• Social Networking Connects Businesswomen On the Road – NYTimes.com
  congratulations, Tanja. great network by a great woman.
  (tags: socialnetwork women travel NYC business)
• Don’t tell the consumers… but one day they really could take control of what we market to them | Red C
  oh my god! how much can you misunderstand what VRM stands for?! scenarios like 'Consumer Power' site is what we are trying to avoid and eliminate their hold on our data.
  (tags: VRM consumer mistake data marketing)

• What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You? – NYTimes.com
  depressing. this is not new and has been part of the conman's bag of tricks throughout the ages. disturbing to see it deployed by 'respectable' companies. this is one of the reasons I work on VRM and Mine!
  (tags: financial data credit VRM psychology)
• Which way for VRM? | Right Side Up
  this is what happens when people take a concept, misapply it and other's argue with it. what is described as user-driven here is this is NOT what I had in mind when I introduced the concept ages ago.
  (tags: VRM user-driven business)

• Swine flu: How afraid should we be? – Telegraph
  one of the best explanations and context for the swine flu hype
  (tags: swineflu health history)
• “Meaningful Use”: a pivotal definition for new-wave medical records systems
  good summary of issues surrounding patient records. many long and complicate debates going on healthcare blogs. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fe-patients.net%2Farchives%2F2009%2F05%2Fmeaningful-use-a-pivotal-definition-for-new-wave-medical-records-systems.html
  (tags: medicalrecord patient health healthcare)
• Social media strategy guns for hire
  (tags: socialmedia ebay auction experiment adhocnium)
• FT.com | Willem Buiter's Maverecon | Gagging on Google
  a remarkably unhinged rant by someone who ought to know better. scary that someone with high academic title can come across as badly argued, incoherent and political in the worst possible sense.
  (tags: google monopoly academia stupid)
• Dilbert.com – end of capitalism
  sums it up
  (tags: comics capitalism dilbert)

• Talent imitates, genius steals: Be Nice Or Leave (Slight Refrain)
  oh my, the night of the social media experts continues. Nothing new that some of us haven't been saying for years, pretty pics and graphics – smacks of meedja/agency/branding pro.
  (tags: socialamedia marketing agency)
• MPs' expenses: It's easy to blame 'the system' without taking responsibility – Telegraph
  spot on! it's the attitude with which MPs claim everything, from the mundane to ridiculous. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fnewstopics%2Fmps-expenses%2F5301176%2FMPs-expenses-Its-easy-to-blame-the-system-without-taking-responsibility.html
  (tags: politics government MPs expenses stupid)
• Hackers darkened cities, CIA says
  so security by obscurity. Arrgh! Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.securityfocus.com%2Fbrief%2F666
  (tags: security stupid hackers government)
• Reports: Thief holds Virginia medical data ransom
  oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
  (tags: medicalrecord health hacking security ransom attack)

• Stress Test: Obama's Rosy Scenario
  (tags: banking politics crisis financial depression)
• Bruce Schneier and Marcus Ranum Face-Off: Should We Have an Expectation of Online Privacy? – Information Security Magazine
  Marcus: privacy offline has always been exclusive why should it be different online
  Bruce: lack of control over your data is a legal problem Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fsearchsecurity.techtarget.com%2FmagazineFeature%2F0%2C296894%2Csid14_gci1354832%2C00.html
  (tags: privacy data government online ownership control)
• P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » A critique of Data Portability efforts from a Free Network Services point of view
  (tags: dataportability ownership data)

For those who follow my escapades, I am auctioning two hours of my time next Wednesday 13 May on eBay, together with Chris Heuer, founder of AdHocnium.

This is a one time only opportunity (for this moment in time This is a low cost way for a smart company to take our minds for a test drive, to see if what we know, and to improve what you are doing with social media, marketing and web strategies to make your organization more succesfull in these efforts.

