Say Everything is one of my favourite books. Not just because it covers the history of blogging, which is at the core of my doctoral research – but also because it encapsulates the empowerment we associate with the read/write web: freedom from intermediaries, access to the modern equivalent of a private printing press, the right […]
Rethinking Education
As you age, you realise that the most precious currency you have is time. In the business world, I’m the equivalent of a grizzly veteran. I am old enough to have seen my first computer when I was 23, known life before the Internet, navigated the dot boom and bust at the end of the […]
Be helpful
Chris Brogan recently wrote an excellent post about why community really matters. And then Valeria Maltoni waded in that ‘being helpful’ should be ‘the new black’. If you’re in Melbourne on the 22nd and 23rd September, you can catch my friend Stephen Johnson and social media luminaries such as Darren Rowse and David Armano over […]