Social media
Governments should manage tennis clubs (?)
It’s funny seeing corporations and old media types busy trying to figure out this new thing called ‘communities’, much like they struggled 15 years ago to fathom the internet.
Even though the system of the ‘network’ existed previously - such as telephone networks, postal networks and even townships, where roads and paths connect one house to […]
The world of wikis
You know how I mentioned we’ve got lots of cool things brewing at Treet TV, well the latest and greatest is our wiki. It’s been going for a few weeks now but I am only just starting to get the hang of it and it’s fantastic!
Why have all those documents sitting on shared drives, latent, […]
Wisdom of crowds in a virtual shoot
The dynamics of social enterprise to create online encyclopedias, open source software and alternate reality games has proven itself as an effective model for creativity as well as engagement.
However, we haven’t really witnessed this kind of remote collaboration when it comes to producing TV shows apart from the webcam social TV model - which is […]
Somewhere in the not too distant future
On SLCN.TV we have a quiz show called The 2nd Question. One segment features a notable quote each week. Today it featured Ray Kurzweil:
I’m an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
After […]
Skating on frozen moments in time
Today I was watching a wonderful presentation by Mark Pesce, a futurist and thinker who I greatly admire and I am lucky to know quite well.
His presentation titled “Those Whacky Kids” talks about the phenomenon of co-presence (a term that emerged out of research in Japan by Mimi Ito that analyzes mobile phone behaviour) where […]