Filtering With Your Network

In yesterday’s post on Personal Aggregate, Filter & Connect Strategies, I didn’t have room for one key point: one of the key filters to use is your network. When he was in Brisbane last month, George Siemans gave a talk with an example that illustrated this perfectly. For the past couple of years, he has […]

Personal Aggregate, Filter & Connect Strategies

A while back my PhD student Sam and I were talking, and he asked me about my RSS feed. His question was something along the lines of ‘what blogs would I have to read if I wanted to be able to make the connections that you do on your blog?’ As we talked, I realised […]

What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis

The question of how to best adapt to the changes brought about by the internet is of key importance to all organisations that are in information-based industries. According to Jeff Jarvis in What Would Google Do?, the answer is fairly simple: do what Google would. Here is a video in which he outlines the argument […]

Changing the Game for News

A lot of people have been talking recently about a Harris Poll that shows that 77% of people in the US say that they won’t pay for online news. Specifically, this is the question they were asked: How much, if anything, would you be willing to pay per month to read a daily newspaper’s online […]

Darwin on Twitter

Last week I talked about 19th century communication networks, Charles Darwin, and how we have had more information coming at us than we’ve known what to do with for a long time. It seems like it is a problem caused by the internet, but the roots are much deeper. I’ve also been saying for some […]

Amazon’s Business Model Innovation

I thought I’d experiment with a video blog entry. I’ve got no editing software here, so everything was straight to tape. Well, straight to bits. Anyway, if it seems to work ok I’ll scale it up! It runs for five minutes. Amazon & Business Model Design from Tim Kastelle on Vimeo. To summarise my main […]

Know How You Add Value

A fundamental business problem right now is caused by the rapidly decreasing costs of storing and sharing data. The combination of these price drops with the increasing ease of sharing digital information has disrupted several industries – music, journalism, and book publishing among them. So everyone with a business model based on information being scarce […]

Craft or Scale? An Innovation Dilemma

In December of 1992, there were 50 websites on the internet. A year later, when they started building Yahoo, we had jumped to 623. So if you were going to build a search engine, what would be the best way to index things? Actually, at the time there weren’t any search ‘engines’ – we’d go […]

What I’ve Discovered About Twitter

I first started thinking about using twitter during a very loosely organised but wildly interesting talk from Phil Long (@RadHertz) nearly two years ago now. In the course of a one hour talk that wasn’t called ‘Cool Stuff I’m Excited About’ but should have been, Phil told us about TED talks – showing us the […]

The Problem with Measuring Innovation

The problem with measuring innovation is that you can’t measure innovation. This makes it a difficult thing to manage. Now obviously, organisations figure out ways to measure how innovative they are – but they usually doing it by finding metrics that approximate some part of the innovation process. The fact that our metrics are all […]

How to Deal with Complexity

Is google making us stupid? No. We keep hearing the argument that relying on technology makes us less smart somehow. Plato was probably the first person to make this argument. His target? Writing – his argument was: So, too, with written words: you might think they spoke as though they made sense, but if you […]

news business model summary

The purpose of this particular post is to pull together links to all of the posts that I’ve done on the topic of new business models for journalism so that they are a bit easier to find. This is an important issue for news, but it illustrates a broader point. The key to adapting to […]