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Re: Web Discussions: Leaving The Instigator Out

david cushman — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:33:39 -0000

Fred, we have an issue in so much as the likes of friendfeed aren't only distributing the conversation, they are disrupting it.
But, they are adding value by making more of our metadata available to more people - and it's this intersection that allows communities of purpose to self-form on an adhoc basis. The more we can pull this out of silos and make (as you point out) the instigator the aggregator, the more we'll step towards making us the url.

Nutshell: The reason we go online is to connect with other humans. The reason we share our metadata is to make that process easier. Our metadata asserts who we are. The more widely it is shared the more we can connect with others who share our immediate purpose.

Re: The Power Of Google Juice

david cushman — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:59:32 -0000

If it ain't already been said, the url is an irrelevance - the links are way more important. To move is to disrupt the network of trust you've created and that's a hugely complex web. Not much fun trying to restore all the connections either. I started with a blogspot address precisely because I figured google would look favourably on its own. Now I dare not change it - and clearly not because anyone types the address into the browser.
See you next week at http://widgetwebexpo.com
best dc

Re: You Can't Regulate Just One Industry And Leave The Other Alone

david cushman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:22:21 -0000

It's almost as if no one had ever coined the phrase 'the because effect'...

If I was in a band I might even consider sueing the record labels for this extraordinary intervention in social-graph driven marketing.

expanded on this here: http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2008/07/shound...

Re: The Death Trap

david cushman — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:19:53 -0000

Fred, you're right. we're always talking about the death of this or the death of that. I think the evolutionary nature of all things networked means we should focus more on life. I blogged as much one. Got called a hippy for my trouble ;-)
http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2008/04/death-...

Re: I Guess I'm Doing Something Wrong

david cushman — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:50:35 -0000

struck me as insanely large numbers too Fred. Even if you added affiliate deals or even paid reviews (let's hope not!) the gap feels a huge one to fill.
I took part in the survey. Wonder if there was some over estimation on the part of bloggers?
Would love to meet one who is making that kind of cash from affiliate deals and ads alone.

Re: http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/08/what-do-you-use.html

david cushman — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:48:37 -0000

thanks all for the thinking juice!

Re: MicroPR: A Way To Connect Journalists, Analysts, And Bloggers

david cushman — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:29:10 -0000

duly signed up for!

Re: Ford tries the ultimate social media experiment

david cushman — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:56:01 -0000

The ultimate social media experiment would change the products and the company - not simply seek to use people as a channel to sell what you've already decided they want.
Here's hoping Ford did the former too...

Re: My Beef with the NYC Taxicab Touchscreens

david cushman — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:52:41 -0000

I was in NYC briefly last month. I liked the touch screen sat nav. What blew me away is that I get sat nav as a passenger - and the driver doesn't?

Re: My Beef with the NYC Taxicab Touchscreens

david cushman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:53:59 -0000

Hi Michael! hadn't thought about that touchscreen superbug transfer mechanism. Perhaps a sanitiser courtesy wipe, like an airplane toilet, is in order?;D

I like that I get to see where I am going. Would like the driver to be afforded the same luxury...

Re: have tivo and amazon unearthed the holy grail of interactive tv?

david cushman — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:48:32 -0000

that is interesting. I'm trying to imagine a world in which all tv is consumed on demand. I guess this is a replacement for advertising? Is there another stage in which you get to download provided you watch an advert (and use some clever profile and social stuff to make sure that ad is one you will value)?

Re: Tribes

david cushman — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:40:28 -0000

Cool. I would say send it to me. But I've heard it all before. Via audible.com :-)

Re: post-messaging: value creation versus value subtraction

david cushman — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:15:19 -0000

Nice post dude. exploit is another word that needs damping out!

