks ‘So in the context of time consuming knowledge management practices.. what is all this knowledge that we get so much value from “capturing” “extracting” or even “harvesting”? And perhaps more pertinently – what’s the point?’
- Nick Cohen argues “this is not a clash of civilisations but a civil war within the Islamic world between theocratic reaction and the beleaguered forces of liberty and modernity.”
- Earl Mardle advocates a networked solution to Sydney’s water shortages… one that empowers the mass of individuals, rather than chanelling fund to big companies
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