A clean description of Disruptive Technology in this blog. “The first muskets were not very effective compared to existing weapon technologies. Their value on the battlefield was marginal, but it was much less expensive to give some guy a few hours training in how fire a musket than to outfit and train a knight or [...]
July 17, 2008
Are Universities elitist?
I believe they are – and more are founded on the notion of a meritocracy. Which makes it a privilege to attend university. From the Sydney Morning Herald: “But the situation remains that individuals from low socio-economic status remain significantly under-represented in Australian higher education.” More …
July 17, 2008
Are Bloggers non-professional?
Stehen Cohen in his blog comments:
The false dichotomy of the schism between the professional journalists, journalism educators and academics and the world of new media, particularly as embodied by bloggers prevails. It seems largely perpetuated by a somewhat chauvinistic attitude on the part of some professional journalists who cling to the notion that a blogger, [...]
July 17, 2008
Social Media for Enterprises
Social media is used by people in the audiovisual business and the IT businesses to extend their business. Then Obama’s campaign did that – plus it energised the youtubers to take images/videos of Obama and extend that into clips of him dancing. In this context here is a goal: “The key to leveraging social media [...]
