... a beginner at something

Want better money? Join or coin, let's be open about it.

Jay, together with Venessa, Gabriel and Patrizia on Emergence Collective wrote,

We’re about to tell a story, or multiple stories of the future of money, of what could be.

But the story we tell will be emergent, our knowledge comes from the wisdom of the crowd. This is where you come in.

 

Money is was this promise

Lost: 5-Dollar Note, serial J04822471A, reward.

Flipboard brings it home: iPad geared for solo media consumption

Whee, what a precious birthday present! Thanks to my loved family members.

More than two weeks into the iPad experience I feel it is not the convenience many tout it to be. That may be entirely a function of my usage pattern, more interactive and sharing than merely consumptive, which the iPad seems to be geared for.  My main complaint is the iPad disappoints at some of the things its pocket-size sibling the iPhone 3GS does effortlessly - with the "same" iOS 3.2 - like play self-produced MP4 videos and sync Notes to Mail on the MacBook Pro.

Getting into the open innovation revolution

Do you like to figure out gadgets before you open a manual?

If so, then treat this book as a gadget. I mean, do not follow instructions like read from front-to-back. Just experiment. Use this book like you use your gadgets. Try a page 56 on it.

Scores of employees submit ideas and expect others to deliver.

Compliance & Ethics - a topic in Japan or Asia? Interview by Sibylle Ito (シビル伊藤)

For a while Sibylle Ito and I connected virtually on Twitter. In August we finally met, listening to speakers including @mqtodd "Excited to be speaking about Social Media at the Pink Cow Connections at @pinkcowshibuya in Tokyo this Tuesday night".  With virtual connection trust is real, though it may take longer to build. When you finally meet, "in real life" (as if by phone or twitter were somehow "unreal"), face recognition works and live energetic conversation boosts trust. So we co-created this interview. Enjoy.

Music shared, shopped, and snared: how 'bout remembering your divinity - uninvited

First time this lifetime that a powerful song (to me) found me through social networking. After more than 10 years. OK, I asked for it, and people sharing their art on-line certainly helped. Here's the thing: while embracing the music and the ease of paying for it gave me a powerful lift, technology let me down - crash. Really driving home why "upgrading" isn't. But that is already the middle of the story. It began on twitter. Chronicling habits that lead to surprising discovery and emotional experience.