Archive for July, 2009
For Supernova community members in the Washington, DC area, we’re hosting a mixer on Monday August 3. Should be a great collection of DC tech and policy folks… plus special guest Joi Ito!
It will be at Science Club near Dupont Circle (1139 19th Street) between 5 and 7:30pm. Full details and sign-up form at:
http://supernovadcmixer09.eventbrite.com
Friends welcome, but please ask them to register, so we have a sense of numbers.
photo: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
This month, we’re announcing a new weekly teleconference series — Supernova NetworkAge Briefings. On these free, open calls, frank discussion is encouraged (and civil disagreement is embraced). As a follow up to his recent interviews with Clay Shirky and Andrew Keen, Howard Greenstein will moderate the first one-hour Briefing on Thursday, August 6, 11am PST/2pm EST, featuring Andrew Keen (”The Cult of the Amateur”) and Erick Schonfeld (Co-Editor, TechCrunch).
The topic: The “Real Time Web” has worsened information overload. Many agree that information flowing across our news, email, Facebook, Twitter and other flows needs to be curated or filtered. But, who should decide ‘All The News That’s Fit To Share?’
We’ll live-stream Briefings from our… Read More
We’re delighted to launch our first 2009 Supernova Mixer event at Wharton Ι SF Campus on Tuesday, August 11, 5:30pm – 7:30pm.
We invite you to join a lively conversation with Deloitte’s John Hagel and John Seely Brown on The Shift Index — a major new effort to track the real impacts of what we call the Network Age. In their initial report, they address why most companies fail to harness “Real Time Web” connected knowledge flows for competitive advantage; Return on Assets of US firms is falling even as productivity increases; the gap between winners and losers in business keeps growing, and big companies are losing their leadership positions faster than… Read More
When you think about Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, and Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur, you don’t usually look for places they agree. However, in the two video interviews posted today (Clay, Andrew) on the SupernovaHub, it is clear both of them are noticing similar problems keeping up with the real-time web.
The real-time web should be familiar to those who try to parse their Twitter feeds for critical information, or attempt keep up with the flow of information from their friends on the Facebook newsfeed. Much of the information is raw, unfiltered, out of context, or just random. Google’s Udi Manber notes in this piece from… Read More
In this video interview from the Personal Democracy Forum 2009, Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, discusses the Iran Twitter situation (but doesn’t want to call it a “Twitter revolution”). He tells Howard Greenstein how the immediacy of this kind of media reporting affects us differently than standard news programming. Clay also discusses the overload many people experience when trying to parse the real-time web, a topic of interest to many who are interested in the Change Networks theme of Supernova 2009.
Of addition interest is how Clay’s opinions about filtering the real-time web coincide with those of Andrew Keen, who has a very different take on the “everybody” Shirky… Read More
In this video, Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur and talks with Howard Greenstein about his views on the value of real time, in person interaction in the age of online social networking. Additionally, Andrew has some very insightful comments regarding our need for filtering and editorial oversight in the age of the real-time web, which is a very important part of the Change Network theme for Supernova 2009.
UPDATE: Even more interesting (and worthy of its own blog post) is the way Keen’s views and those of Clay Shirky intersect.
A great post from Doc Searls. A key bit:
“At the level of simple customer choice, the industrial system is no different than it was when sellers operated out of carts and stalls at village crossroads. Such is the nature of straightforward retailing. But in our industrial system, sellers sit out at the last link of many value chains. Exchanging goods and services for money is a small part of that system. The final transaction is just the far end a process that moves from source to sale through a series of complex stages in which individual customers have little if any direct say. At the end of those stages the… Read More
At Personal Democracy Forum 2009, I caught up with David Isenberg. He’s famous for telling the Bell companies what they didn’t want to hear – that a “Stupid Network” would eventually replace their smart, centralized one as the main place people communicate. David is never shy with his discussions on policy, and runs an excellent Freedom To Connect conference each year for future thinkers and policy makers.
In this interview, David talks about his take on Change Networks, and notes how, without the stupid network of packets, we’d be missing all sorts of innovation.
We hope to hear more from David at Supernova 2009.
Yesterday, about 600 Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, VCs, and social media geeks piled into the historic Fox Theatre in Redwood City for the 4th annual TechCrunch CrunchUp. Instead of turning off our cellphones and keeping it dark and quiet, we filled the room with the blue glow of laptop screens and the rainstorm sound of typing. And instead of sitting back for a summer blockbuster movie, we watched Robert Scoble on the big screen, video streaming live from England. (Well, okay, there were other panels and presentations, too.)
The topic of the day was Real-Time Streams, and it focused on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, Seesmic, Google, and Twitter. A few… Read More
danah boyd* of Microsoft Research talks to Howard Greenstein at the Personal Democracy Forum 2009. danah’s research on “social media, youth practices, tensions between public and private, social network sites, and other intersections between technology and society” quite well known, and she joined Microsoft Research in January.
At PDF her talk on The Not So Hidden Politics of Class Online was well received. In this Video we discuss that topic as well as other thoughts around how Social Networks allow us to connect and interact.
danah will be a speaker at this year’s Supernova conference.
(*yes, she spells her name with small letters)
