Emergent Business Networks

I write on Read Write Web. If you want to see my recent writing, click here. I tried for a while co-posting to this site, but it just became another item on the to do list. So the chronological thread here got lost.

I write on Read Write Web, not here, for the same reason Willy Sutton robbed banks. Thats where the money is. Or in the case of RWW, the audience. I hate talking to myself!

The experiment here is organizing my own thoughts into themes (aka “threads” if you are a techie) that matter to me. So I will link to other articles and add to the “post” over time. So I will be using WordPress not in its classic use case (chronological posting) but in what it has started to become, a more classic content management system for “persistent” data as well as news.

Eventually I would love to open up my “themes” pages for others to edit and contribute to. This would be a kind of personal Wiki or Knol. But I am “getting too far over my skis” and need to wait until WordPress has a plug-in for that.

If you really have interest in my early blathering, it is all here, I won’t delete them out of embarrassment. But if you want current stuff go here.

thought twitter was lame

thought i ought to be more open minded

resolved to try twitter

20 other resolutions got priority

forgot about twitter

saw twitter post about myself

thanks marshall

narcissism rules

twittered

watched people twitter

all week long on my cell phone

google “twitter is lame” and you get 2 pages

reading thomas hardy book

dropped hardy book

he is too prolix

oh no i have a.d.d

give me some ritalin

now

maybe a.d.d is a competitive advantage

the future wants to invite you

don’t be such a twit

what would ee cummings do with twitter?

SWITCH OFF CAPS LOCK

seesmic sees me?

oh mon dieu!

i want to know what 6 billion people are thinking

and i want it now

well maybe 6

how about 1?

call her

now

started long blog post about twitter

deleted long blog post about twttr

mdium is message

massage

now thats a good idea

let the cat out

cats r cute

yawn

While reading rather depressing news about B2B Media firms like Cygnus it is pretty wild to see news about a B2B Media firm raising $100bn in orders from institutional investors for its planned $1.5bn capital raising.

Yes, Alibaba is described as e-commerce not B2B Media, but what have they done other than build a database and add some software to enable better integration into user workflow? This is classic “rich data” and all B2B Media firms in the USA are sitting on similar goldmines.

Yes, as Warren Buffett pointed out on the same day, Chinese stocks are overvalued, but this is still a really good business even if you scaled back the valuation hype by about 90%.