Over the next 13 months, we’re going to have to endure yet another campaign season here in the States. Two primaries and then a long, drawn out general election. One way to deflect these attacks is through defensive SEO. It helps suppress concerted attacks by depressing negative search results while increasing positive ones. And I think it will be vital. Hopefully, others will listen.
Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, jumps all over the place for the entirety, almost in a “miscellaneous” way, author David Weinberger brings his point together nicely in the end. Weinberger starts his discussion off with a topic that is all around us; information and how it is sorted.
Well Andrew Keen just keeps bumping up against my amateur ass. I hear him on NPR, read about him on blogs and on and on. I am kind of a little over his diatribe but I found this discussion between him and Weinberger of the Wall Street Journal.
I think it is one of the best debates thus far between Keen and anyone else. I think that Weinberger gives him a good run for his money. The debate about what the web and specifically web 2.0 means for the “old” economy has been going on since the rise of silicon valley in the 90’s. Telephone companies have cried, music has cried, advertising is crying, mass media is crying. So interesting that organizations are so scared of change. Why? Why do people not see change as something that is part of the dynamic existence of humanity. It is what makes it happen, it is what makes it fun.
Along that line check out this video from the Ted Conference by Tony Robins. I think that it is this inspiration, this emotion that has driven the internet for the past 20 years and is what frightens so much of the established communication economy. It doesn’t want emotion - it can’t control it - it doesn’t want amateurs definining the conversation - it can’t control it. This is the issue of today, this is the democracy of today. It is what makes me excited.
1 Comment » Posted on July 29th, 2007 by Saul Wainwright
I read the Cluetrain Manifesto when it came out and have been a fan of David Weinberger ever since. David’s new book, Everything is Miscellaneous, explores an issue that is near and dear to my heart: the semantic web. My favorite podcast, Radio Open Source, had a show about the semantic web feature David Weinberger on emergent libraries, the semantic web, folksonomy, the wisdom of crowds, and the new nature of categorizing, finding, searching, reading, researching, and defining, based on the concept of “bottom up” categorization in the form of foksonomic tagging and attention data rather than “top down” taxonomic strict categorization by experts-as-gatekeepers. Read more…
No Comments » Posted on July 23rd, 2007 by Abraham Harrison
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