Re: Interdependence, Chomsky and the crowbar.

david cushman — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:50:12 -0000

Interesting final line mate. Brands that have a go at this will end up not needing to shout :-)

Re: Cognitive Surplus By Clay Shirky (speaking At Web2expo)

david cushman — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:56:25 -0000

nice new design dude. thanks for this video, will add it to my vodpod.
Just read that Dodgeball was the creation of two of Clay's students. No suprise really!

Re: Mobile Advertising Report

david cushman — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:23:03 -0000

dude, cheers! Sorted your next step on mastering the universe yet?

Re: Accidental Speaking Slot Announcement

david cushman — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:07:46 -0000

Thanks jmac, send my best to all there, particularly antonio itsmy who I had hoped to catch up with.
Do me a favour and tell the attendees where they can read the notes and see the slides? Cheers

Re: Its Time For A Re-think

david cushman — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:04:08 -0000

Check out the slidedeck I'm about to add to the blog. You might find it relevant.

Re: Friendfeed Makes The Obvious Move

david cushman — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:37:20 -0000

yeah but have they done it for the N95 yet?

Re: ‘huge Demand’ Forces O2 To Pull Plug On Iphone 3g Pre-orders

david cushman — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:06:42 -0000

I'm told there are lashings of 3G iphones going to be available. There were limited numbers for the online pre-order. But there are plenty in warehouses! I intend to sign away my soul this coming weekend.

Re: Ogilvy Digital Innovation Lab Launch

david cushman — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:41:14 -0000

sounds like a bucket of fun. The play's the thing!

Re: Linkedin Love Back In Action

david cushman — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:57:18 -0000

Lego? Legend

Re: The Startup Exchange

david cushman — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:57:19 -0000

VC will love it. Crowd-sourcing should deliver a <10% margin of error. Effectively you the punter delivers the odds on success for each start-up. VC then makes punt based on crowd wisdom.
And I'll place a bet. It'll work.

Re: Change Is The Enemy Of The Competant

david cushman — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:42:23 -0000

Since growler was generous enough to share his thoughts I ought to repay I suppose. Growler the internal workshops were the tip of an iceberg. I never aim to lead horses to water. Instead I provide quality water that horses who choose to can drink at. Those attending got a great deal from them and took that with them into the business i have that in writing from many people ! The rest of the iceberg was included in my publicly available job description which I always fulfilled without complaint from any of my emap or bauer bosses- right to the top.

Re: Phase 1 Completed

david cushman — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:42:02 -0000

Good luck with phase two. I'll be pointing em in!

Re: Stevie Ray Vaughan

david cushman — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:08:24 -0000

Hey JMac, loved Stevie RV - discovered him through Let's Dance and gutted when he died before the tour in 83. Earl Slick was cool but...

Re: Communities of Purpose

david cushman — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:23:21 -0000

Thanks for sharing this. Beat DC

Re: Social media more popular than ever

david cushman — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:44:41 -0000

Time to rebrand hitwise? Longtailwise

Re: Corporate communications has radically changed

david cushman — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:56:40 -0000

Trust me. Big companies ARE getting it. The lack of corporate accounts doesn't tell even half the story. Big companies ARE getting it because they are all made up of human, social, beings. Node by node, group by group. It's up to us to enable and support them.

Re: Innovation and Networks of Influence

david cushman — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:53:02 -0000

Dude you link to my 'usual discussions' of what influence is as if context isn't included in my thinking. Mark and I share much common ground. Maybe take a look at a little more of my work?

Re: It’s been a long - and wet - weekend

david cushman — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:38:32 -0000

Thanks for the mention dude. You'll soon be rocketing up those rankings (technorati is actiing odd again today btw, so best ignore it... lesson in life there perhaps?)
In the meantime you've reminded me, the rss feed from your blog doesn't display in my 'recommended blogs' feeds (part of blogger in draft).
Should function just off the url. Will give it another try. Isyour feed functioning elsewhere?

Re: It’s been a long - and wet - weekend

david cushman — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:41:13 -0000

update: sorted. The more often you post, the more often you'll be at the top of that list!

