Dave Morin calls the trend: Goodbye (free) Blog. Hello (paid) Letter

Pay $3.99/month for premium quality?

Subscription plans seem so much hassle, what I’d really like is to pay for attention. Valuing attention could be as simple as a cell phone plan that charges by the second based on how many other people recommend the content.

Spending attention would properly compensate the Dave Morin for Premium Content, but not lock me into a subscription.

[I’ve subscribed to FT.com for 8 years, for the reasons Dave mentions].  

Ethnography in virtual worlds

Charlene Li -  Exec’s can now orchestrate at never before scale via social communication tools. (same theme as John Hagel). 

John Hagel III on proactive propositions @ TEDxBayArea

(via lwu)

Sociobiology helps answer the really hard questions…nice post

davidlok:

“If our neurons weren’t such lousy processors and we didn’t need 100 billion of them massively interconnected in order to make a clever brain out of such lousy parts, then we wouldn’t have such a long childhood,” Linden says.

And without that long childhood, he says, evolution wouldn’t have equipped us with the force that bonds parents together to protect their children.

“We wouldn’t have love,” Linden says.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129027124

Business and Social Technologies start to converge - Facebook Questions, Wibiya & Social CRM: Social Media Examiner TV

As EdView says…. Right Product Experience. Full on exhilaration (beats being boring).

lwu:

The Apple Hierarchy of Needs | Amir Khella

Peter Norvig explains probability modelling. Peter gave a similar talk at Parc, covering how Google Translate works by overlapping segments of results and probability to improve the translation model. During beta the translated results can be voted on / and improved by real people. Combining big data sets and human tuning seems to simplify and improve algorithms results faster than waiting for an artificial intelligence.