All posts in ‘The Changing World’
Why Ariel Waldman is going to Supervova (from here):
“[Supernova is a] conference about “understanding how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world”. From web privacy to web standards, Supernova is great about booking speakers who not only live and breathe the issues they’re discussing, but actively fight for the progress of them in their daily life. Here’s a few people and talks I’m looking forward to from the current line-up:
Speakers:
• Marko Ahtisaari (Dopplr)
• Kevin Bankston (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• Danah Boyd (Microsoft Research)
Talks:
• Social Networks in the Workplace (definitely a talk... Read More
It's no longer the distinction between management and rank-and-file that makes sense in a service-dominated economy, if it ever did in a manufacturing dominated world, but the quality of performance along the scale of creativity and actual contribution.
A new show, sparked by Supernova: Heather Gold, Deb Schultz and Kevin Marks talk “tummeling:” the art of energetically bringing things together: tech, culture, business and people. Watch and join in the pilot on http://twit.tv tonight, Tues Sept 22nd, at 7pm PST/10pm EST
The back story, according to Heather:
Kevin is was at the microphone at the Supernova conference a year or two ago addressing Clay Shirky who had presented his now classic book Here Comes Everybody. Kevin was insistent that there was often more to people randomly connecting and just showing up at places together. There must be people and methods which who played... Read More
On the heels of last week’s “China in the Network Age/Why Twitter and Facebook Should Forget About China” call (recording here), there were three great presentations that were shared by the presenters. Most definitely worth checking out.
Number 1:
Comparison of Western Internet Companies in China v. Chinese Internet Companies in the World
Web2 Asia Startonomics Beijing
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Number 2:
A Market Cap Overview of China’s Top 30 Internet Companies (read the post here)
Rank
Company
Market Cap
Stock Exchange
Description
1
China Mobile
US$ 214 Billion
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Network Age Briefing: “Is The Web REALLY Exceptional?”
September 23, 2009
Listen to show:
“Exceptionalism is the perception that a country, society, institution, movement, or time period is ‘exceptional‘ (i.e., unusual or extraordinary) in some way and thus does not conform to normal rules or general principles. Used in this sense, the term reflects a belief formed by lived experience, ideology, perceptual frames, or perspectives influenced by knowledge (or lack thereof) of historical or comparative circumstances.” (source: Wikipedia)
Join us for a thought-provoking Network Age Briefing with David Weinberger on September 23 at 1pm EDT / 10am... Read More
With Isabel Walcott Draves
“We kept looking for multitaskers’ advantages in this study. But we kept finding only disadvantages. We thought multitaskers were very much in control of information. It turns out, they were just getting it all confused.” — Eyal Ophir, Communication Between Humans and Interactive Media Lab, Stanford University quoted in the New York Times, 8/30/09
The results of the recent Stanford study didn’t come as a surprise to Linda Stone, the high-tech writer and consultant who coined the term “continuous partial attention” in 1997 and was featured in one of Supernova’s Network Age Briefing, “Disconnecting in the Network Age.”
I asked... Read More
Web and chat: http://tobtr.com/s/662500
When: 9/15 4:00 pm PDT / 7:00 pm EDT – 9/16 7:00 am Beijing time.
Most Western coverage of the Internet focuses on the narrative of censorship and control, but misses the vibrant social nature of what is now the largest internet market of the world. In the West, the internet started in business/academia/government, fulfilling mostly functional & utilitarian needs. But in China, the internet started as a consumer phenomenon, focused on entertainment and communications. Also, like most of the developing world, China’s internet has developed hand-in-hand with the growth of mobile, Internet-connected devices – about 25% of total internet users access the internet... Read More
Joi Ito, Chairman of the Creative Commons, describes what Creative Commons is, and how it works. Visiting the Supernova DC Mixer last week, he noted that CC allows creators to license their works with specific freedoms the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination of those things. He also describes companies and government agencies that are using it, and how the use of the Creative Commons license is evolving to enable sets of data to be shared more widely. This is effecting science and education in profound ways.
One of the things I found most profound was when Joi noted that... Read More
Our next Network Age Briefing is “Can We Ever Truly ‘Disconnect’ in the Network Age?”
When: August 13, 2009, at 12:oo pm EST/9 am PST.
Web and chat: http://tobtr.com/s/639145
Call-in Number: (347) 945-6578
One of the defining properties of the Network Age is being connected. It’s connect or bust for business, for government, for pleasure — indeed, for survival. But being “always on” must take a toll on us. Are we dodging “meatspace” relationships by burying our noses in our smartphones? Are we burning out? Is a backlash coming?
Join SupernovaHub’s Isabel Walcott Hilborn as she talks with Linda Stone (who coined the phrase... Read More
“We have to make our passions our professions. If we don’t, this [the economy] is going to be uglier and uglier, and we’re going to feel more and more stressed.” -John Hagel
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John Hagel gives his thoughts on the importance of “passion” at last night’s sold out SupernovaHub Mixer at Wharton | SF. This is just a 30sec snippet; the whole event was over an hour in a packed house. More videos and coverage of the Mixer will be up soon.
Video also available here.
