TheWayoftheWeb

Just a theory, but could it be that the business side of the industry, in control of the finance, business strategy, distribution etc could be worried about letting the inmates take over the asylum?
After all, the creators – the writers, directors,musicians etc seem to have had a rough idea about leading a tribe of passionate [...]

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I first came across ‘The School of Life‘ via the excellent Mark Earls. It’s apparently ‘ a new cultural enterprise based in central London offering good ideas about everyday living.’ And that includes: ‘ evening and weekend courses, holidays to unexpected locations, stigma-free psychotherapy, secular sermons, conversation meals, a floating faculty of experts and a [...]

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There’s been some discussion on the practice of linking internally within a site, kicked off by this piece by Tim O’Reilly, and spreading to places like JP Rangaswami’s Confused of Calcutta. JP references the Cluetrain, and the idea that links subvert hierarchies, and break the broadcast model and walled garden approach.
Which is entirely true.
But I [...]

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It’s not surprising there’s been a lot of response to the Nielsen Online findings that both Facebook and Myspace have dropped around 5% in UK audience figures for January 2008, month-on-month. Bebo also dropped 2% for UK users MoM for January.
It’s worth noting that the findings come from monitoring UK usage at home and at [...]

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