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Steve Rubel wrote an interesting post today on the disappearance of deep blogging and the steady transformation of the ‘blogosphere’ into the ‘lazysphere’. He points to the current practice of many bloggers of simply jumping on the bandwagon of the story-du-jour without adding anything in the way of insight or added value to the discussion. [...]

Excellent discussion between Don Tapscott and Google’s Eric Schmidt; part of Google’s Author series. This is a useful primer on the ideas of mass collaboration. An interesting moment, I thought, was Tapscott’s suggestion that success in the old paradigm makes it more difficult to adopt the new one…sounds a lot like our saying; “Nothing Fails [...]

A lot continues to be said about Web 2/3/4.0, and as always, it’s fascinating to see what the various conceptions, definitions and understandings of it seem to be. From a very technical perspective, Google’s Eric Schmidt recently gave an explanation of what he believes it to be, and predictably, he looks at it from the [...]

Wired did a feature a few months back on radical transparency; the concept of making a company open and interactive versus closed and proprietary. The examples given were, themselves, quite interesting. In particular, Microsoft’s “Channel 9″ was a fascinating look at the struggle between the usual corporate cultural imperative of keeping internal projects, processes and [...]