Some believe that the proliferation of blogs, wikis, tagging and other so-called social technologies is inspiring a networking revolution on the Internet. Post your thoughts on this issue in comments below.
In just a few years no one, big or small, will have absolute control over entertainment. We're getting back to our roots, when audience applause mattered more than marketing budgets.
It's inspiring to hear all this talk about taking back the Web, but we've heard this all before, no? Remember that Yahoo bought Flickr, Fox bought MySpace, and many others are rumored to be in play. Power to the people? Enjoy it while it lasts.
It's all well and good saying that the people are taking back the media, but where will the money come from to produce the records/movies/...
Big business will always own mainstream media as they have the money to support it, while the niche players will still be niche, but with the internet as a market tool as well as traditional methods.
"The same is true for most everything" should of course read "The same is true for almost everything", but I seem unable to edit the article and correct it.
I've used Wikipedia and MS Encarta about the same amount and I can say Wikipedia seems to be more historically neutral than Encarta. Whereas Encarta has some egregious rewrites of history to suit the editors, thus far I haven't had any historical objections to anything in Wiki. The more I use Wikipedia, the more I like it.
Wikis lack the professional, scholarly journalistic content of mainstream TV news shows like Today that show Al Roker being blown over by the winds of an approaching hurricane. Because of this defcit, they will fail, according to Jeff Zucker.
Seriously, I like many folks have abandoned TV news except for PBS. What can you expect from news departments that report up to the entertainment group. How much time do you want to waste watching Katie Couric with that sh*t eating grin dribbling her nonsense? How many stories do you want to hear about high petrol prices only being told from the perspective of auto drivers? Like, there is no impact of high petrol prices on truckers? On FedEx/UPS? I'm seeing shipping prices for mail order small items that sometimes exceed the cost of the item itself? With this kind of tunnel-vision reporting, you may as well get your news from the paperboy down the street.
The group of museums exploring how tagging can enable use of museum collections -- and foster links between people and institutions -- can be found at www.steve.museum.
I love the idea of the community tagging content to make it more relevant when you are searching. I think eventually, there has to be some taxonomy that defines this (such as the dewey decimal system) to allow for folks to remember the more and more obscure tags that will have to be created to keep things unique (and prevent folks from stepping on each others toes)
Great to see the social aspects of the INternet beating the technological aspects though !!!
I recently contacted Valentine One the Radar Detector maker. I inquired as to the possibility of creating a detector that would integrate a 360-degree display converged with a real-time GPS. If producible, the combined capabilities would display (with pinpoint accuracy) the location of Police monitoring traffic with RADAR. I'd pay $1,000 for that detector!
Although it's a bit new, I found this mapping-travel-site, to be more innovative. Not only does it allow you to post pics and write a blog of teh pllaces you've been, but it can help you plan your future trips too! Take a look,
According to my statistic at least 40 mashups are created every day using http://www.mapbuilder.net service. People tag more than 200 locations per day.
"And it normalizes for them that they can ignore conventions."
The preceding quote is attributed to one expert quoted in the article. That expert is commenting unfavorably on the trends presented in the article. Ironically, if the above quote is correct, could the trends be worth their weight in gold?
Tags don't seem very new. In the early 70's, systems engineers doing 'requirements analysis' for 'one-of-a-kind' systems would break the ice by using a "wags, tags, bags" process in which the first step was to gather up all the 'partly-baked' WAGS that could be conceived about the system. The next was to TAG those WAGS so as to remove duplicates, shadows, and near neighbors. The last was to BAG the tags into categories each of whose content would span some dimension of the system-to-be. Method wasn't fit for finding directions in the daylight, but could be suprisingly useful for helping a group to grope its way out of the dark. Perhaps web tags have a similar fitness characteristic.
These new collaborative approaches are going to change the way that organizations produce innovation. Google is already showing that it can work. I have written an essay entitled "Turning Knowledge Workers into Innovation Creators" that details how the principles of spontaneous organization, or what I refer to as an emergent organization, can be used to produce an environment that fosters innovation creators.
If you are interested, you can find out more at www.innovationcreators.com.
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Big business will always own mainstream media as they have the money to support it, while the niche players will still be niche, but with the internet as a market tool as well as traditional methods.
same is true for almost everything", but I seem unable to edit the
article and correct it.
Seriously, I like many folks have abandoned TV news except for PBS. What can you expect from news departments that report up to the entertainment group. How much time do you want to waste watching Katie Couric with that sh*t eating grin dribbling her nonsense? How many stories do you want to hear about high petrol prices only being told from the perspective of auto drivers? Like, there is no impact of high petrol prices on truckers? On FedEx/UPS? I'm seeing shipping prices for mail order small items that sometimes exceed the cost of the item itself? With this kind of tunnel-vision reporting, you may as well get your news from the paperboy down the street.
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Great to see the social aspects of the INternet beating the technological aspects though !!!
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* http://www.chiramattel.com/george/blog/2005/11/13/is_folkmind_better_than_google.html
more innovative. Not only does it allow you to post pics and write
a blog of teh pllaces you've been, but it can help you plan your
future trips too! Take a look,
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The preceding quote is attributed to one expert quoted in the article. That expert is commenting unfavorably on the trends presented in the article. Ironically, if the above quote is correct, could the trends be worth their weight in gold?
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