The Reversal of Disclosure

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 [...]

What You're Building Already Exists

We spend a lot of time working on getting bigger, acquiring more, whether it’s money, toys, symbols of status, or yes even networks. But how much yield does this give us after we gain certain volumes? The Law of Diminishing Returns claims that hour two on a task can’t ever equal hour one, but how [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Why People Lock horns Over Twitter

If you do anything in public, you likely get a lot of exposure to arguments. I’m not necessarily talking about actual, empirically provable points here; social animals love tests of prowess, and people place a lot of weight on debating skill. People grumble over parking spots, evangelise for coffee spots and hotels, There are many [...]

Google's New Toys: Chrome OS and Wave

Knee-jerk reaction? You don’t need either of these things. Now that I’ve got all the Google fanboys riled up, let me explain: I’m a Google fanboy too, and even I can see flaws that not many people are mentioning. Like a lot of people, I spent a bit of time since the launch event on [...]

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 Silver Bikini (or) Unwanted Attention

When I first hit the big city, I spent a lot of time clubbing. Yeah, I was one of those guys – it was the turn of the millennium, I had the money (sort of) and I had nothing better to do (so I thought). One of the clubs I went to, the now defunct [...]