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Taking Down Disqus Comments

I am finding that Disqus style comments are increasingly out of step on Tumblr. The overwhelming majority of interaction here is native Tumblr reposting, likes, and replies.

If you are a Tumblr non-user, I suggest you get an account and try it. Here’s a post where I describe how rich the ‘inside view’ is at Tumblr.

If you’d like to chat with me about something posted here you can try @stoweboyd on Twitter, click on the ‘contact me’ or ‘ask me anything’ in the right hand margin. 

15 May 2013 11 Permalink
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Turn And Face The Change

Writing at GigaOM Research has started to have a collateral impact in a far corner of my world. I am directing a great deal of my most mainstream social business and future of work writing there (and enjoying it), much of which would have appeared here, at stoweboyd.com. And as I have started to accept the fact that I can’t write at any depth about where the social revolution is headed without a larger scope — including design thinking, economics, cognitive science, and social criticism — more of what used to appear in underpaidgenius.com is showing up here. 

As an obvious case in point, I wrote Debunking Compulsory Coupledom here the other day, which even a few weeks ago I would have posted at underpaidgenius.com.

I have to face it: underpaidgenius is becoming significantly less important to me, and looks destined to become a combination recipe box and travel diary, with an occasional poem or political rant. 

16 February 2013 6 Permalink
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What I Write About, And Where

I am going through a shift in the focus of my various writing projects, primarily because of the new role I’ve taken on at GigaOM, as a curator in the Social channel. So, a great deal of my analysis on tools and techniques for social business will be showing up there, with regular links and a monthly update here at stoweboyd.com. Other topics at stoweboyd.com will include basically all the topics that I think impinge on what I am calling the Postnormal economy: technology, economics, business, science, and futures in general. My other interests — principally culture and politics — are found as always at underpaidgenius.com, and there is the special case of beaconstreets.com, where I advocate for a more walkable Beacon, NY, the city where I now reside.

29 December 2012 8 Permalink
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5000th post at stoweboyd.com

5000th post at stoweboyd.com

15 July 2012 60 Permalink
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Most Popular Posts Of 2011

Just looking back at the year’s posts, and here’s what people read the most on stoweboyd.com:

  1. What Twitter Could Learn From Tumblr
  2. Teens Hate Email
  3. Google+ Is Worse Than A Ghost Town, It’s Not Even Haunted
  4. Messiness At Scale
  5. 56% Of Young Professionals Won’t Work At A Company That Bans Twitter And Facebook
  6. Tumblr Is Crushing Wordpress, And Stealing The Future
  7. You Are Who You Follow
  8. Liquid Email
  9. The Facebooking Of Identity
  10. Why I Am Not Going To SxSW
  11. The Collapse Of The Complex: Why Facebook Will Fall
  12. Revolution = Messiness At Scale, Again
  13. The Rise Of Rōnin and The Liquid Economy
  14. Life As A Mosaic, Not A Monolith: What Google+ Means
  15. The Fall Of Mass Culture, The Rise Of Meaning

Some oldies from earlier years saw some reasonable traffic this year, as well:

  1. Web 2.0 Expo Meeting Scheduling: Twitpitch Me! [April 2008]
  2. Are You Ready For Social Software? [January 2005]
  3. The False Question Of Attention Economics [January 2010]
  4. It’s Betweenness That Matters, Not Your Eigenvalue: The Dark Matter Of Influence [February 2010]
  5. Why I am Going To Leave Squarespace [June 2010]

I left out things that I didn’t write, but I was just pointing to. The biggest post of the year falls in this category: Map Of A Tweet, which went viral although I simply posted the image.

Year-end posts get a bad deal in this year-at-a-time retrospective, so here’s a few of the most popular in the past months that didn’t make it into the top 15:

  1. The Famous Are Different From You And Me
  2. Graph Rank: Just Another Proof That Facebook Should Be Boycotted
  3. Rising Use of Consumer Technology in the Workplace Forcing IT Departments to Respond, Accenture Research Finds
  4. The End Of An Age, Or The End Of The Beginning?
  5. Staff to be banned from sending emails
  6. Why Apps Are The Future
  7. A Prediction: IBM And Microsoft
  8. Facebook Is The New Suburbia
  9. Learning From The Google+ Experiment: Operating System, Platform, Apps
  10. The Myth of Monotasking - Cathy Davidson via HASTAC
1 January 2012 34 Permalink
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Going Back To Two Blogs

After experimenting a few days with collapsing everything I blog onto stoweboyd.com, I have decided that I am too set in my ways, and I’ll go back to posting politics, economics, and so on back on underpaidgenius. I may do a lot more cross posting in the future, though.

