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Seadragon - an incredible visual viewing/modelling/networking app - from Microsoft. Very classy of BMW to leave their ad until after the presentation.

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Newspaper columnists, pundits and bloggers have dragged out all sorts of scapegoats to take responsibility for the decline in newspaper readership and revenues. A decline which is clearly threatening the future of the entire industry.
Could it be that newspaper websites are badly designed? Could it be Google? Craigslist taking the classifieds? Readers […]

Back around the turn of the century, following a series of high profile “he said, she said” date rape allegations, the Regents at CU Boulder produced dating guidelines for students.
The guidelines mandated that each and every step in the process of becoming intimate must be preceded by obtaining the explicit permission of […]

Late last night I wrote a long and rather turgid post with the heading “If I had a hammer…..” The reference is to Abraham Maslow’s - “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
The post was a critique of an […]

I mean real beginners. If you have been blogging longer than a week or so please move along there is nothing for you here, you already know this stuff.
Actually I’ve been blogging a lot longer than a week. But all the blogs I have built in the past have essentially been marketing fluff - blogs […]

Theme of the week: “old media doesn’t turn in to new media when you put it on the web”. Somewhat counter-intuitively the most problematic medium to transpose for the net is television.
Short snippets of video where our hands stay on the mouse work fine. The net is well suited to watching a 2 […]

Assuming you are not a teenager, not chronically unemployable, and have cable as well as broadband - chances are that the real allure of web video lies out toward the end of the long tail.
You are looking for information you can use, and the value of that information has to justify the time you spent […]

# 21 - say it with grass. They could have printed a brochure, written a blog, or hired Bono - but to promote the global village gestalt Visit London decided to cover Trafalgar Square with turf.
Saturday the turf gets moved to London Parks, and millions of Londoners join the millions of New Yorkers who […]