I just came back from Istanbul, and I bought a carpet there. After many suffering many assaults in Istanbul's Grand Bazaar from usual carpet sellers who try to crimp you and won't let you go ("Where are you from? Come...
Reconciling Weblogs, Collaborative spaces and e-mail
From Prof. Albert Anghern of Insead: The Russians rioted in the 1840s when the government tried to persuade them to grow potatoes. Why? Because being used to living mainly on rye bread, they suspected a plot to turn them into...
Felix Oberholzer of the Harvard Business School and Koleman Strumpf of UNC Chapel Hill just completed an extensive empirical analysis of p2p sharing which concludes that Downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero. Now that's...
A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools. A must read by Jon Erickson (or so it seems) which strongly suggests that the Open Source movement will have a central role in developping those collaborative tools, because they must be interoperable to work,...
About "I'm blogging this - A closer look at why people blog" (via Lilia), 5 nuggetts and related personal comments linking weblogs and innovation: 1- Blogs are often thought to be mundane and superficial. Yet, as Nardi writes Many of...
Article about corporate weblogs Fast Company | It's A Blog World After All talking about employees "playing with dynamite".IBM began blogging in December, and by February, some 500 employees in more than 30 countries were using it to discuss software...