One of my favorite aggregation sites is Business Week Exchange. To me BX represents a knowledge inventory. Everyone who posts to this site is a media maven, social influencer, and trust agent. Each one represents a galaxy of relationships, experiences, and followers. All the categories are sourced by these users. All of the articles are sourced and often written by these users. All the trending data are produced by the users. By far, my highest QUALITY followers come from BX; not Twitter, not Facebook, and not Friendfeed.
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Executing the News
All this plays out in a delicate dance of “crowd sourced censorship” Whatever survives this gauntlet of execution becomes THE NEWS.
Set the Data Free, Please
People pay money to talk to each other. Other people want to control how when and how much people can talk to each other. The battlefront is technology, like rockem-sockem robots, technologies duke it out in this trillion dollar struggle to control our conversations.
Is the Corporate Structure Obsolete?
In short, we have seen social media replace or duplicate almost every structural element of the traditional corporation outside of the construct of corporations. Can social media provide a corporate structure in and among itself?
Buddhist Economics
Everything is Connected:
The economic models and theories that prevailed through the 20th century are rapidly falling apart. Economists scramble to offer explanations and solutions. However, much of what has gone wrong was anticipated years ago by E. F. Schumacher (1911-1977), an Oxford economist and protégé of John Maynard Keynes who proposed a theory of “Buddhist [...]