12 October 2011 5 Permalink
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Twitter Shakes Things Up Again: Fred Wilson, Bijan Sabet Leaving Board - Peter Kafka - Social - AllThingsD ⇢

More turnover as Costolo marches out more of the old guard at Twitter, turning early stage investors out, after making room for seasoned entrepreneurs like David Rosenblatt and Mike McCue last year.

16 September 2011 1 Permalink
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China Consolidates Control of Rare Earth Industry - Keith Bradsher ⇢

China produces nearly 95 percent of the world’s rare earth materials, and it is taking the steps to improve pollution controls in a notoriously toxic mining and processing industry. But the moves also have potential international trade implications and have started yet another round of price increases for rare earths, which are vital for green-energy products including giant wind turbines, hybrid gasoline-electric cars and compact fluorescent bulbs. General Electric, facing complaints in the United States about rising prices for its compact fluorescent bulbs, recently noted in a statement that if the rate of inflation over the last 12 months on the rare earth element europium oxide had been applied to a $2 cup of coffee, that coffee would now cost $24.55.
I read in Wikipedia that rare earths are distributed globally, but it will take years to build up the infrastructure to process them in reasonable quantities.

16 September 2011 3 Permalink
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This Is My 3400th Post Here

Wow.

stoweboyd.com has been my blog for just a year, but I imported over (nearly) all my old posts from /Message in 2010, and a bunch but not all of the posts from Get Real back in 2006, and I had ported a bunch of the Timing posts back in 2004 into that. I even have posted my old columns from Darwin, but there’s only 6 or 8 of those. My original blog, in 1999, was Message From Edge City, which was shut down one day when my hosting service, convey.com, was closed down. I saved a few posts, but restarted on Blogger in 1999, with Timing.

Still, it’s a lot of wordage. And a lot of yearage. 3400 posts, 12 years, and counting.

Thank you, folks. It’s been an honor, and I ain’t done yet.

12 May 2011 5 Permalink
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My new Tumblr theme, Inspire Well, has some cool features. One is that posts can be designated to be a default intermediate width, an extra small width (‘xs’) or extra large width (‘xl’).These designations are made by the use of Tumblr tags, like ‘xs’, or can be set to all wide or all default widths in the theme settings. For those that read the blog by actually visiting the www.stoweboyd.com website will see a jumble of stories of different widths, perhaps more visually interesting than a monotonic march of same-sized posts marching down the page. There is no way — currently — for the reader to ask for a presentation of same-sized stories, alas, but you can make the browser window narrower to reduce the jumble a bit. Or you can wander through stories one-at-a-time by using the previous post button in the footer.

My new Tumblr theme, Inspire Well, has some cool features. One is that posts can be designated to be a default intermediate width, an extra small width (‘xs’) or extra large width (‘xl’).These designations are made by the use of Tumblr tags, like ‘xs’, or can be set to all wide or all default widths in the theme settings.

For those that read the blog by actually visiting the www.stoweboyd.com website will see a jumble of stories of different widths, perhaps more visually interesting than a monotonic march of same-sized posts marching down the page. There is no way — currently — for the reader to ask for a presentation of same-sized stories, alas, but you can make the browser window narrower to reduce the jumble a bit. Or you can wander through stories one-at-a-time by using the previous post button in the footer.

25 April 2011 1 Permalink
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About

Web anthropologist, futurist, author. My focus is the future, and the tectonic forces pushing business, media, and society into an unclear and accelerating future. more.

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GigaOM Research analyst and curator.

Also writing beaconstreets.com.

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Socialogy

  • John Hagel | John offers up some great insights, like the fact that passion is lower the larger that businesses get.

  • Euan Semple | A chat with my old pal, and the author of Organizations Don't Tweet, People Do

  • Will McInnes | The author of Culture Shock and managing director of Nixon/McInnes

  • Jennifer Magnolfi | An interview with the woman who said, 'Work is not a place you go, it's a thing you do'.

    • Hot Now

  • What Drives Us? | A draft chapter of my book, discussing motivations, Maslow's hierarchy, and fluidarity.

  • Socialogy: Interview With John Hagel | I Speak with Joh Hagel about the innovation at the edge.

  • Complex organisation arises from webs of interaction among causal factors | So, it turns out that DNA is, in fact, a great metaphor for business culture, but only after you realize that DNA is not a few hundred off-on switches, but instead a universe of unknowable complexities, that we can interact with, and understand at some abstract cartoonish level, but not control, and never fully comprehend.

  • Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy’s Last Safe Haven | Paul Ford

  • Innovators Get Better With Age | Companies make a mistake by relying too much on the innoations of the young, because Nobel laureats don't come into their prime until their 50s.

    • Oldie

  • Infodemics | 2009 | Passing incomplete or inaccurate information about some risk event can make people take actions that increase the damage of the event itself.

    • Lynx theme created by Andrew Stichbury for Tumblr.