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During the past week I conducted an experiment in digital empathy. Background As many of you are aware, I am obsessed with the potential...

Here is a new concept I have been noodling around with over the past year.  I packaged it into a talk at SXSW with the title: Dear Miss...

A lot has been said recently about the utopian vs. distopian aspects of the Social Web. You can't watch a media broadcast, attend a...

Here is a fun talk I have given at IgniteSF and at Nokia Ideascamp on the connection between Jewish Culture and the Social Web. This...

In the past few weeks as the economy has tanked, startups, VC's and pundits galore have taken a new look on what this means for the...

This being conference season, I have had a number of interesting conversations with analysts, advertisers, investor's, publishers and...

A quick note to say thanks to Brady, Bre et al - for another great Ignite event. Cupcakes were gorgeous and the talks were a blast. I...

I am a huge fan of Michael Wesch <"the machine is us">. This video of a talk he gave in front of the Library of Congress is worth the...

While working with P&G to develop the Social Media Lab, I am constantly wrestling with the BIG and SMALL issues relating to how the...

In preparing for my upcoming "Death of the Grand Gesture" talk at Web2Expo, I've been deep in my usual observational analysis of the...

The recent flurry of posts on "the death of blogging" or blogging versus twitter versus are mute. It is the motivation behind the effort...

I was on a plane to NYC last week and missed Brian, Jeremy & Jeremiah's great posts on "social media is NOT conversation". AMEN! Point...

Everyone is all 'aTwitter' about Google's FriendConnect announcement and last week's MySpace & Facebook announcements. I am ALL for open...

Update 5/5: - Umair has a nice discussion going on over here that started right after I spoted this - it must be in the air! I promise to...

My brain has been popping with random bits and bytes over the past few days. I have also been stuck in front of the keyboard A L0T. So...

There was a little brouhaha this week regarding Lane Hartwell's copyrighted photography being used without permission in a recent...

I have been meaning to clean this slide up - but with my of illustrator skills, by the time I do the universe will be radically...

We access information at greater velocity In smaller bits Requiring a different mode of behavior Learn to weave or die....

Two words I never thought I would string together and yet that is exactly what seems to keep cropping up lately. Chis Carfi has some...

Unfortunately, I will not be able to participate in Blogher Business 07 this week in NYC as I am still abroad but you can.  These are...