by Nick Gall | October 4, 2010 | 8 Comments
What I find most disappointing, irritating, and dismissive about Malcolm Gladwell’s recent New Yorker article Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted is that it sets the activism bar so high. He’s dismissive of any form of activism except “high-risk activism”: “Activism that challenges the status quo—that attacks deeply rooted problems—is not for [...]
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by Nick Gall | September 14, 2009 | Comments Off
I just took a look at twitter’s revised terms of service. I posted the my feedback using the feedback link, but I’d thought I’d also post it in my blog for all to see (and respond to): We both own my content Given your legal language below, twitter effectively jointly "owns" my content. In other [...]
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by Nick Gall | June 17, 2009 | 2 Comments
I’m trying our Zemanta, an add on to Windows Live Writer. Zemanta is supposedly a semantic web application that automagically enriches your blog posts with suggested links, tags, related articles, pictures, etc. For example, if I type the phrase mars lander, Zemanta will automatically do wonderful things. Well it’s supposed to do amazing things, but [...]
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by Nick Gall | January 21, 2009 | 2 Comments
Has social software really led us to this? According to the NY Times Bits blog, nearly 234,000 facebookers were defriended by their so-called friends looking to score a free hamburger. Burger King ran a promotion on Facebook that gave someone a coupon for a free hamburger if they would drop 10 friends. Harsh but hilarious. [...]
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by Nick Gall | January 15, 2009 | 9 Comments
A colleague of mine was bemoaning the fact that despite the fact he had blogged on a particular topic, an internal Gartner email thread sprung up on the same topic instead of in the comments on his post. This despite the fact that he sent an email to the thread mentioning the post. But all [...]
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by Nick Gall | November 12, 2008 | 2 Comments
As usual, Nick Carr loves the “poke in the eye” headline (“IT Doesn’t Matter Anymore”, “The Big Switch”) paired with rather prosaic analysis. He’s at it again with Who Killed the Blogosphere. His catalyst is the recent article in the Economist on the mainstreaming of the blogosphere, Oh Grow Up. (See how Nick takes a [...]
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by Nick Gall | October 2, 2008 | 13 Comments
My colleague Anthony Bradley posted a thoughtful response to my post Web 2.0: Now with Fewer Features. First he wonders why I didn’t mention Gall’s Law. Well, If I were to cite a law it would be Sowa’s Law, which I sometimes refer to as Sowa’s Corollary to Gall’s Law: Whenever a major organization develops a [...]
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