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Clay Shirky on Media Models

Clay Shirky fascinates me because he thinks about the world within the context of thinking that has gone before him. In his recent post, The Collapse of Complex Business Models he references Joseph Tainter’s 1988 book called The Collapse of Complex Societies....

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iPad At the iOffice

iPad At the iOffice

Todd Sieling of Corvus Consulting is a Boxcar Marketing officemate with an iPad. We covet the iPad. Todd kindly let us play with it. Then he polished our mucky finger prints off the screen. Things I like about Apple’s iPad: Amazingly crisp screen I already know...

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Harry Potter and the World Wide Web

In the summer of 2008 I was invited to Dallas, TX, for Portus 2008, a Harry Potter symposium by HPEF. Below is part of my presentation as the Saturday Keynote Luncheon speaker. Portus special guests also included Jim Dale, Dr. Henry Jenkins, and Edmund M. Kern. It was...

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