Trust Agents Change the Game

I just finished reading Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. It’s a terrific book, and for many people it will end up being essential. While the book looks at how to use the web to build business, it is not a tech book – it is actually one of the best business books […]

twitter and the blog

There’s been a bit going on in terms of our communication strategy recently, and I thought it might be worth giving a quick update on what’s happening. As a bonus, I’ll frame it by talking about how it fits with the idea of aggregate, filter & connect. Our objective in writing this blog is to […]

filtering when you’re small

In a strange confluence of events, yesterday I: wrote a post about filtering and connecting when you’re a small enterprise; then Clay Shirky wrote about almost exactly the same subject in a post on algorithmic authority; then I ended up talking about the same topic with Paul Moynagh from the innovation consulting group Tough Problem. […]

implementation

I just saw this on Merlin Mann’s twitter feed: The guy who worries people will “steal” his idea might better ponder why nobody “steals” his implementation. As I keep saying – ideas are cheap, and implementations are valuable. We need to find better ways to cycle through ideas rapidly. This reminds me of a post […]

Henry Chesbrough on business models

Stefan Lindegaard has a post with links to a lot of good innovation related material, including an interview with Henry Chesbrough. The Chesbrough interview is terrific. He is best known for his research on open innovation, but a central part of that has been his work on business model innovation, which is the focus of […]

more on open education

Seb Schmoller has written a post discussing a call to action for creating the university of the future. It came out of a meeting held last month on the topic and it has five key points including: We must enable a culture of sharing. Recognizing that the sharing and reuse of scholarly work is a […]

open education

Here are the slides + audio from a talk that I gave this morning as part of UQ Teaching and Learning Week. It was for a panel discussion on what it means to be open in the context of higher education. It runs for just over 13 minutes. Press the green button in the middle […]

the future is in filtering

Yesterday we had evidence of the importance of connecting, and today we’ve got some for filtering. Dominic Basulto points to a great graphic commissioned by Wired magazine and made by Density Design on his terrific Endless Innovation blog. Here’s the small unreadable version: And you can see the full version here. The map is based […]

splitting and lumping

It’s hard for birders to see albatrosses. You have to a book a boat trip, they take all day (or longer!), and there are long periods of boredom punctuated by frenzied excitement when you run across birds – which you really hope you don’t miss seeing! And even if you’re not prone to seasickness, inevitably […]

news business model summary

I just made a new page with links to some of the posts we’ve had here that people have seemed to like. It’s there for people that are new to the blog to get a feel for some of the topics that we cover here, but also as a pointer to some of the more […]

business models summary

With all this recent talk of business models, it is probably useful to clarify what I mean by it – business model is yet another phrase that ends up meaning different things to everyone. I use the Henry Chesbrough definition, which splits the business model into six key issues (the summary is from quickmba.com): Value […]

aggregate, filter and connect

In response to my last post, my friend Ken Katkin said “Reading your essay make me glad that: (1) I traded in the music biz for academia when I did; and (2) I have tenure!” The only problem is that the more I’ve thought about it, the more uneasy I’ve become. I keep saying that […]