Brilliant stuff from Kevin Kelly on the situation were are increasingly finding ourselves in with regard to Content Overabundance: There is more than you will ever be able to consume.
(Compare: The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re All Going To Miss Almost Everything – NPR ).
This is the fundamental equation you have to understand about the [...]

As I’ve mentioned previously, I had been doing a lot of Curation over at Amplify.com, but the community there due to various issues is now nearly defunct (the arrival of Google+ for Interest Graph related discussions was partially responsible). And more importantly, the response time of Amplify has gotten so slow that I feel I [...]

Why did Seth Priebatsch garner so much attention with his keynote speech on Gamification at SXSWi in Austin this year? At a conference where everyone agrees it is becoming increasingly difficult to break through the noise at all anymore no less.

Why? Because Gamification has not only been one of the trend words of 2010/11 in [...]

“Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter” claims a recent article in the New York Times, based on some statistics gather by Pew Center research that appear to show a percentage decline in self-identified bloggers among the younger age groups, and stagnation among the more middle-aged set.
Is Blogging dying, or at least [...]

OK, so Facebook game maker Zynga is raising additional money at a $10 BILLION valuation. One would hope that that’s enough to make anyone’s ears prick up…
So how did they get here: By understanding something about human psychology, and then HACKING it for all its worth.
1) Addict people with SIMPLE, low learning-curve games, that 2) [...]

CHART OF THE DAY: The Death Of The Music Industry
This stunning chart needs to be put in some context to understand the true nature of the upheaval facing what I like to call the “Dinomedia”:
1) Forget About Buying Music Online – People Don’t Even Want To STEAL Music!
2) FREE can actually work, with a little creativity: [...]