Stephen Baker, senior writer at BusinessWeek, was the featured guest last week at Interesting Café, one of our culture events at Clickable. Pulling themes from his new book, the Numerati, he shared how a powerful new endeavor — the mathematical modeling of humanity – is transforming every aspect of our lives.… Read the rest
Category Archives: Technology & Life
Dumping The TV Cable Box
I thought I embraced the future of television several years ago when we got our first TiVo. While that event was significant, it’s now clear our DVR was only a technological painkiller to make tolerable the broken state of television: scheduled screenings with heavy commercial interruption.… Read the rest
Wired’s Frank Rose On How The ’70s Punk Scene Foreshadowed Modern Internet Culture
I recently video interviewed Frank Rose, contributing editor at Wired, following a discussion he led at Clickable. Frank spent the past decade writing about the changes digital technology has wrought on media and entertainment. He started out covering the Lower Manhattan punk scene of the ’70s for The Village Voice, chronicling the emergence of Patti Smith, the Ramones, and Talking Heads.… Read the rest
Forrester Research Wave Report Evaluates Online Community Technology Platforms
As Peter Kim alludes, social media technologies and tactics are subordinate (by a long shot) to business relationship goals. That said, it’s reaffirming to see that Forrester Analyst Jeremiah Owyang‘s evaluation of online community technology platforms rated Telligent Systems as among the top two.… Read the rest
19 Top WordPress Plugins
[See update to this post here.]
Several people asked me recently for suggestions on starting a blog — particularly core software and functionality requirements. I believe WordPress is the best. A major reason is that it has the largest selection of top plugins to easily enable almost any functionality, thanks to its thriving open-source development community.