The future of music is in the bloggers' hands. It is blogs and other independent online publishers with strong voices and personalities who are going to dominate the future of music evolution, discovery, promotion, and distribution. “Whether or rather how you will get to keep the music will not be…

I shot the video interview that follows for the Frontiers of Interaction conference, which took place yesterday in Turin, Italy. Superbly organized by Leandro Agrò and Matteo Penzo, the sold-out event brought together high-prestige names like sci-fi writer and visionary Bruce Sterling, Elizabeth Churchill Principal Research Scientist di Yahoo, Jeffrey…

Don’t know what content tags are? Tagging content has become, over the last few years, an important component of the online publishing process as it allows editors to extend the reference labels, associations, and search keywords by which any type of content can be found. In the early days of…

Many are the forces at work at the crossroads between communication and new media technologies, and the changes taking place are truly sweeping the news, publishing, and media industries in ways we could have hardly foreseen a few years ago. One thing looks certain. The individual is going to be…

I have just written and posted a pretty long comment to both the Adventive I-PR mailing list moderated by the highly capable B L Ochman and to the Lance Dublin’s Pre-Conference and On-Site Weblog/Dialogue discussion taking place now online at the Online Learning 2003 Discussion Conference. The topic is blogs…

Beyond file-sharing, peer-to-peer is an alternative way of looking at work, life, and the way we make money. Although mainstream media coverage of P2P has mostly focused its spotlights on the ongoing debate around file-sharing and pirated media (music, movies, games), the social, economic, and political consequences of peer-to-peer go…

Social media optimization is a marketing approach utilized to increase the visibility of your site by leveraging the power of social media and online communities. Social media optimization is a term originally introduced by Rohit Bhargava back in 2006. Rohit writes: “For years now, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for websites…

A virtual team is only as good as the way it operates. In the second part of this video interview, Ken Thompson, a team collaboration expert, reasons about the difficulties people encounter when choosing to work in a distributed workgroup and explains further how following the behavior of nature’s own…

A virtual team is only as good as the way it operates. No matter how cool or advanced the collaboration technology used, what makes a huge difference is how your team approaches the actual day-to-day team operations. Ken Thompson, the team collaboration expert, explains in this video interview with Robin…