Sat, 2009-Jun-27 by nmw.

Do You Write New Media? Social Media? News Media?

What does any of that mean? It’s nonsense!

Saying that there is a difference between a blog and an email is like saying that the words “I love you” are different if written by hand with a pen or typed by hand with a typewriter.

All Online Media (Publishing Technologies) are More / Less the Same

Anything that is online is available to the entire world-wide web. There may be some cryptographers who may argue this point, but I do not care to argue about the 1 in a million case — I am talking about the vast majority of cases.

What matters

is whether people are participating in this topic, this context, this issue, this page, this site….

Are We on the Same Page? Are We Speaking the Same Language?

If so, then please go ahead and tell me what you think — what’s on your mind… right now: in this context (in this web space)…?

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Tue, 2009-Jun-23 by nmw.

Don’t Call Us, Don’t Call You

The revolution will not be telephoned. It will happen. The happening will happen, and the web will record it… — but I’m getting ahead of web 3.0.

So What’s Happnin’ Now?

Now you will continue to see the feedback loop which Tim O’Reilly has very well explicated reiterate — with one added caveat: We do not need to wait for people to speak up. Already today, eye-tracking is happening. But what do eyes actually tell us — anything more than mouse clicks?

What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Webspace?

Some say the spy, some say the virus — but I think it’s the mind.

We need to create a level playing field in which we “don’t mind” the interaction. This is a crucial element of trust. I will show you my thing if you agree not to tell anyone about it. If you say “yes”, but then do “no” — then I’ll say goodbye.

(see also http://gaggle.info/post/141/on-the-web-its-freedom-2-publishing-0 )

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Wed, 2009-Jun-10 by nmw.

You want to know who wears the pants? Context is Relevant!

If I were on twitter, I would be twittering. But since I’m here, I’m gaggling!! ;D

Content is All Good and Fine, But it doesn’t Bring Forward Relevance

It doesn’t really matter if you create a wonderful bunch of content and then hide it under a bush. To make your content shine, you need for it to be in a close relationship to a relevant context. The relationship is the medium — the medium which is the message: the domain name. The domain name that is relevant is the one that is related to the cognitive frame of mind (the cognitive state or structure — even more: the aim) of the user. The user expresses his or her own needs in their own language. (see also virtual shelf space)

Cognitive Structures are Localized

Have you ever remembered a smell + then remembered a story based on that smell? Maybe you have, but perhaps you didn’t even realize it. Or how about when you try to remember something — you can’t remember it , but if you retrace your steps then you can? You are re-creating the context that helped to bring that idea into your awareness.

One-Size Fits-All search (such as Google or Bing) doesn’t get this at all. Even Youtube search doesn’t put you in a “frame of mind”, but only in a “frame of media” (namely: Flash video). Frames of mind are such things as “news” or “games” … or “business” or “poker” … or “credit swaps” (a sub-frame of “swaps”) or “I’ll see you”.

That’s it — I’ll see you later!

:) nmw

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Mon, 2009-Jun-8 by nmw.

I’m Going on a Diet

I want us to share ideas. I don’t care if you have friends or not: just tell me what you care about — but don’t Feed Me Anything You Think, I want it to be relevant to me. Your meaning + My meaning = Shared meaning.

Please: No Pushing — Pushers Are Not Welcome!

Please don’t spew all of your RSS all over me. Tell me what’s important to me. If I think the world is PHLAT (pretty hyper, local and topical), then tell me how it’s not (but only since I’m so obsessed with this kind of information), or that you agree, or whatever — but make sure it’s related.

Relationship Matters

I am he as you are he… — oh, wait: We’ve already been there (see previous link ;).  I’m a patient — are you a doctor? I wanna sing — do you know a song? One I can sing out loud? Sing out strong? I am totally enthisiastic about… — no, not about friends… — about: topics. Our relationships are connected via ideas, topics, shared space in the loci of stories in which our lives intertwine….

(to be continued… :)

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Fri, 2009-Jun-5 by nmw.

Youth Has No Ideas

You want to know what teenagers type into Google? Love advice, get a job… — maybe not how to make money, but also not far from it. In fact: the mass of users lead lives of quiet desparation.

Very few users have any idea how to deal with the flood of data

They call it “too much information” (TMI). Many, no: Most of their elders have this strange optimistic hope that simply because their youngsters carry cell phones, that empowers them to be information professionals. What a joke! I think their elders have smoked too much pot!

