Purple Pointr

The future of facebook could be Like and OK

As for future of facebook, its Like button is an ultimate reductionist approach to meaning. Google's +1 has the same limitation. They are binary, yes or no.

So often I see these used as acknowledgement, meaning "saw your comment", that I intentcast an added neutral button like OK. For Google that would be +0.


- Posted using BlogPress for iPad without the safety net of a rich-text editor

The we among us

 

A meme
to meditate about
what it means
to be in a tribe,
to lead, to follow, or
to get out of the way.

The 2012 Wikipedia blackout - subverted

 

On 2012-01-18, Wikipedia looked like this on a modern Firefox browser.  Learn more.

With an obsolete browser like Internet Explorer 6, the page looked like this:

 

Via Twitter, thank you

 

Mark Jensen @marks 20m

Okay, no more Wikipedia-jokes today. Disable JavaScript, go to any article you want, wait for it to go black, OHNOITDI'N'T. You're welcome.

Tim @tim_harrap 1h

@CoCreatr if you put an 'm' after en. You can access Wikipedia! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese #sopa

Poynter @Poynter 52m

Google, Wikipedia, WordPress, Craigslist & others black out their sites today in protest: journ.us/yBgnJr "Internet goes on strike"

TechRadar @techradar 2h

Here's what our @garymarshall thinks of the Wikipedia blackout - nice idea, but it won't work techradar.com/news/internet/…

 

Jake Adelstein @jakeadelstein 4h

The black-out of Wikipedia illustrates the Big Yellow Taxi Principle: "You don't know what you got till it's gone" Sing Joni, sing!

 

Pete Cashmore @mashable 4h

Wikipedia Goes Black in Protest of SOPA - on.mash.to/wKYHEU

zerohedge @zerohedge 8h

Wikipedia has gone black bit.ly/cW8MCg

 

Hildy Gottlieb @HildyGottlieb 9h

@tomwatson Truth appears to be more like "When Wikipedia goes black, it doesn't really..." is.gd/34jSLy

 

Michael Josefowicz @toughLoveforx 17 Jan

Wikipedia will black out English language version Wednesday to protest to protest anti-piracy legislation ilnk.me/d03a rdr @dcarli

The Next Edge - everyone is a beginner

 

Current personal learning and research focuses to find models for what the next edge in tools to work together could be. Trial and error suggests: We are beginners all over. Many initiatives are active and successful in bringing people together, yet there may be a next edge in the very real need for meta-networking, a diplomacy and a discipline like the emergent occupy sense-making. We are manifesting the foresight of Net Gain, the 1997 subversive book by John Hagel,  III and Arthur G. Armstrong. With our improving toolset, we are beginning on a large scale to connect the connectors and their networks, help them share workable practice, to get their shift done.

Might as well blog

Have you been strolling and chatting a little too long on the digital market square? Did it feel like oversharing? As on twitter, facebook, or even one of the newest beta apps for curating, that invite to share and say why, such as scoop.it (thanks, Jan and Robin)  or for sharing beautiful bling better, such as pinterest (thanks, Seb and Jan). A rush of beginner's experience brought me back to reading blogs and blogging. Here is why.