November 2008
16 posts
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Rethinking physical text
Physical text is dead (as in static). Information is alive. It’s dynamic. The previous post is a piece I wrote as guest columnist for Klue. Information is constantly evolving. What bugs me about physical text is that it is one dimensional. And printing URL’s on paper doesnt work either. In most cases it is too long and looks like gibberish to be of any use to someone trying to type it into...
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5 Internet Myths (because, like you know, everyone...
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#1 – The Net is a free-space.
Hah, you’re most probably a politico blogger. Government has more control over the net than they care to understand themselves. Every little cool app that allows you to see how popular you are amongst your circle of virtual friends, exists thanks to Government legislation (ok, largely the U.S. Government, but they all the same la) to track data, its origins and its destination. The Net was built...
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#2 – We are too smart, they can’t censor the Net,...
It’s simply a question of infrastructure. The Malaysian Internet Exchange (MyIX) was built on the pretext of saving the country huge amounts of money being wasted on local traffic being routed via international exchanges. Read it another way: the government doesn’t have full control over local ISPs. Many of the privately owned ISPs establish direct connections to foreign ISPs. MyIX routes all...
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#3 – The Matrix is just a movie.
The sum of all our knowledge created and shared everyday is feeding and building the Machine. See how the Machine is Us/ing Us.
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#4 – Alternative media will kill mainstream media.
The only thing that will kill mainstream media is mainstream media itself, due to ignorance on information theory (that is, how people consume information today). And alternative media won’t deliver on its promise until we begin to understand that the internet really isn’t an alternative at all. It exists as an independent platform, requiring a unique model to thrive. Information snacking....
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#5 – The Internet will save us from all forms of...
That was the promise of the internet. The cyberpunks had a mantra: On the information highway, borders are just speed bumps. But some very powerful people would like to see it broken. Ultimately, the internet may divide us more than geographical borders do currently.
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GEW'08 Presentation File →
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Talk at GEW '08
Ill be speaking tomorrow at this event, organised by the British Council. Its billed as Happy Hours with Creative Entrepreneurs: Secrets of their Success, but I have no secrets to share ;)
I will instead be focusing more on social entrepreunership.
details here.
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hyper-capitalism
Bill Gates refers to it as creative capitalism. C.K. Prahalad calls it BOP Markets (Bottom of the Pyramid).
4 billion people live on less than $2 per day. The thinking is simply that creating products that serve the poorest people (as opposed to ignoring them since the easiest assumption is that they have no purchasing power) would over time elevate them to middle-class, and with that all the...
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