Comments on: All Tomorrows Armies

By: What Newspapers Need to do Tomorrow to Survive

What Newspapers Need to do Tomorrow to Survive — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:36:06 +0000

[...] gather all my thoughts into one cohesive post. And then, I came across Chris’s post entitled All Tomorrow’s Armies and realized that Chris managed to coalesce all my thoughts! Stay with the old at your own risk. [...]

By: @Stephen

@Stephen — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:45:00 +0000

The identity web. Provocation. Higher and higher levels of granularity. Privateers instead of navies. Special agents instead of armies. Rapid prototyping. Ready, fire, aim, fire.
So much food for thought here. Thanks for the intriguing post and the insightful comments all.

By: PodChicks

PodChicks — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:02:33 +0000

Speaking of Rupert Murdoch — Just saw a documentary called OutFoxed. http://tinyurl.com/5akn85
The man owns media outlets that reach over 3/4 of the world’s population. Notice I didn’t say “news” outlets because Murdoch isn’t interested in reporting the news – he’s interested in controlling what people hear and see. Don’t count Murdoch out yet.

By: Sheena Miller

Sheena Miller — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:50:16 +0000

I like this. Encouraging and straightforward. Thanks!

By: What’s a Beme? | Real Central VA

What’s a Beme? | Real Central VA — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:31:52 +0000

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By: M.

M. — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:45:53 +0000

What a great post. Small news is still important news. Our view, what we see and hear and know is OUR NEWS, the news that matters. Control what we can, let go of the rest and live to see another day.

Dream Big.
M.

By: rebekah donaldson ('red')

rebekah donaldson ('red') — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:39:17 +0000

Do you remember the monologue at the end of the Matrix? I thought I was having a flashback to that at the end of your post. Poetic.

Anyway, I wonder whether there are any other folks out there who started subscribing to a ton more ‘old’ media outlets when they got rid of cable TV.

When we fired our cable TV service provider years ago we became big newspaper and magazine subscriber. Not exclusively — online we follow many good feeds and tweeters and video sources etc.

But we felt like, to stay current, we wanted the Times, the Chronicle, Wired, MAKEmagazine, regional Business Journals, The Week, and others to supplement online stuff.

We read, read, read — and use iTunes like crazy. Are we that unusual?

By: Michael Silverton

Michael Silverton — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:19:59 +0000

doh! “clubfactor” supposed to be CLUEFACTOR.

My bad for trusting tabletPC ink input a bit too quickly. sigh. Tablets way better than past versions, but still require a little extra from their humans. Sorry for extra post.

By: Michael Silverton

Michael Silverton — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:14:21 +0000

@Chris Allison: Right. Totally appreciate the corporate mittens required for such entities to attempt to interact with humans. Sorry if analogy a little vague, will try to elaborate a bit later.

@Amber Naslund: “true innovation is as much human-based as it is charted out in a boardroom. Human relationships don’t go through R&D. They’re imperfect, and they defy logic sometimes. It’s time we quit railing against that and learn how adapt. It’s happening anyway, with or without us.”

OMG! My head is exploding with the clubfactor overload cn this thread. Good Stuff(tm). ;-)

By: Amber Naslund

Amber Naslund — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:01:11 +0000

@Chris I sure think so. The absolute rapidity of our hyperconnected world requires it. We can’t afford months of research and development for every damn thing we do, especially in communications. And the human element of communicating means that there are *always* unforseen variables.

IDEO understands this, and they embrace the idea that thousands of imperfect ideas that can be deployed and tested in a hurry trump a handful of those that are refined in a bubble. They understand that true innovation is as much human-based as it is charted out in a boardroom.

Human relationships don’t go through R&D. They’re imperfect, and they defy logic sometimes. It’s time we quit railing against that and learn how adapt. It’s happening anyway, with or without us.