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Users buy containers because they expect to get value out of their contents

Actually, containers are very similar to markets — the containers I am talking about are words: more specifically, keyword domain names. Whereas suppliers use these containers to advertise and sell their goods and services, consumers use containers to express their … Continue reading

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Irrational denotations off the deep end

Whenever I read something David Brooks has written, I always regret it. It leaves me with something worse than a stale aftertaste… — I feel like I have to take a shower or something. So when Paul Krugman mentioned in … Continue reading

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Cory Doctorow is able to make reading news about the behavior of illiterate people entertaining

For example: The [aforementioned] rule of thumb works for cars, for houses, and for every other substantial area of technological regulation. Not realizing that it fails for the Internet does not make you evil, and it does not make you … Continue reading

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Not so fast!

If it takes 7 years for an idea to emerge via social media (did “social media” even exist as a concept 7 years ago?), then that is — in my opinion — quite slow. One reason why it might be … Continue reading

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Social animals — such as primates — like to communicate (in order to be social)

… and humans are primates. Communicating with others can be a kind of social grooming (if we communicate about a person, we thereby care about — i.e. “groom” — them) Linked In News Post Forum

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Ideas shared online are just as authentic, reliable and trustworthy as ideas shared in printed books

There is really no difference in how authentic, reliable or trustworthy ideas are when they are shared only versus in printed matter. The main issue is that most readers have not mastered the level of literacy required to be able … Continue reading

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Do we have to choose what we want to know?

There’s a new book out by David Weinberger called “Too Big to Know” — no I haven’t read it… should I? That’s a choice I have to make. Here’s a quote from an excerpt of the book: Models this complex … Continue reading

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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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Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz Interview Adam Kmiec

At about the same time as I wrote the post about Adam Kmiec’s “social media advice“, Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson were on the telephone with Adam Kmiec — and it has already been posted at the FIR homepage (note … Continue reading

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The Social Contract is a Human Information Technology with which Society + Its Members Advance Civilization (i.e. social information + communication is a practice used in communities to uplift those who interact + contribute to social awareness)

Are intellectual property rights social wrongs? The Social Contract as Human Information Technology: How Individual Character is Socially Constructed Via Social Interaction Linked In News Post Forum

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