Re: The death of blogging is nowhere near….

david cushman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:35:30 -0000

it's not about the tools. it's about what we are doing with them. The genie is out of the bottle.
Clay nails it: (via Hugh)

"forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this -- the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast."

Re: Tolstoy vs Twitter?

david cushman — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:21:46 -0000

Dude, you have to check out my buddy Michael Leis on microblogging as screenplay writing:

http://www.newmediabuzz.com/the_new_media_buzz_...

Re: Is your online identity in your control?

david cushman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:28:49 -0000

Check out TigerTwoTiger, they are trying to offer online reputation management for businesses.
http://www.tigertwotiger.co.uk/

But they aren't doing it from a perspective of control, they are doing it in the spirit of engagement. I think that's the key.

I am part of a community therefore I am - and this varies from community to community.

Whose identity is it anyway?

Re: A great post, and a brilliant lecture…

david cushman — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:43:02 -0000

Thanks for the love Dan.

Re: Interesting questions for marketing

david cushman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:25:27 -0000

thanks dan. Will go sort that spilling mishtook rite away

Re: Is the new masterpiece just a moment in time?

david cushman — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:26:16 -0000

Maybe it's worth considering this from a fuzzy-edged/hard edged perspective.
Simplisticly, the snapshot is itself a finished article - an end to the journey. It's moved out of the networked beta world and in so doing becomes part of the 'finalised' world of production.
But there are static moments in any complex adaptive system (evolution). There are plateaus, periods of great stablilty, followed by outbursts of chaos. Perhaps your frozen moment is one of those plateaus?

Re: The three for three London meme

david cushman — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:34:01 -0000

work/play it ought to be the same :-)

Will join in soon. And even buy you a drink on the 31st

Re: A good plan these days is hard to find…

david cushman — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:01:47 -0000

Nice one Dan.
Remember this one?
http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2008/09/myspac...

and this one

http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2008/07/shound...

Re: ‘The Supermarket effect’, and how to minimise it…

david cushman — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:50:38 -0000

Nice Dan. As we always said, user-friendly is as user-friendly was. Ebay is a great example of that. People learn how to use something and one thing people really hate (though its really good for them) is unlearning.

My solution is the landroverowner route. Get the most active people on the site to be part of the development team.

If they are onside they'll have a very persuasive effect on the rest of your community. We are more influenced by other people than by anything else - after all.

Re: Why belief matters…

david cushman — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:48:15 -0000

I like to think of purpose as the Why of an organisation. We do the what (strategy) and the how (tactics) all the time. What we rarely push for is the Why. Why do we want to make a difference? why does what we do matter? As Mark puts it "Why" (are we getting out of bed in the morning).
That's what's behind the What, How, Why slides I shared for Brando-Digital. Mark's helping me on that right now :-)
Tell you more tomorrow in person .

Re: Stop grouping and griping - start thinking and doing

david cushman — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:40:07 -0000

dan. I think it's the adhoc nature of group forming network theory that is being revealed here. The way we can express our-right-now purpose is improving so we are more able to flit from group to group as our purposes change. We amplify that which we value and dampen out that which we don't. That's complex adaptive systems for you!
Communities aren't for life. Some may not even be for Christmas.
A merry one to you, btw. :-)

Re: Why it’s dangerous to compare print figures to website stats

david cushman — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:27:14 -0000

what the print figures never grasp are huge great lumpy valuable things such as: conversations generated, relationships fostered, content created, groups formed, action enabled and er... value created

Take a look at the content on the guardian's site, for example. For each item of 'printed' news, there may be 10 items of UGC created.

If you only calculate value in readership terms you're missing 90% of the value.

Re: The end of an era…

david cushman — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:24:39 -0000

welcome to the rest of the world dan :-) There's an awful lot of it

Re: The best webcam-based augmented reality application?

david cushman — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:11:01 -0000

That's neat. Yes augmented reality all the rage. With apps that can run thru the cam facing you on your mobile, then I think we go beyond 'that's neat'.. Like you say Dan - ubiquity.

