According to the current Business Week magazine, They're Web sites anyone can edit -- and they could transform Corporate America in the article Something Wiki This Way Comes

About Time! :-)

A former Microsoft employee has written editorial for the Seattle Times that says addiction to Windows revenue, mediocre products, and missed opportunities could doom Seattle’s most successful company.

Nothing I'd enjoy more. :-)

There's a new book called The Wisdom of Crowds

The book's premise is that "large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future."

Though not mentioned on the book's Web site, weblogs, wikis and RSS - perhaps more than any other tool - play a big role in enabling crowds to form and share opinions. This is why they will become a critical part of every PR campaign.

For more on the book, check out Surowiecki's essay in this month's Wired, a published excerpt excerpt.html and this author Q&A.

Interesting Concept.

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The cover story for this week's Newsweek says your next computer will be a mobile phone. :)

Please! Read this article for the full story, but imagine a PayPal credit and payment system with the ease of your cell phone. Put the tab on my mobile talks about SimPay which allows just that.

"Howard Rheingold": has written a piece for The Feature titled Will Location Blogging Take Off asks

Will location-tagged recommendation services emerge from the accumulated opinions of many consumers, Wikipedia style, instead of arriving in a lump like a commercial guidebook? Can time-and-place-tagged media aggregate into a historical record of your activities – and display the activities of any who choose to share their media stream?

Very interesting piece. Highly recommended!

PBS' Frontline is presenting a new progam titled The Way the Music Died It promises to really bring together all the facts about the perfect storm of events that helped to get the industry to this point.

GREAT Site! Dig around some and enjoy!

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