How to build an amazing blog
Some members of the Wikinomics team spoke this morning about what makes a blog effective. Our friend Neil provides a case study in how to create an amazing contribution to the blogosphere. His site...
View ArticleNet Gen Management — keep them in the loop
Here is an interesting discussion about managing the Net Gen which has more relevance in difficult times. The Net Gen are smart and are scrutinizers…they pretty much can figure out what is going on...
View ArticleHelicopter Parents and Entrepreneurship
We’ve just made public a research study we conducted with Neil Howe about Helicopter Parents. Click here to download the hard copy. Here is an interesting study that proposes that children of...
View ArticleNew audio version of Wikinomics Playbook
This is kind of cool. Wikinomics fan Luke Grange has created an audio version of the Wikinomics and has posted it on the book tab of Wikinomics (be patient, it’s a huge file). I asked Luke about the...
View ArticleAre you Gen X?
Are you Gen X? Take the Quiz Jeff Gordinier, author of X Saves the World, which we’ve mentioned on the blog before, a couple of times, has an interesting way of testing whether one is, in fact, a...
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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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 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 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 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...
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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 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...
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...
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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,...
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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...
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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