The Age of Wiki

Is it the age of wiki? Yes, and why not? It’s the age of every other piece of collaboration software. But to start a land rush we’ll need to come up with some pretty hip slang to describe this fairly unlovely, rubber-jointed piece of software.

Meanwhile try this five-minute video by Common Craft called Wikis in Plain English…

Hunter and Associates: Stories We Noticed 2007-06-22

~ Customer reviews are increasingly important to online shoppers over price
~ ad agency culture-shock continues; agencies hustle to thrive and survive; the digital age of advertisng becomes ever harder for ad veterans to deny
~ citizen media is subverting the old order of media control
~ Facebook opens its API to developers, and the land rush is on, with one typical entrepreneur’s story here
~ with Facebook’s move, what happens to MySpace now?
~ love those widgets, but they sure slow down the page load times - until now with this new fix

NYT Rumors of the Dot Calm Era Are Exaggerated

Sunday’s New York Times said that the growth of commerce on the Web was experiencing a “dramatic slowdown,” and noted that “Internet fatigue” was setting in with consumers. It was a sky-is-falling article, but even on its face it was hard-pressed to make a case.

Let the Job Find You

A few days ago Zoli Erdos asked tongue-in-cheek if there was a Tech Talent Shortage in Silicon Valley. He had run into a job-seeker with a hugely impressive resume who was having trouble finding a job.

Then he answered his own question in the best way one possibly can nowadays: he linked to one of his earlier blog posts.

And his point - note well - was that you don’t use a resume anymore to find a job.

From Thoughtful Man to Blogger

Nicholas Carr has a small discussion going on at Britannica Blog, from his post yesterday called From Contemplative Man to Flickering Man, whose central theme is the change in the nature of our intelligence brought about by the change in the media of our knowledge consumption. But it’s an uneven presentation.

He starts with a really useful primary observation - that intelligence takes its shape from the externals it perceives rather than from an inherent solidness of its own - but then he makes connections that are uncalled for.

Movable Type Admits Defeat

Every time I land on a Movable Type blog I get a twinge of nostalgia mixed with respect for how clean the lines are. But MT was so long ago, and as with most everybody else I moved over to WordPress when MT decided to charge. Now they’ve decided to stop charging and go open source. Too late.