• The rigors of life unplugged – Los Angeles Times
  fascinating, even though hardly surprising. I think we are still looking for balance after giving in to the explosion of technological innovation. The answer is not to turn back or ignore it, but to find ways of subdueing it to other priorities.
  (tags: technology connectivity experiment children addiction online)
• Newspaper Narcissism : CJR
  indepth and historical analysis of what went wrong with the newspaper reporting
  (tags: newspapers media journalism history)
• Ideas Project
  weird stuff from Nokia (no names of people behind it anywhere), not sure what it's all about. Lotsa talking heads. Fluffy is the kindest way to describe it.
  (tags: nokia project ideas)
• Why Raising The Pay Wall May Be An Impossible Dream | paidContent:UK
  a good summary of why paid for news content is not a good strategy
  (tags: newspapers journalism businessmodel media)

• mike riddell (mikeriddell62) on Twitter
  (tags: no_tag)
• News Corp will charge for newspaper websites, says Rupert Murdoch | Media | guardian.co.uk
  "The current days of the internet will soon be over." Well, I am not holding my breath.
  (tags: newspapers murdoch businessmodel media journalism online)
• The little page of TRANSPORT CHAOS
  indispensable to Londoners
  (tags: travel realtime transport London)
• 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know
  excellent howto about facebook 'privacy'. amazing how complicated the settings can get, innit?
  (tags: facebook privacy security socialmedia Settings)

• Teblog: Hoard or share? Your call.
  sharing is always better than hoarding. I think it's a matter of finding a way to make money because of something, not with something, especially if that something is knowledge. Much harder to do when it is knowledge.
  (tags: knowledge tebbo sharing online JP ownership)
• Justice Scalia's Dossier: Interesting Issues about Privacy and Ethics
  love this! poetic justice or just puncturing someone's position based on ignorance. gathering info about someone not illegal, companies, government and individuals do it all the time. problem with data ownership and sources, not with searching what's out there.
  (tags: data personal law privacy dossier justice)
• Joho the Blog » [berkman] Stephen Wolfram – WolframAlpha.com
  great notes from Wolfram Alpha demo at Berkman
  (tags: wolfram search google knowledge berkman)
• Impressive: The Wolfram Alpha “Fact Engine”
  it may be online but it's a large centralise and carefully maintained database. useful no doubt but it's not of the web.
  (tags: search google wolfram facts data)
• YouTube – 2008 Latest Edition – Did You Know 3.0 – From Meeting in Rome this Year
  interesting numbers. mindblowing juxtapositions. still, it comes down to individual effort, emotional nature of which doesn't change much, even if technology makes it a lot easier.
  (tags: future trends statistics internet technology humans)

• Yammer
  (tags: microblogging twitter web2.0 yammer enterprise2.0 networking tools collaboration)
• Linux for Suits – The Only Silo
  what are silos and why they suck
  (tags: silos docsearls linux internet)
• Aroxo’s 21st Century haggling engine will target eBay
  (tags: VRM user-driven business techcrunch aroxo)
• How Much Sugar in Fruit?
  eek, a lot more than I hoped but at least it's fructose. still sugar though. I'd rather know than not.
  (tags: sugar health food)
• Umair Haque at BRITE '09 conference on Vimeo
  interesting but suspect – anyone uses business and marketing/branding campaigns as examples of real innovation is missing a beat or two. Sorry.
  (tags: business innovation marketing crisis financial)
• Noncompliant | ElementalMom
  well written and depressing beyond measure
  (tags: compliance business government laureen)
• Entropy Gradient Reversals
  some things never change. good.
  (tags: cluetrain marketing docsearls)
• YouTube – Larry Ellison – What The Hell Is Cloud Computing?
  Thanks to Oracle's CEO for spelling it out!! Agree, cloud computing is at best marketing buzzword, at worst a fraud selling the same thing for more money.
  (tags: cloudcomputing marketing buzzword oracle)

• Piwik – Web analytics – Open source
  (tags: opensource tools piwik statistics web analytics Mine!)
• Tonido Plug – Access your files, music and media from anywhere
  (tags: cloud private computing server Mine!)

• Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Macropayments
  very important piont: "Taking someone’s money is expensive. It incurs transaction and bookkeeping costs and it incurs emotional and social costs." Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.locusmag.com%2FFeatures%2F2008%2F09%2Fcory-doctorow-macropayments.html
  (tags: micropayments publishing macropayments doctorow money)
• Map of adriana872's relationships
  had to be done
  (tags: twitter map relationships visualisation)