Star Trek: The Next Production Frontier
Forty-five years ago on this same day and day of the week (Thursday, September 8, 1966), the first episode of Star Trek aired on NBC. The episode was entitled, The Man Trap. So instead of penning a...
View ArticlePutting the Tech Back into Social Web
This article was originally part of the fifth installment to my smartup series. As I believe the message best fits in its own article bucket, I’ve placed it here instead. I want to address an odd...
View ArticleThe New Garage: Bootstrapping Your Startup
I came across a Google Plus debate awhile back discussing what the new garage was for startups. To give you a brief background, a few famous startups actually started in a garage. The Apple boys used...
View ArticleThe Ecosphere And the Economy
One of the many joys I periodically experience is that aha moment of seeing connections within and between systems. As a trained scientist with a graduate degree in business, my insights often...
View ArticleMaking the Stream More Intelligent
We’ve all heard the term CMS — Content Management System. These systems broadly fall into the blog platform category although they can often be more than simple blogging engines. WordPress and Drupal...
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The Emerging Global Brain and the Internet’s Future
A few interesting posts and seemingly-unrelated themes have been circulating around Google Plus for the past few weeks or so. These thoughts have, I believe, been spurred on by the impending threat of...
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Integrating MongoDB Into BitNami’s MAMPStack
This article is for all you OS X Lion-based Mac developers who use BitNami’s MAMPStack and dream of being able to add a NOSQL database engine, like MongoDB, to the stack. If you are not running Lion,...
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Do You Live to Work, Or Work to Live?
At my previous company, my partners and I agreed on many issues. We also disagreed on a number of issues. But perhaps the biggest area of disagreement between myself and my partners was work style. As...
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All Rise or A Standing Ovation
Last week I decided it was time for a major change in my working lifestyle. This weekend I made it happen. I spent the entire weekend offline, tearing apart my home office and working on my solution. I...
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Fracturing The Stream
I just read an interesting article on the BBC’s website (in their Science & Environment section) and was surprised to see this little social gem at the end of the article: Do you think Quentin has...
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The Wilder Side of Me
From the title you may assume that this post will wax ineloquently about my party lifestyle (which I don’t have), possibly sharing some links to Facebook photos that I probably should have never set...
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A Migration Celebration
Some of you have undoubtably noticed my lack of presence over the past several weeks on the various Stream channels I participate in throughout the day. Whereas my cessation of postings on Google Plus...
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Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of the Midwest
Most of you know me as someone who thinks and writes about, and works and lives in, the Social Web and Future Space. Some of you have noticed my mysterious absence from the various social channels I...
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Software With Freedoms, Not Free Software
I’ve been an open source advocate, devotee, user, and developer for many years. I’m a member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). I frequently write about the Open Web, Social Web, and Open Source of...
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Coders Of The Future Will Not Be Engineers
When most people who read my blog see the word engineer they immediately think of those who write code for a living. In other words, computer programmers who may or may not have actual degrees in...
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The Death of Ecommerce Startups?
Imagine having to collect and remit sales tax to hundreds of taxing authorities. For etailers, that nightmare may soon be a reality.I’m working on several startups concurrently. One which will hard...
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Google Plus Communities: Analyzing The Impact On User Engagement
Google Plus Engagement Pre Versus Post Communities; clicky to embiggen I’ve suspected for awhile that since the launch of Google Plus Communities three months ago, I am not receiving the same level of...
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Are You “Ment” To Be A Great Leader?
What makes a great leader? Is it solid management acumen? Is it an aggressive drive? Is it the desire to win? The sign of a great leader is often more nuanced than a set of applied, outwardly facing...
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The Superorganism, Superorganization, and The Global Brain
I finally had time this morning to read Gideon Rosenblatt’s latest thought piece, Are Organizations Alive? A Different Take on the Evolution of Technology on his The Vital Edge blog. It is another...
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Joining The Band, The Apple Watch Band
Months before the Apple Watch was revealed (then speculatively referred to as the iWatch), there were rumors that the watch may have as many as ten biosensors. However, at the big reveal this past...
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