photo by NJ Scott Back in the day, businesses had secrets. So did you, but yours were a lot less fun to expose. And then the internet came about, and very swiftly, it became impossible for businesses to keep their secrets. Which, naturally, means that everyone feels like spilling theirs. And, as is the case [...]
A Note on Leadership for Bloggers
photo by pedrosimoes7 If you’re paying attention at all these days, decentralisation is everywhere. Crowdsourcing, microbrands, personal branding – The Cult of Me is in full swing, and it’s leaving a lot of people really puzzled as to how they can either not fall behind, or avoid the trend all together. Here’s a hint: you [...]
My Christmas List
In case anyone’s actually looking: Books: – Trust Agents, by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith – Six Pixels of Separation, by Mitch Joel – Tribes, by Seth Godin – 7th Son: Descent, by JC Hutchins Also: – Zip-up hoodies, 3x or 4x, possibly Large-Tall, for those in the US – plain monocolour is preferred, either [...]
Why We All Win – Cellular Edition
Platform wars are stupid but necessary, because homogeneous doesn’t work in the market place. Simple as that. There’s a lot of kerfuffle lately about the Droid, and Android in general, competing with the iPhone and its platform. Rightly so, but I think some people are missing the point of differentiation with this. At the end [...]
Google's New Toys: Chrome OS and Wave
Your Advice Is Too Complicated!
As I usually do, whenever there’s five seconds, I was reading a blog (in this case, Penelope Trunk’s post about bad career advice) earlier and something made me think: what do I call good advice? And then, of course, I made the knee-jerk move of devoting fifty minutes to watching the Trust Agents keynote at [...]



The Meta Human
photo by Kevin Spencer Are you a Me Too person? I’m a Me Too person. I like to be included in things, whether I get thee by my own merit or gate jump my way in. Being Meta is all about the act of Me Too. At the risk of being self-referential, I love the [...]