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This Blog Is Dead

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It was a technological and publishing breakthrough. Suddenly, the cost of publishing plummeted to zero and publishing to the world was almost as easy as it was to print up a document from your word processor. Suddenly, anyone with connectivity could have a thought and publish it in text for the world to see.

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Two Critical Points About The Future

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From publishing and philosophizing about the current and future state of the world, Tim's insights are always this blurry barrage of deep tech knowledge minced with philosophy about what the economy could be. This Next Economy is very similar to the We, Robots publishing platform that I started back in late 2012. mobile video.

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Apps Are Media

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But, when I started writing about this idea that content is media (around 2004), it was taken with a massive dose of skepticism. Their reasoning was quite simple: blogging is a powerful publishing platform, but most brands won't take to it, and the value may not be there in a world of GRPs and massive paid advertising channels.

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The Lance Armstrong Effect

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But, in the world of the real-time Web, mobile devices, Twitter , Facebook updates, YouTube videos and the like, what once was a brand's most powerful tool to communicate directly with consumers, suddenly becomes its worst nightmare. Much has been said about Lance Armstrong lately. Not much has been said by Lance Armstrong, himself.

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Predictions Revisited: Five Not-Too-Distant Technologies That Might Change Social Media

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Six years ago, I published the post “ Five Not-Too-Distant Technologies that Might Change Social Media.” The technology extracts monitors brain activity and can be used for wellness, consumer insights, research, and even controlling things (a major use-case for people lacking mobility).

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Journalism and Wikipedia – Wanky Balls

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We think you lot should now see this as a challenge to add horsepiss facts to Wikipedia pages before a prominent event is due to receive coverage, to see if you can get them published. The Independent is a British newspaper published by Alexander Lebedev ‘s Independent Print Limited. Send us the clippings, of course.

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The information processing view of humanity

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« Keynote: building the networked professional firm | Main | Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application » The information processing view of humanity. October 2004 (1). September 2004 (2). May 2004 (2). February 2004 (1).

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