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Fashion XOAB, a new sock company started by @RickLevine (the quietest and most enterprising Cluetrain co-author) and his brother Neil. Dig the Kickstarter, which wasted no time reaching its $30k goal. The video rocks too. Follow progress: @XOABsocks. These Sci-Fi … Continue reading →

War Syria crisis: US isolated as British MPs vote against air strikes — live updates. In The Guardian. Health Why We Can and Must Focus on Preventing Alzheimer’s. By David Perlmutter in The Daily Beast. Pull-quote: “…to a very significant … Continue reading →

How to value personal data, by Ctrl-Shift World Economic Forum Sharing Economy Position Paper, at Collaborative Consumption Attention Economy vs. Intention Economy, a diagram by Robert Bashor. Also part of The system dynamics of an intention economy. How does GHCQ’s … Continue reading →

The Deteriorata, which parodies The Desiderata, much as The Gluetrain Manifesto parodied The Cluetrain Manifesto. My fave line from another parody, perhaps by the same guy, of the “Markets are conversations” line: “Markets are money.” QR codes aren’t dead yet. … Continue reading →

Quote of the Day: There is no way to build a mirror world without a network of decentralized cooperating agents. — Phil Windley My keynote talk at KuppingerCole‘s EIC conference in May. (Registration required.) American Customer Satisfaction Index Google’s Loon … Continue reading →

Where TIME Lost the Plot on Snowden and Spying Guardian pieces The NSA surveillance fallout should be a turning point for the tech industry, by Dan Gillmor On PRISM, partisanship and propaganda: Addressing many of the issues arising from last … Continue reading →

Apple beefs up privacy protections in iOS 7. Here’s one reason: iOS 7 users aren’t just consumers; they are customers — of Apple. And, with its finger on the pulse of the market, Apple knows that customers don’t like being … Continue reading →

To the internet giants, you’re not a customer. You’re just another user. — Yahoo, Microsoft, Google et al don’t really offer ‘free’ email and it’s naive to expect any form of customer service from them, by John Naughton in The … Continue reading →

Price-gouging cable companies are our latter-day robber barons: Monopolistic cable providers make internet access an unaffordable luxury for tens of millions of Americans, by Heidi Moore in The Guardian. A cool conference I’d like to attend, but probably won’t. How … Continue reading →

Personal cloud innovation happens at the edges, by Jeff Kramer Gartner Says the Personal Cloud Will Replace the Personal Computer as the Center of Users’ Digital Lives by 2014. A bit aggressive. From March 2012. Photos of Florence, shot from … Continue reading →