Script Kiddies

Then there are these people who act like: look, these kids can write computer programs! OMG! Wake up, you morons! The ability to write a program, while it may prove some adeptness at having learned formalized rules of syntax, nonetheless does not enable the programmer to be able to tell the difference between green thoughts and purple ideas.

So What?

So you old folks have got to give up on these dreamy notions and get back to reality.

There is, however, one point where I feel the “kids” (and yes, I consider myself to be one of them ;) ) are more clear headed than their elders: they realize that no one has the single silver bullet — there is no single killer method of precise domination. And this is also one point where President Obama’s speech in Cairo rang spot on:

“That does not lessen my commitment, however, to governments that reflect the will of the people.  Each nation gives life to this principle in its own way, grounded in the traditions of its own people.  America does not presume to know what is best for everyone, just as we would not presume to pick the outcome of a peaceful election.  But I do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things:  the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed; confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of justice; government that is transparent and doesn’t steal from the people; the freedom to live as you choose.  These are not just American ideas; they are human rights.  And that is why we will support them everywhere.  (Applause.)

“Now, there is no straight line to realize this promise.  But this much is clear:  Governments that protect these rights are ultimately more stable, successful and secure.  Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.  America respects the right of all peaceful and law-abiding voices to be heard around the world, even if we disagree with them.  And we will welcome all elected, peaceful governments — provided they govern with respect for all their people.

“This last point is important because there are some who advocate for democracy only when they’re out of power; once in power, they are ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.  (Applause.)  So no matter where it takes hold, government of the people and by the people sets a single standard for all who would hold power:  You must maintain your power through consent, not coercion; you must respect the rights of minorities, and participate with a spirit of tolerance and compromise; you must place the interests of your people and the legitimate workings of the political process above your party.  Without these ingredients, elections alone do not make true democracy.

“AUDIENCE MEMBER:  Barack Obama, we love you!

“PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Thank you.  (Applause.)”

You’re welcome!

:) nmw

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Sun, 2009-May-31 by nmw.

Wikipedia lets you choose from 26 Languages:

1. العربية
2. Català
3. Česky
4. Dansk
5. Deutsch
6. English
7. Español
8. Esperanto
9. Français
10. Bahasa Indonesia
11. Italiano
12. Magyar
13. Nederlands
14. 日本語
15. Norsk (bokmål)
16. Polski
17. Português
18. Română
19. Русский
20. Slovenčina
21. Suomi
22. Svenska
23. Türkçe
24. Українська
25. Volapük
26. 中文

But on the wikipedia.org homepage, only 10 versions of the encyclopedia are listed:

1. en.wikipedia.org ( 51.74% )
2. ja.wikipedia.org ( 9.36% )
3. de.wikipedia.org ( 8.06% )
4. es.wikipedia.org ( 5.57% )
5. fr.wikipedia.org ( 3.72% )
6. pl.wikipedia.org ( 2.74% )
7. it.wikipedia.org ( 2.68% )
8. pt.wikipedia.org ( 2.24% )
9. ru.wikipedia.org ( 1.42% )
10. nl.wikipedia.org ( 1.30% )

 And the newly launched Pope2You only lists 5 language options:

1. Italiano
2. English
3. Español
4. Français
5. Deutsch

Youtube is available in 17 languages:

1. Česky
2. Deutsch
3. English (US)
4. English (GB)
5. Español (España)
6. Español (Latinoamérica)
7. Français
8. Italiano
9. Nederlands
10. Polski
11. Português (Brasil)
12. Svenska
13. Русский
14. 中文（简体）
15. 中文（繁體）
16. 日本語
17. 한국어

 And Google is available in 124 languages:

