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Erik Qualman’s socialmedia revolution video has been updated. He starts by asking: “Is social media a fad? Or the biggest shift since the industrial revolution?”. While the stats provided are interesting, his questions mistake the effect for the cause. It’s like asking, 150 years ago, “is the railway a fad? Or the biggest shift since [...]

One of the best descriptions of facebook that I’ve seen (on a blog comment somewhere) was: CIA+McDonald’s=Facebook. This formula addresses the secret and intrusive aspect of Facebook…and draws attention to broad appeal and exceptional ease of use/access. Google should be worried (I address the challenge briefly in this post a few months ago: LMS vs. [...]

Video games are a huge (and growing) business, eclipsing movies in overall revenue. By nature, games require more engagement and activity from players than a movie. To date, that interaction has been reduced largely to hand-held controllers. Wii changed that somewhat, but the controller is still the central element in interacting with the system. What [...]

You’d think that for-profit education’s effort to reach out to help the homeless would be a good thing. And you’d be wrong. Consider this article: Benson Rollins wants a college degree. The unemployed high school dropout who attends Alcoholics Anonymous and has been homeless for 10 months is being courted by the University of Phoenix. [...]

The last decade has seen an explosion in interest in networks. Some fields – such as sociology – have been grappling with network phenomenon for decades. Others, like mathematics, have been grappling with network attributes for centuries. But, starting in the late 1990′s, networks moved from being the exclusive domain of researchers to being a [...]