Re: an anti-social experiment - meany: Just some links for you to browse: 1....

david cushman — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:18:36 -0000

Thanks for including FasterFuture in your list :-)

Re: Entertainment value chains and why Robbie loves mobile

david cushman — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:06:14 -0000

Hi Nic, thanks very much for the reference. I think you are right about music being just one example of the disintermediation the network brings.
Any form of media is defacto the middle layer, the mediator, and it has to understand it must find a new place to operate.
One question I think helps define the issue for us is :"What do you do when you don't own the user experience?"
I have some views on where that positions the mediators, more of which you'll find for example here:
http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-ow...

Re: 2008/04/25/rss-easy-button/

david cushman — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:26:24 -0000

aren't widgets the 'easy' button for rss? I take your general marketing point though.

Re: Is Sound Writing Bad Blogging?

david cushman — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:41:44 -0000

I agree. Funny thing about blog posts is that the conversation is a networked one. For example, I have some thoughts on this (around documents being always in beta) which I posted here.
http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2008/05/unfinished-symphonies.html
So I link out and if a reader of your blog chooses to follow that link they may comment here or there. And each comment may take the conversation branching off in multiple other directions (the risk and the value of friendfeed for example).

Anyone else want to branch off from this node?
Thanks, as ever, for your kind words!

Re: Overdue Shout-outs: Case Western, David Cushman, Ivan Pope, Useology

david cushman — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:56:24 -0000

Michael, thank you so much for those kind words. They mean a great deal and remind me that it's about time I added your blog to my list of recommended ones - which is what I'm off to do right now.
Would be absolutely honoured to work at the next desk. You never know, maybe that could happen some day. In the meantime, let's keep making the best of the global hotdesk!

Re: Microblogging is Screenplay Writing One Line at a Time

david cushman — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:23:49 -0000

love this. And it's a movie with an ever-evolving cast.

Re: Are We Designing for Community Completely Wrong?

david cushman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:18:16 -0000

A great thought Michael. It's why I add a widget to show latest comments at the top of my blog. Madness that I have to make an intervention to emphasise the conversation in a blog though, isn't it?

Same thinking could and should be applied to video and its emerging microblogging models (seesmic, qik et al).

One way for designers to approach it might be:
How do I illustrate putting the conversation at the heart of this?

Re: Watching Twitter Become the World’s First Ubiquitous Computing Brand

david cushman — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:40:19 -0000

Mike, you've inspired me to write my own take on the Mumbai/Twitter events. I'll be linking back to yours. Fine work fellah!

Re: Thank You for a Great 2008

david cushman — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:55:49 -0000

Go mike. May 09 be superfine!

Re: Ten Secrets to Better Blogging

david cushman — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:30:53 -0000

Just compiling this stuff for a project at work! so great timing. Thanks.
I wrote a quick 'How To' myself, and published that on my blog this week. It focuses on the attitudes of blogging:
http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to...

best dc

Re: How Does The Web Define Authority

david cushman — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:07:16 -0000

Chris, the whole influencer question is a vexed one. It gets very confused when you throw in the irrationality of real human behaviour - our liklihood simply to copy the monkey next to us.
I touched on some of this on a post I wrote for Stowe's /message. It's called How We Are Made Great - might have sent you a link to it in the past?

Re: PR-less launch kicks off a stack overflow of praise

david cushman — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:06:23 -0000

There's no such thing as a PR-less launch. We are in the world of P2PR now.

What does P2PR stand for? What would the group you are reaching out to like it to mean?
Peer-to-Peer Relations(hips),
Person-to-Person Relations(hips),
Publisher-to-Publisher Relations(hips)

Try the discussion going on here?
http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2008/07/p2pr-r...

Re: Best Books on Social Media

david cushman — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:39:53 -0000

can I also recommend communities dominate brands, smart mobs, everything is miscellaneous and, my own book, the power of the network (on lulu.com)