Follow the money

Even now, it knows.

I believe that the financial and economic crisis is accelerating the change from the industrial to the information society. The magnitude of the change is likely to be on par with or greater than the transition from agricultural to industrial society (I am intentionally saying “society” instead of “economy” because the change affects all parts of how we live). This is scary if you are stuck in the old and exciting if you are helping invent the new.

Albert Wenger's Continuations.

Blog will eat itself Two

It's the inexorable meme: blog eating itself.

So while the new media elite is throwing stones at the old media guard, taunting them with how great their blog audiences are and celebrating the imminent downfall of print media, they should stop to consider the glass house they might be living in. The technological disruption of media doesn’t end with Web 2.0, blogs, and new media. The train keeps moving. There’s always something else, and the pace of change is accelerating. It’s going to require adaptation not just from traditional media but from anyone who considers themself a publisher.

From Max Gladwell.

Ok so change is gonna come...

In times of change the learners will inherit the earth, while the knowers will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer

Seemed appropriate today. More on "the talk" tomorrow.

I-google changed!

"Google insists that its revised iGoogle personalized home page generates better 'happiness metrics' than the old design, but a vocal group of users isn't happy about the changes." The recent change introduces what Google refers to as "canvas view," which the Official Google Blog claims "... makes iGoogle a more useful homepage and a better platform for developers."

From Slashdot.


More to the point, I-google simply doesn't load any more: just defaults to gmail. It is slower, has some kind of useless left hand bar - and we were never asked about it. People tell me that Yahoo has done something similar. Now I can't even access my own homepage. Bad.