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Richard Edelman on trust in media melange

Richard Edelman talks about results from the 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer study: Question: Is there — perhaps — an inverse relationship between the trust in media sources and the size of the media company? Take a look at my reasoning … Continue reading

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Social Media Advice from Adam Kmiec

A couple years ago, I still read “tweets” (that is what a lot of so-called social media gurus call blog posts posted at twitter.com). Back then, one of my favorite authors @ twitter.com was Adam Kmiec. After I stopped paying … Continue reading

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It’s the end of the search as we know it :)

New + Improved: Findings Linked In News Post Forum

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An Alternative Domain Registration Model for the ICANN Top Level Domains Idea

Warning: This model is different. I actually ran it by some friends to see if they could come up with what might be wrong with it — so far, no one has come up with anything. One thing that may … Continue reading

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Occupy Keyword Search

Less than a month ago, I suggested in a call-in talk-radio show, that “occupy” might become a term traded on Google’s Adwords marketplace (see “Redet Geld, schweigt die Welt. Was uns Werte wert sein müssen“). The talk-show hosts didn’t think … Continue reading

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The Web is closer to the phenomenological truth of our lives [David Weinberger]

Now, he said, the model of a protean, ever-linked and ever-changing world is killing that. “The dream of the West has been that we will live together in knowledge, that there is One Knowledge. The Web is saying ‘Nice try,’” … Continue reading

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John Battelle: “Brands are used as meaningful platforms” — NOT!

This is an interesting point that John Battelle raises: [The "Big Five"] companies must have scale in terms of direct reach to consumers. By this I mean their brands are used as meaningful platforms by hundreds of millions of people … Continue reading

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The Difference between Nobody and Somebody

In either case, the particular names don’t matter — but whereas it’s impossible for nobody to contribute something, it’s very well possible for somebody to contribute something. Indeed, it even seems downright appropriate. Social entrepreneurship is not about individuals — … Continue reading

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Will Google Finally Give Up on So-Called “Search”?

Defining what is or is not a “search engine” is not very straightforward — it can easily be argued that ebay.com and/or facebook.com are search engines, just as much as google.com and/or youtube.com. Indeed, almost any blog also has a … Continue reading

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David Weinberger interviews Slim Amamou, Rick Falkvinge and others about the Wisdom of the Language

They don’t call it that, though — they call it a  “hive mind” (yet Professor Weinberger notes “for me one of the most interesting things is not the direct connection of minds, but the connection of minds through rhetorical forms, … Continue reading

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