Social Media

  • StockTwits Spotlight: Peter L Brandt

    Today, I would like to highlight a guy who, three weeks ago, barely knew what social media was. Peter L Brand still doesnt know the finer points of user generated conent and it will likely take him a while to catch onto the subtelties. But who cares. This guy is a seasoned and wildly…

  • Sorry Hosni, You Can't Turn Off the Internets

    I see this epsisode as an unintended but gargantum scientific experiment that had to come sooner or later. We are testing Hosni’s Law which states that once an autocrat attempts to turn off the internet, it is too late for him. If he falls, it will serve as caution to other autocrats. They will…

  • Andrew Mason, Diminishing Marginal Utility and Kicking Ass

    There’s a ton of criticism tonight towards Andrew Mason and Groupon for turning down Google’s $5 billion plus bid. Well, the naysayers are wrong and its not because they simply can’t fathom turning down that kind of money from $GOOG or because they are the consensus. Two factors are at play that combined fully…

  • The Constructivist Revolution and New Media (Revisited)

    All one needs to do is log in and consistently over time engage a process of expressing ideas in the present while allowing others to likewise respond in good faith with their own best ideas. The upshot is that thinkers across an endless variety of subjects who engage might arise and initiate new knowledge…