The Daily Lark

Efficiency doesn’t equal meaning. That’s the essence of Nick Carr’s comments on Google. I tend to agree. Knowing involves work – and while search is certainly part of the work, the result doesn’t yield knowing other than at the most basic level.
"It’s not what you know," writes Google’s Marissa Mayer, "it’s what you can [...]

Loic asks how do you start the day online… this is how this blogger/marketer/entrepreneur does it…
Here is my sequence in general, but it does change depending on the day’s priorities. It’s a mix of reading, replying and chatting…

check email, both gmail and Outlook – scan and empty inbox
check Dell.com and thedailylark
scan Google blog search for [...]

Nice words from over at Digital Capitalism… when people say nice things it encourages me to write more… I also enjoy reading Jeremiah Owyang – Sr Analyst at Forrester Research: Social Computing. Exploring the others recommended…

Launching a blog is like growing tomatoes. At the earliest stage it’s anyones guess as to what might grow. And, even if you get a plant out of the ground there is no guarantee it will bear fruit…
Hugh gets at this when speaking to our Digital Nomads blog. We’ve got it off the ground and [...]

Patterns as a lens through which to look at your Wiki and its users is a very cool idea.
Over the years I’ve consulted to all shapes and kinds of organizations on social media – on ethe of the things that participating forces is the need for organizations to actually learn how to have a [...]

From El Reg…

A US bill that would shield journalists, including bloggers, from revealing their sources has cleared the House Judiciary Committee, an important stage in becoming law. There is already legislation in the UK which protects journalists and bloggers.
The US Free Flow of Information Act protects journalistic sources generally, but does include several exceptions regarding [...]

Another interesting piece, this time on how opinion leaders drive buzz…
Bloggers, discussion-board denizens, and social networkers are courted by marketers, who believe they build buzz that can make or break new products and Web sites. But there’s growing controversy surrounding such efforts, and debate over just how much sway these opinion leaders really have…
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The Blog censorship raises its ugly head not once but twice today.
First, from GMSV, the US military is clamping down on bloggers requiring that superiors approve of Blog posts. There are a large portion of US employers that require this if the blog is on company time and about company matters. This clearly doesn’t [...]

Are blogs headed for a slowdown? “Research by Gartner, according to the magazine, found that the number of blogs will top out at about 100 million this summer. But it also noted that some 200 million blogs are no longer being updated–many of them abandoned by their authors.” What a terrible measure of the health [...]

Great story in AdAge this morning on P&G moving to dialogue-driven communications. They get that it’s no longer about “telling and selling”.
Procter & Gamble’s Jim Stengel described a major cultural shift that is turning the world’s largest marketer into a starter of conversations and a solver of consumers’ problems rather than a one-way communicator. “It’s [...]