Chris Anderson's blog about the shift away from mass marketing toward niche marketing, and the implications of this (and other effects of the IT revolution that make Long Tail possible) for the future of society.
large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future
"social networking services that really work are the ones that are built around objects. (...) Flickr, for example, has turned photos into objects of sociality. On del.icio.us the objects are the URLs. EVDB, Upcoming.org, and evnt focus on events as objec
This paper examines the nature of virtual teams and their place in the networked economy. It presents a framework for categorising virtual teams and argues that fundamental changes have taken place in the business environment which force people and organi
Directing their discussion at a general audience, Hildreth and Kimble present 24 separately authored chapters exploring the application of the concept of "Communities of Practice" to knowledge management in business or commerce organizations.
"The use of citation networks as a ranking methods is not free from problems, but it's, IMO, a vastly superior approach to scientific value discovery and would yield a much better service to the scientific community in general than the current peer review