1. Afrikaans
2. Albanian
3. Amharic
4. Arabic
5. Armenian
6. Azerbaijani
7. Basque
8. Belarusian
9. Bengali
10. Bihari
11. Bork, bork, bork!
12. Bosnian
13. Breton
14. Bulgarian
15. Cambodian
16. Catalan
17. Chinese (Simplified)
18. Chinese (Traditional)
19. Corsican
20. Croatian
21. Czech
22. Danish
23. Dutch
24. Elmer Fudd
25. English
26. Esperanto
27. Estonian
28. Faroese
29. Filipino
30. Finnish
31. French
32. Frisian
33. Galician
34. Georgian
35. German
36. Greek
37. Guarani
38. Gujarati
39. Hacker
40. Hausa
41. Hebrew
42. Hindi
43. Hungarian
44. Icelandic
45. Indonesian
46. Interlingua
47. Irish
48. Italian
49. Japanese
50. Javanese
51. Kannada
52. Kazakh
53. Kinyarwanda
54. Kirundi
55. Klingon
56. Korean
57. Kurdish
58. Kyrgyz
59. Laothian
60. Latin
61. Latvian
62. Lingala
63. Lithuanian
64. Macedonian
65. Malagasy
66. Malay
67. Malayalam
68. Maltese
69. Maori
70. Marathi
71. Moldavian
72. Mongolian
73. Montenegrin
74. Nepali
75. Norwegian
76. Norwegian (Nynorsk)
77. Occitan
78. Oriya
79. Oromo
80. Pashto
81. Persian
82. Pirate
83. Polish
84. Portuguese (Brazil)
85. Portuguese (Portugal)
86. Punjabi
87. Quechua
88. Romanian
89. Romansh
90. Russian
91. Scots Gaelic
92. Serbian
93. Serbo-Croatian
94. Sesotho
95. Shona
96. Sindhi
97. Sinhalese
98. Slovak
99. Slovenian
100. Somali
101. Spanish
102. Sundanese
103. Swahili
104. Swedish
105. Tajik
106. Tamil
107. Tatar
108. Telugu
109. Thai
110. Tigrinya
111. Tonga
112. Turkish
113. Turkmen
114. Twi
115. Uighur
116. Ukrainian
117. Urdu
118. Uzbek
119. Vietnamese
120. Welsh
121. Xhosa
122. Yiddish
123. Yoruba
124. Zulu

Weawy!

:) nmw

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Fri, 2009-May-29 by nmw.

Click Here to Go to Heaven

Who needs Google when the Pope will always steer you right? >> BBC Interview with  Rev. Frederico Lombardi (Vatican Radio) [4:30]

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Sun, 2009-May-10 by nmw.

Can You See Me?

If not, you must be ignoring me — today, it is no longer permissible for leaders to not be aware of what their followers are saying (see also Twitter Trends are Meaningless for a description of leaders who are ignorant).

Poor Man’s EMail or Rich Man’s Faux Pas?

Condescending attitudes aside, what about intellectual property? Companies that continue to claim ownership of ideas are living in the past — it really is as plain & simple as that. The world we live in is no longer one in which significant ideas can be hoarded… and anyways: who wants to hoard significant ideas? Certainly information about preventing and/or stopping disease or illness would not be something you would want to keep secret — or would it?

Web World 3

I am confident that people are actually once and for all beginning to catch on to the web — perhaps in part due to Obama’s victory (though perhaps the chicken-or-egg question is equally valid: did Obama win the Election because people had already become aware of the significance of the web?).

Secret Sauce is a Certain Loss

Organisations that pretend to work magic behind closed doors are OUT: They will not be tolerated. Look here, brother: Don’t you waste your time on me.

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Thu, 2009-May-7 by nmw.

Remember Television?

The thing that you sat in front of and stared at?

1 Good Thing about TV for Advertisers was: Pay Once, Reach Everyone (at least in theory)

At the Next09 Conference

there was an interesting panel discussion between representatives from LinkedIn.COM, Xigg.DE and StudiVZ.de

I asked the panel members

Would it make sense to have a Marketing-VZ, a Developers-VZ (and so on)?

One of the panelists responded: They’re ALL on OUR social website.

Heh,… So now we’re back to television?

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Fri, 2009-May-1 by nmw.

Do You Get IT?

IT is the web. Your network. You live in overlapping networks of communities. You may network with friends, you may network with partners, you may meet up with experts, you may go to parties, but you gotta net-work someone!

Do you know who you need to network with?

If not, then the first step you need to take is to find yourself. Or how about if you tell me: Do you suppose you can enter “please tell me what I should do” into Google and get a useful answer?

John Battelle, who wrote a best-selling book about Google

said yesterday that he found the answer to a question he had using something he calls Aardvark (apparently, this is a service in which you can enter your social contacts, and then the service will forward your question to all of these contacts — the community he ultimately connected with is actually @ wikihow.COM).

Personally, I would not sign up for a service to be spammed with questions this way

– but to each their own, I guess. I have used the wikihow.com community before — it is generally quite good, and as long as you understand that the quality of the information varies wildly, then it’s indeed a good place to find answers (with that added precautionary “grain of salt” ;)

What’s the Upshot?

The upshot is that link algorithms are now rapidly becoming less significant as the method for finding information (I have predicted this for a long time already, since links are not very reliable indicators of trustworthy information), and they’re now rapidly being replaced by networks — networks of expert and/or enthusiast communities.

How to Find the RIGHT Community

Ah, yes: Therein lies the rub! My answer is: Use the Wisdom of the Language — do you have a better idea?

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