NYTimes.com: All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate
From Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times: “Aggregation” can mean smart people sharing their reading lists, plugging one another into the bounty of the information universe. It kind of...
View ArticleReal value creation happens at the edge
From Harold Jarche: I think the edge will be where almost all high value work gets done in organizations. Core activities will be increasingly automated or outsourced. Most of the people in an...
View ArticleTED: How Eric Whitacre conducted his virtual choir of 2,000 voices
With an emergent technology, something happens that you’d never imagined. Here, YouTube and Hulu, via WordPress, Facebook, and Twitter — and built upon the Internet — bring something new and wonderful...
View ArticleSustaining democracy in the digital age
From the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities: America needs “informed communities,” places where the information ecology meets people’s personal and civic information needs. This...
View ArticleThe Koh Panyee Football Club: a true story
From TMB Bank, Thailand: In 1986, in a floating village in the middle of the sea that has not an inch of soil, the kids loved to watch football but had nowhere to play or practice. But they didn’t let...
View ArticleRobert Krulwich on the future of journalism
Robert Krulwich It is, I know, hard to find a job. I’m guessing you look at the world of newspapers and magazines and broadcasters and webcasters and Huffposts and Daily Beasts and sometimes the whole...
View ArticleMaria Popova: content curation is a new kind of authorship
From Maria Popova via the Nieman Journalism Lab: New tools in general, and Twitter in particular, greatly challenge the binary dichotomy of attention as something that is either given or taken away,...
View ArticleSteven Rosenbaum on curation, community and the future of news
From Steven Rosenbaum via Nieman Reports: …Today, the idea of journalist as curator is front and center, as the tools to make and tell stories are now in the hands of anyone with a cell phone, laptop...
View ArticleDesigning an Agile Learning Culture for Teams and Organizations
I was fortunate to attend CultureCon in Boston, which focused on designing workgroup practices that embrace agile, nimble learning. This is the world into which our students will be growing. (I’ll be...
View ArticleToward the Integral Internet
Twelve years ago, I was sparked by The Cluetrain Manifesto, a prescient book by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger. This is from the introduction: What if the real...
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