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April 3, 2015

On @Cluetrain, @advertising @social and #NewClues

In There Is No More Social Media — Just Advertising, Mike Proulx (@McProulx) begins, Fifteen years ago, the provocative musings of Levine, Locke, Searls and Weinberger set the stage for a grand era of social media marketing with the publication of “The Cluetrain Manifesto” and their vigorous declaration of “the end of business as usual.”… Continue reading

Books, Business, Cluetrain, Future, Harvard, history, Identity, Internet, marketing, Past, Social, Technology

#NewClues, #people, advertsing, Cluetrain, marketing

March 25, 2015

The most important event, ever

IIW XX, the 20th Internet Identity Workshop, comes at a critical inflection point in the history of VRM: Vendor Relationship Management, the only business movement working toward giving you both independence from the silos and walled gardens of the world; and better means for engaging with every business in the world — your way, rather… Continue reading

Business, Events, Future, Health, Ideas, Identity, Internet, IoT, marketing, VRM

advertising, APIs, Berkman Center, decentralization, iiw, IIWXX, independence, investment, liberation, marketing, PDEC, research, sales, Venture Capital, VRM

March 17, 2015

A blast from the independent past

I just ran across a post (below) on my old blog from Tuesday, July 12, 2005: a few months less than ten years ago. It was at the tail end of what Tantek Çelik calls the Independent Web. He gives the time frame for that as roughly 2001-2005, peaking in 2003 or so. “We took it as… Continue reading

Blogging, Identity, Internet, Outlining, Technology

August 7, 2014

What do sites need from social login buttons?

Not want. Need. If a site has one of these… … what is the least information they need from the user? Seems to me that “social” login buttons like these are meant for the convenience of the user. But too often liberties are taken with them. For example, here is what one company says in its… Continue reading

Business, Identity, Law, problems, Research, Technology, VRM

July 27, 2014

Time for digital emancipation

Civilization is a draft. Provisional. Scaffolded. Under construction. For example: That’s Thomas Jefferson‘s rough draft of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration hasn’t changed since July 4, 1776, but the Constitution built on it has been amended thirty-three times, so far. The thirteenth of those abolished slavery, at the close of the Civil War, seventy-seven years after the Constitution was ratified. Today we are… Continue reading

Business, Identity, infrastructure, Personal clouds, Places, Social, Technology, Travel, VRM

December 28, 2013

Automated Assumption Fail (#AAF)

So I just got this email from Pandora: This is an #AAF: an Automated Assumption Fail. I love music, and Pandora; but what Pandora’s telling me here doesn’t square with my experience of using it. I mean, what is “that Lorde song”? Who are are the Royals? Maybe I do like them, but I don’t… Continue reading

Business, Future, Identity, infrastructure, Internet, Places, Technology

December 23, 2013

Seeing Deeply

Cities aren’t simple, especially mature ones. They are deep and complicated places that require equally deep attention to appreciate fully. That’s what I get from Stephen Lewis‘ insights about the particulars of present and past urban scenes and characters in Sofia, New York, Istanbul and other cities he knows well. His latest post, titled The Women’s… Continue reading

Art, Blogging, Business, Geography, Ideas, Identity, infrastructure, Journalism, Links, Past, Personal, Photography, Places

October 14, 2013

IIW Challenge #1: Sovereign Identity in the Great Silo Forest

Who are you? What are you? If the answers come from you, they speak of your sovereign identity: that which is yours and you control. If the answers come from your employer, your doctor, the Department of Motor Vehicles, Apple, Facebook, Google or Twitter, they speak of your administrative identity: that which is theirs and… Continue reading

Business, Events, Identity, problems