Interesting web aps
Lachlan has some interesting thoughts on cool web apps based on a tweetvey (twitter survey…)… And Richard weighs in with his…
Imeem (I’m enjoying exploring this admittedly trendy music site, especially the playlists), soup.io (an underrated lifestreaming app, better than Tumblr IMHO, with full-text feeds and loads of ajaxy goodness), and… Cuil. No I’m kidding about the last one. The third is Basecamp (the online project management service that keeps our RWW business on track and organized; maybe stretching to call it ‘exciting’, but as a business app it does the business).
Lachlan said that his favorite 3 things online were Twitter (www.twitter.com), Tumblr (www.tumblr.com) and Fire Eagle (www.fireeagle.yahoo.net).
I’m enjoying Jott, Twitter and Songza
Moderating comments…
Here’s how the New York Times moderates comments… Marci Alboher, NYT blogger, explains her responsibility — here is the Times’ official policy.
Spot The Dell Laptop…
Watching the Olympics the other night us Dellies couldn’t help but notice the Dells in use everywhere… Take a look at the judges at the Gymnastics… Umpires at the basketball…
Cool social media map
Love this diagram from over at Brian Solis’ blog and on Flickr.
The myth of the creative class
Really interesting post from Jeff Jarvis (hat tip to Stowe for the pointer). The concept of harnessing the power of community to make design and product choices more efficient is a brilliant notion – The Wisdom of Crowds put into practice. Love it.
The internet doesn’t make us more creative, I don’t think. But it does enable what we create to be seen, heard, and used. It enables every creator to find a public, the public he or she merits. And that takes creation out of the proprietary hands of the supposed creative class.
I’m not sure about the last sentence. The issue is you’ve got have the right product to begin with. And that’s where the creative class holds court. Using Ryz as an example – if the creative class didn’t design the sneaker, the masses wouldn’t get to color it. I could be splitting hairs, but for me creativity runs deeper than coloring in the spaces between lines. It doesn’t make the act less fun, or even useful. And, to Jeff’s point, technology and participation become points of differentiation:
The curmudgeons also argue that this level playing field is flooded with crap: a loss of taste and discrimination. I’ll argue just the opposite: Only the playing field is flat and to stand out one must now do so on merit – as defined by the public rather than the priests – which will be rewarded with links and attention. This is our link economy, our culture of links. It is a meritocracy, only now there are many definitions of merit and each must be earned.
