For People

We all create data as we navigate our digital lives. User’s are finding the world is making decisions about them, and they can’t see, control, or correct that data. We don’t have an accurate picture of our digital selves. We need to be able to collect and manage our own data, as we make it, on the fly. Convergence on common API’s, data formats, data sharing and data portability standards are key elements PDE is working toward. There are many challenges to make the PDE viable.

A Cluetrain talk turns 10

Ten years ago this month, I gave the opening keynote for the International Retail Conference of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Instutut, in Lucerne, Switzerland. The venue was the amazing Culture and Congress Centre, which had opened just two years earlier. D…

CRM+VRM 2010 Follow-up

It’s been a week since VRM+CRM 2010, and there have been many conversations on private channels (emails, face-to-face, phone-to-phone, face-to-faces), all “processing,” as they say. Meanwhile we also have some very interesting postings to chew o…

Beyond caveat emptor

First, three posts by JP Rangaswami:

Does the Web make experts dumb?
Does the Web make esperts dumb, Part 2: who is the teacher?
Does the Web make experts dumb, Part 3: the issues

His bottom line in the last of those: “… people are saying the web…