Comments on: Personal networks as the information highway on the social web

By: awaldstein

awaldstein — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:57:01 +0000

Hi Ron….thanks for the comments and glad to hear that some of my thoughts stuck with you over time.

Thanks for the repost on the Economist!

By: Ron Wolf

Ron Wolf — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:06:18 +0000

I've once again had cause to come back to this fine post. In this case prompted by this just posted essay in The Economist:

http://www.economist.com/blogs...

which I thought was related. Not sure why I bother, but I posted back a comment to The Economist's essay in which I refer to you blog post here. Just closing the loop by letting you know.

http://www.economist.com/blogs...

By: awaldstein

awaldstein — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:36:11 +0000

Hi Ron

I'm a believer that we are hacking our way to new and more interesting ways of doing things...education, marketing, product development and more.

Check out Mark's blog. He is an articulate explorer of the future.

By: Ron W

Ron W — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:06:04 +0000

tho i'm nostalgic for it, and wonder how life will work without it, i have to agree with your pithy statement, “The day of the pundit and the grand expert is gone.”

indeed, could be that the personal and the real are what rises from this froth. as you, the kind of thing that i like to hope for – so am skeptical… i'll be heading off to check out Essel's comments on making sense out of millions of voices…

Ron Wolf

By: awaldstein

awaldstein — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:36:11 +0000

Hi Ron

It is the era of the 'personal' and I'm very positive that changes are occuring and for the better.

Check out Mark's blog. He is an articulate purveyor of the future.

By: Ron W

Ron W — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:06:04 +0000

tho i'm nostalgic for it, and wonder how life will work without it, i have to agree with your pithy statement, “The day of the pundit and the grand expert is gone.”

Ron Wolf

By: David Semeria

David Semeria — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:32:10 +0000

Great comment Mark, I completely agree.

By: Mark Essel

Mark Essel — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:51:39 +0000

A good friend and coworker is hitting lake Tahoe in a week, their descriptions makes me desire for a good skiing/snowboarding vacation, but it'll have to wait a while.

By: awaldstein

awaldstein — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:41:51 +0000

Hi Mark.

We really do think in parallel lines from different places. And I'm flattered that some of the ideas spoke to you and inspired some thoughts of your own.

Your note on Google and social link sharing is right on and something I've been thinking alot about lately as well.

I'll spend some time on your site and read through your posts. Been a bit behind as I'm spending 5 days skiing and even I can't ski through a foot of powder and respond to Disqus notifications on my iPhone;)

By: Mark Essel

Mark Essel — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:33:55 +0000

Once again you've outdone yourself. This post is full of several spot on "best practices" for businesses and leaders.
"Socialization is the fabric for a new kind of educational discourse that sits on top of dynamic connectors like Disqus and drives us towards blog communities of trusted friends. The curriculum is the banter we create around topics of interest. This process is inherently dynamic and reinvents itself continuously.

Authentic people, valued through their conversations and trusted because they are transparent and knowable in the real world are key to this. Hidden identities and unlinked personas are by definition not as valued. Socialization as a venue for community requires honesty and transparency. And I believe that this process makes folks both more civil and more unabashed, thus feeding the cycle of honest exchange."

That block stands out in a fantastic post. It get's to the heart of the power and richness of a healthy blog community. Even at the fringes of Fred's blog, when I first read it for a few weeks, I knew there was something special taking place that I had been missing out on as independent blogger and would be business builder.

I do see fairly strong flux happening: the social link sharing market is so rapidly consuming what Google used to OWN hands down. The last couple of days I've been writing long posts on this very topic. The Prize, Making Sense Out of Millions of Voices & Dynamic Design Patterns: A Hybrid Solution if & when you have time, dynamic design patterns is I realize partially inspired by your Beta as a State of mind post, I'll add a reference to it now.