True story: a friend told me how she invested a large amount of money in order to advertise her product on a fairly central website. The campaign bombed and my friend queried the veracity of the site owner’s claim that his site is a popular place of convergence: “you cannot tell me that your site [...]
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Making your own bed: are there limits to professional responsibility?
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Narratives, TheoriesTags: 1984, Animal Farm, charge my per exposure, charge per click-through, charge per per conversion, choice-criteria, Ease of use, el-bizarro, Fair price, George Orwell, get a foot in the door, Harvard Business School, Healing power, High quality, James Hattefield, Kindle, Modularity, Narakesari Narayandas, New York’s Monroe College, Pittsburgh Pirates, The Lawyer’s Paradox, Trina Thompson
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The Rise of the Digital Natives
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: 000 Hour Rule, 10, born digital, culture of sharing, digital children, digital immigrant accent, Digital Immigrants, Digital Landscape, Digital Natives, e-Learning, Eric Hoofer, Gird Hotchkiss, Ian Jukes, information processing habits, Jeremiah Owing, Jinx Mile, John Palfrey, Malcolm Glad well, Marc Prensky, multi-tasking, multiple identities, online activism, Outliers, parallel processing, peer collaboration, pruning, random access, speaking digital as second language, Times Online, upwards pressure, Urs Gasser
Who are the digital children of 2009? e-Learning specialist Marc Prensky coined the term Digital Natives and used it in two major articles he published in 2001 (Part I , Part II, PDF.) Digital Natives, he says, “are used to receiving information really fast. They like to parallel process and multi-task. They prefer their graphics [...]
To Whom the Turnstile Spins?
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: Apple iTune, Aspen Institute, Coldplay, consumption-biased content, content Providers, Darren Libonati, digital coins, digital wallet, electronic turnstile, further spending, hyperactive traffic makers, impulse purchases, infobites, Las Vegas Events, Max Bialystock, micropayment, mobile accessibility, new e-business, News Corporation, occasional content seekers, online bit-by-bit communication, opinionator blog, premium publications, Rupert Murdoch, Sponsored turnstiles, The Business Dictionary Online, The Children of Darfur, The New Your Times, Time, turnstile spin, turnstile spinners, Vegas Sam Boyd Stadium, virtual money, Wall Street Journals, Walter Isaacson, WSJ
As you may have seen for yourselves, media’s ‘new e-business’ aspirations have caused quite a stir. I have ToingToing!ed about it here and The Financial Times Online offers a decent detailed assessment of the situation, both pieces are offered for free, I hasten to add. Advertising does not bring in the money anymore (did anyone [...]
The Insane and the Genius
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Narratives, TheoriesTags: Albert Einstein, archived content, Bruce Feirstein, Chris Anderson, Content seekers, Dow Jones, Feinstien’s maxim, Fortune Magazine, Fox Business Network, freeconomics, information web, Insanity, insanity vs. genius, James Bond, News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, searchable content, the 25 most powerful people in business, the free Web, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Wired magazine, WSJ content
A quote attributed to Albert Einstein argues that ‘insanity means doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results’. Scriptwriter Bruce Feirstein, who wrote some of the James Bond movie scripts, asserted further that the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Armed with such heavyweights-uttered quotes, we can [...]
Life at Fahrenheit 451
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: ALA, ALAhead to 2010, Amnesty International, And Tango Makes Three, book burning, Boris Pasternak, civil liberties, David Lean, Doctor Zhivago, dystopia, dystopian society, Equitable Access to Information, Fahrenheit 451, François Truffaut, freedom of expression, George Orwell, Guy Montag, Index on Censorship, intellectual bigotry, Intellectual Freedom, Ireland’s blasphemy law, irrepressible.info, Judy Blume, Julie Christie, National Coalition Against Censorship, NCAC, Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, Ray Bradbury, recorded knowledge, The American Library Association, Web Censorship all around the World, World Press Freedom Day
As a teenager, I literally stumbled upon François Truffaut‘s powerful interpretation of Ray Bradbury’s 1953 book Fahrenheit 451. I went to see the movie simply because it featured Julie Christie, the woman who invaded my pubescent dreams as a blonde Russian siren named Lara in David Lean‘s adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s epic Doctor Zhivago. On [...]
Pulitzer’s Digerate Media Relevance
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: Breaking News Photography, Breaking News Reporting, Commentary, Criticism, Editorial Cartooning, Editorial Writing, Explanatory Reporting, Gone with the Wind, Harper Lee, International Reporting, James Michener, John F. Kennedy, Joseph Pulitzer, Local Reporting, Margaret Mitchell, National Reporting, Nieman Journalism Lab, Oscar Hammerstein II, Paul Giblin, public-spirited press, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzers-for-Journalism, Richard Rodgers, Roy Harris, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the New York World, The Pulitzer Prizes, To Kill a Mockingbird, Toni Morrison, yellow journalism
American media supremo Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911) dedicated his life to the pursuit of excellence in writing and publishing. He was an uncompromising and committed journalist who sought to redefine journalism and turn it into a discipline, complete with its public goals, professional ambitions, value systems ethical considerations and criticism of itself, as well as of [...]
The Long Tail is Wagging Freeconomics
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: Alain Resnais, Bette Midler, Chris Anderson, Cross-subsidies, demand curve, Eric J. Johnson, freeconomics, Freemium, FT, Gift economy, Itzik Manger, Kurt Weill, Labour exchange, NYT, Robert Murdoch, Robin Parker, Surabaya Johnny, Techdirt.com, the Financial Times, The Long Tail, the New York Times, Wired magazine, Zero marginal cost, zero-cost products
In 2006, Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, came up with an article with a fascinating theory (later published in a book called The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More) that made some serious waves. Anderson argues that “economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively [...]
Sandboxing with Odysseus & the Googleators
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Narratives, TheoriesTags: Anatole Rapoport, applied digital security, benevolent hacking, CanSecWest, clipping service, daily communication payloads, defection / cooperation axis, Google Alert, Google Chrome Sandbox, Google Reader, information sandbox, iterative game, Louis Pasteur, malevolent hackers, Odysseus, Pwn2Own, Robert Axelrod, Russian folktale, sandbox, strategic solution, systemic challenge, the Odyssey, the Prisoner’s Dilemma, TIT-FOR-TA, Ulysses, Virgil, Xobni
There is something powerful and compelling in a good challenge. In principle, many complex challenges have simple solutions. There are three types of solutions to challenges, the first type of solution is the cunning, cerebral type – it is usually based on the premise that wisdom and experience will eventually trump power and authority.