Part 1 of 5:
This is the first in a five-part-series on the decline, fall and possible renaissance of local news.
In this first installment, I’m going to share key excerpts from a very interesting 475-page report on the state of local news by the F…
The Information Needs of Communities
30 June 2011 by
VRooMing along
29 June 2011 by
A quick progress report on a number of VRM fronts.
First, lots of action around TrustFabric.org, a VRM company in South Africa. To get some background on context, start with KYC: Know Your Customer. This good-sense imperative takes on official qualitie…
Are you in charge of what you buy, or is it vice versa?
22 June 2011 by
That’s the question of the day, at least for me.
Toward being in charge of what you buy, we have Buyosphere, which is a VRM company. I know that, because Tara Hunt runs it and has been working from the start to imbue it with VRM ideals.
Toward what y…
Let’s all be spotted hawks
22 June 2011 by
OwnerIQ sez,
This video explains what they mean.
Compare those people and the way they define themselves—as products (a BMW, an iPad)—to the way Walt Whitman defined himself, just before Industry won the Industrial Revolution:
I know I am solid …