I had the great pleasure this evening of attending the VRMhub meeting organised by Adriana Lukas, and attended by a group of extremely clever people working to try to make it happen (and me). Tonight, Cluetrain co-author and father of the VRM project Doc Searls was in attendance. I’ll paraphrase his introduction and add a little commentary.
Right now, VRM …read the rest of this article

I love the film Kes (1969). It was still modern when I went to secondary school, nearly ten years later  – some local authorities were still trying to get it banned when I was teaching in the 90s, and it’s still modern now. This scene, where the poor messenger boy from the second form gets beaten seems really resonant.
They had …read the rest of this article

Since I am quite evidently too pre-occupied to write many blog posts, I have set up a Lifestream thingy on a separate page of this site.
It’s very beta at present and tracks my contributions at twitter, flickr, del.icio.us, last.fm and updates to my work site (NMK). Facebook is already echoing my tweets and blog posts so I’ll save you the …read the rest of this article

via Richard Sambrook and David Brain, here’s a great presentation from the Lift conference, given by Genevieve Bell, who works as an anthropologist at Intel:

It’s about how we all lie online in terms of the way we present ourselves, or rather, that we’ve been lying about ourselves for an awful long time – how we feel, how we feel about …read the rest of this article

[This is a tad off-topic but has a 2.0 in it and so is fair game. Feel free to disagree.]
I was at a press briefing for the launch of a new report called Learning 2.0 from the CIM (Chartered Institute of Marketing) this morning (it’s not online till 21/2). They asked me what I thought of the title. I’m not …read the rest of this article

Fake Steve Jobs is rather more concise than me:

The Borg-Yahoo merger won’t work. Here’s why. It’s like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they’ll run faster.

So Microsoft has tendered a bid to buy Yahoo! for $44.6bn.
I understand that Microsoft has to do something to build on its web strategy/presence. No-one uses Live Search, Live Spaces, or any of the rest. (OK. About one percent of people do). To build up any future trade for advertising, web services or development platforms, they have to increase market …read the rest of this article