Wikipedia…does tenacity matter more than insight?
Like most social media communities, most people are users of Wikipedia rather than contributors. Although it is the “encyclopedia that anyone can edit,” most people don’t. I can speak from experience...
View ArticleTechnology as a Behavior Magnifier
I’m appearing on a panel next month to discuss the positive and negative effects of technology on young people. Overall, we at the Wikinomics team think the overall effect is positive. See the Grown Up...
View ArticleIs a Monty Python/Star Trek mash-up art? Let’s let YouTube decide.
I suppose Andy Warhol would increase the clockspeed on his theory of fame. Certainly with today’s entertainment choices, 15 minutes is a tad optimistic, even luxurious. We’ve seen some compelling...
View ArticleGrey Flannel Suit vs. the Hawaiian Shirt
Mark Evans wrote an interesting blog post on Tuesday entitled Nine Things not to Do on Twitter which featured self-promotion, providing boring/inane personal details, and repeating tweets several times...
View ArticleSabermetrics as Mass Collaborators
Last week, my colleague Naumi Haque posted about basketball stats and featured the amazing Michael Lewis article about Shane Battier. There was another good article today about how technology can...
View ArticleCatcher in the Rye doesn’t translate for the Net Gen
We’ve already seen a twitter version “Dad dead. Mom slut. Uncle sux. Talking emo 2 self: 2B? Not? Revenge? GF all wet. Her dad a rat” and Facebook version of Hamlet. The New York Times posted an...
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When Mass Collaboration is Smarter than April Fool’s Day
The Onion AV Club did a nice write-up on how ThinkGeek.com’s April Fool’s joke backfired in a commercially pleasant way. They jokingly posted an advertisement for a sleeping bag based on a Star Wars...
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Community Panel at the 2.0 Conference
I was delighted to moderate a panel on “building effective communities at last week’s 2.0 meeting in Toronto. Joining me on stage were Webby-winning blogger Neil Pasricha of 1000awesomethings.com,...
View ArticleGovLoop, the “Facebook for Feds,” Reaches 10,000 Users in Less Than a Year
We are pleased that our colleague Steve Ressler let us know that Govloop has passed the 10,000 user mark. We’re proud to have identified Steve as a great leader of social media within the public...
View ArticleIt’s not you…it’s twitter
I’ve been absent from the Wikinomics blog lately, and apologize. Like many bloggers, I’ve spent most of my time on twitter. It’s more immediate and the forced brevity encourages volume. It forces some...
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Online comments and the world’s smallest violin
Mr. Pink, Steve Buscemi’s character in Reservoir Dogs has many memorable lines, not all of which would make it by our stringent blog manager. In the opening scene, he explains to the other gangsters...
View ArticleAerosmith makes more money on Guitar Hero game than any individual album.
We’ve posted before about Guitar Hero; see here, here and here. Our friend Mathew Ingram pointed out this article that describes how Guitar Hero releases are a bright light in an otherwise dismal music...
View ArticleNet Gen on campus: where a grade is the prof’s opening position
There is an interesting article today in the New York Times about student expectations and grade inflation. Basically, students expect an “A” if they’ve done their best, after all, “they always get...
View ArticleOpen Source Venture Capital
Mark Cuban, who we’ve talked about before (see here, here, and here) has announced an open source funding model. If you want the nutty Internet billionaire (he’s the one that is still a billionaire) to...
View ArticleThe 25 Random Things Meme
Look, I’ve never been the one to get involved in stuff like this. You can search your inboxes for a long time without finding any sort of chain letter I’ve sent. I don’t ask people to send business...
View ArticleUnpaid internships? Luxury!
As an employer, I’ve never been a fan of unpaid interships. In my business (research/think tank) a mediocre employee detracts value, so it only makes sense to bring people aboard that can produce at a...
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Cool Visual of the Obama Inauguration
Thanks to our friend Mathew Ingram for pointing this out. Posted on GigaPan – it is a panaromic shot made up of more than 200 separate images. You can zoom right in and see individuals in the crowd...
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Captain C.B. Sullenberger
My colleague Alan nicely captured the citizen reporting that happened around the Miracle on the Hudson. The aftermath makes a nice Wikinomics story as well. Captain C.B. Sullenberger He’s a star on...
View ArticleWhen the success of the guild trumps the TPS
When the success of the guild trumps the TPS report I came across an interesting article (props to Daniel Debow of Rypple) that goes against some of our research that asserts that gamers (specifically...
View ArticleWikinomics helps with your New Year’s Resolutions
Well, we’re one week into 2009, are you still flossing daily? Here at the Wikinomics blog, we can give you some help when it comes to succeeding with some of the more popular resolutions, at least from...
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