How many times have you been in a meeting where the sole purpose is for someone to deliver a presentation or pitch?  It could be your agency presenting a new creative idea.  Or perhaps its a start-up that is presenting why you should do business with them. Or maybe you have even been the one giving the presentation? The common

What if you asked folks like Tim Berners-Lee, Chris Dixon, David Weinberger, and Nova Spivack to explain the future of the Internet?  Or had them explain concepts such as the Semantic Web or Linked Data?   Or gave Clay Shirky the chance to talk about what he considers to be “one of the deepest questions in all of Western Philosophy?

One of the conversations that stood out from my visit to the VCU Brandcenter in March was a discussion with two Creative Strategists, Adam Wiese and Melissa Cabral. The two were working on a project where they were examining the impact of “ubiquitous connection” to the Internet.  The result of their work is an article, From 3rd Places to Blurred

In January, the Kaiser Family Foundation released a study on young people’s media use entitled Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds. I came across the study thanks to a post by Chas Edwards at Digg who called out some really interesting stats such as: Young people are spending more time per day consuming media on a

“The media that is good at creating conversations, is no good at creating groups.  And the media that is good at creating conversations, is no good at creating groups” – Clay Shirky from TED@State Thanks to Mitch Joel, I came across this great video from June 2009 where Clay Shirky shared the above quote.  Mitch was dead right when he