Author Archives: David Collin

Recommended viewing

NetSquared it at it again: augmenting their project with new streams of communication. I recommend two things you can find at Net2: A vlog of Alexandra Samuel shot by Geek TVs Eddie Codel at NetSqured’s Northern Voice meeting in Vancouver, BC. A good explanation of what the opportunity is for nonprofits with new media. NetSquared’s Community Builder Britt Bravo (good ...

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Wanna used buggy whip?

A columnist for the Guardian likened today’s Windows PCs to the Model T ford of the 1920s. PCs brought computing to the masses just as the Model T brought motoring. But the whole state of current IT is a funky mix of stuff that falls far from a great communication system. Well, at least we may be out of the ...

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Jeez, another one

The news seems full of bits about the disruptive nature of new online technology this morning. From the NYTimes The second-generation Internet technologies — combined with earlier tools like the Web itself and e-mail — are drastically reducing the cost of communicating, finding things and distributing and receiving services online. That means a cost leveling that puts small companies on ...

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The dissolving of institutions?

Somewhere over the weekend I saw a comment (can’t find it now) that the new technologies of online media are dissolving the forces of our traditional institutions. That came to mind when reading an article on blogs and censorship in China this morning in the Washington Post. With as many as 16 million people in China writing blogs, the Internet ...

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