Archive for the "Phenomenology" category

How has Twitter stayed #1 despite themselves?

And why it will stay there.
The simple answer is, network effect. Yes, I am stating the overly obvious answer that Twitter is surviving because of it’s network. But not just any network, the fact that Twitter, like the rest of the Web is a scale-free network, is saving it.
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Content Explosion and Re-Aggregation

There have been two huge enablers in my online publishing habits. FriendFeed and my BlackJack 2.

I’ve always had a variety of desktop *publishing tools* but my BlackJack has enabled me to create content on the go, and FriendFeed pulls all that content together. While Louis Gray is the real maven on FriendFeed and all […]

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How do you stay grounded?

I learned a long time ago that I am NEVER the target audience. As early adopters (if you’re a regular reader of this blog you’re probably an early adopter) it becomes easy to lose touch with reality. If you’re a fellow blogger then you live in a world filled with other bloggers and […]

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I’m a Grup, I finally fit in (kind of)

So while putting together an eBook campaign I’ve been working on for months now I came across an old article from 5 Blogs Before Lunch.
Dave points us to a New York Times article about Grups aka Yupsters aka Yindies.
This is an obituary for the generation gap. It is a story about 40-year-old men and women […]

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The Death of Wrist Watches and Voice Messages

This post is for all you trend spotters out there.
Wrist Watches: Why bother?
I was at my brothers bachelor party a few months back when I asked everyone that was around the poker table what time it was. Not a single person knew. Now my brother is 10 years younger than I am and I’m pretty […]

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On Phenomenology and Web 2.0

What is the big deal about New Media?  Why do people think that anyone cares enough about what they have to say that they start blogging?  If you don’t know, you are obviously not blogging.
On my new business cards (when they get done) my title will say Phenomenologist (it was that or Prototypical Nonconformist).  Phenomenology […]

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