Get RealStowe Boyd's SoapboxReminder -- Message- January 31, 2006 For those reading Get Real... you should definitely take a look at my new blog, Message, for the most frequent and up to date of my writing.http://getreal.corante.com/archives/2006/01/31/reminder_message.php Message - A New Blog- January 16, 2006 Check out Message, my new solo project. Among other things, I finding out how fast you can go from zero on Technorati, back to something like what I have achieved here at Get Real. tags: Message, stowe+boydhttp://getreal.corante.com/archives/2006/01/16/message_a_new_blog.php The Individual Is The New Group -- Part 1- January 12, 2006 Spread throughout my recent writing, a certain latent idea is lurking, incompletely articulated, which I summarize in the title: the individual is the new group. About a decade ago, the one of the then-current terms of art for social tools was groupware, and the term was intended to impart the core metaphor: groups need to collaborate, and tools need to be defined with that in mind. As a result, we saw the rise of application platforms like Lotus Notes, intended to counter the flaws of...http://getreal.corante.com/archives/2006/01/12/the_individual_is_the_new_group_part_1.php 1000 Tags: Tag Advertising- January 11, 2006 I stumbled upon 1000tags.com today (pointer from Tech Crunch), and I think there is something interesting going on there. The company is experimenting with a commercial tag cloud: people can pay to claim a tag exclusively, or can pay much less to share a tag. from the FAQ Why should I book (buy) a tag 1000tags.com is - that we know - the very first project that offers booking and buying tags from a "tag cloud". Or in other words, it is the first commercial tag cloud. That means that it...http://getreal.corante.com/archives/2006/01/11/1000_tags_tag_advertising.php Social Ethics And Technology Design- January 11, 2006 A thought provoking article on decision making in technology design by Richard Devon, which suggests that technology should be designed more democratically if it is to actually serve many constituencies: from SPT v8n1: Towards a Social Ethics of Technology: A Research Prospect by Richard Devon Taking a social ethics approach means recognizing not only that the ends and means of technology are appropriate subjects for the ethics of technology, but also that differences in value systems that...http://getreal.corante.com/archives/2006/01/11/social_ethics_and_technology_design.php Nancy Hass on In Your Facebook.com- January 11, 2006 Another page in the on-going hoo-ha about the evils inherent in online social networking, from the New York Times, where Nancy Hass reports on the ways that universities are starting to try to shut down the Facebook because of the fear of cyberstalking, or students posting pictures of themselves that show them drinking, or acting sexually provocative: from In Your Facebook.com - New York Times "Every girl I know has had some sort of weird experience," says Shanna Andus, a freshman at the...http://getreal.corante.com/archives/2006/01/11/nancy_hass_on_in_your_facebookcom.php Black and White and Dead All Over: Is Newsprint Dead- January 10, 2006 Michael Kinsley writes a funny, but dead-on piece about the dumb process of making newspapers and delivering them to our doors, and why people are opting out: from Black and White and Dead All Over by Michael Kinsley And so, at last, there are two piles of paper: a short one of stuff to read, and a tall one of stuff to throw away. Unfortunately, many people are taking the logic of this process one step further. Instead of buying a paper in order to throw most of it away, they are not buying..http://getreal.corante.com/archives/2006/01/10/black_and_white_and_dead_all_over_is_newspr... Anonymous Trolls, Beware: You Are Breaking Federal Laws- January 10, 2006 Apparently, it is now against federal law to anonymously "annoy" people on the Internet. So if you want to call me a lunatic, or basically just disagree with something I write, remember to use your real name, or you might get busted! from Create an e-annoyance, go to jail Perspectives CNET News.com by Declan McCullagh Buried deep in the new law the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act is Sec. 113, an innocuously titled bit called "Preventing Cyberstalking."...http://getreal.corante.com/archives/2006/01/10/anonymous_trolls_beware_you_are_breaking_fe... EgoSurf: Know Your Place- January 10, 2006 I stumbled across egoSurf today, with sevral cute taglines: "ego surfing without the guilt" and "know your place." egoSurfed for "stowe boyd" and "www.corante.comgetreal" -- see the results . The service collates information from various search engines -- Google, MSN, Yahoo, T'rati -- as well as del.icio.us, and attempts to use some sort of uniform algorithm to generate egoPoints based on the number of references. I was amazed at the number of bookmarks I seem to have picked up recently in...http://getreal.corante.com/archives/2006/01/10/egosurf_know_your_place.php Guy Kawasaki on The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs- January 9, 2006 Guy Kawasaki continues his streak of killer posts with The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs. At the heart of Guy's list is the strange dynamic that goes on in the entrepreneurVC dance. VCs are in business to make investments, which is risky. But they must take risks to get the kind of returns they are looking for, which are BIG returns. At the same time they know that not all their investments can be big winners: that's why they have a portfolio and distribute their risk over a bunch of companies..http://getreal.corante.com/archives/2006/01/09/guy_kawasaki_on_the_top_ten_lies_of_entrepr... |