Archives for the 'Culture' Category

The End of the Information Age? [HD BizBlog 1.2]

Joe Andrieu wrote an interesting post recently about how the end of the Information Age seems to be upon us. What effect has the Information Age had on our everyday lives? Well, he describes it like this:
…the Information Age has radically changed the modern lifestyle. Computers and networks and telecommunications have profoundly disrupted and re-invented [...]

5 October 2007 | Blog, Cluetrain, Community, Culture, Work 2.0, networking | No Comments

An Interview with My Favorite Futurist [HD BizBlog 1.2]

I found this at the Washington Post.com. It needs no commentary, but it begs a discussion:
The Post-9/11 Era Has Caught Up With William Gibson’s Vision
By Joel Garreau
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Southwest Washington is an antique vision of the future. It’s mid-century’s idea of “progress,” a never-to-be-repeated experiment in bulldozing shabby if genuine neighborhoods [...]

8 September 2007 | Culture, Just fun, New Media | No Comments

The Rules of Marketing are Changing [HD BizBlog 1.2]

According to Steve Rubel in a recent AdAge column:
In the near future, every online marketing program will start by asking how to engage a community in a way that first meets its goals, not the marketer’s. During the Paley Center summit I attended earlier this month in Silicon Valley, Vint Cerf, one [...]

8 August 2007 | Community, Culture, New Media, Web 2.0 | No Comments

The Importance of Trust in the Web 2.0 Economy [HD BizBlog 1.2]

After posting my “audition” at Slacker Manager yesterday, I had an interesting conversation with Dave Seah about the concept of trust and how it underscores every part of the marketplace.
Seah’s first comment addressed the ideas of loyalty and culture:
Trust has always been the currency of the world…it’s what underlies actual money, and it’s what [...]

24 July 2007 | Cluetrain, Community, Culture, Trust, Web 2.0 | No Comments