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March 16, 2008
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
It was with shock that I returned home from a night out last night to hear the news of Russell's passing. How terribly, terribly sad. Most of all for him, as he'd seemed buoyant, healthier, and content when I'd last seen him several months ago when he was in town - he was happy that work was busy and rewarding and was having fun with it but most of all was thrilled about how things were going with his girlfriend, Ellen.
I've known Russ for what seems like ages now (in a good way) though in fact it's only been about six or seven years since the early days of "commercial" blogging when he started working on various projects at and around Corante. He was a diligent, committed, and prolific journalist who had impressively and more ably than others been able to make the transition from the old-school way of doing things to the new. He had his quirks, as we all do, but I greatly valued that he was good-natured, collegial, reliable, quick to adopt, trustworthy, eager to learn, and earnest in his interest in helping others better understand what he wrote about.
He was also, it should be said, a kind and thoughtful soul and it was the rare conversation in which he didn't ask, with sincerity, about what he knew of my life, e.g. our new babe, and we didn't talk as seemingly old friends about our lives and respective paths. I can't say I knew him very well, of course, but in our half-dozen get-togethers over the years and dozens of conversations I got a good sense of the man: he cared about learning and sharing and his bearing was earnest and ego-less and we'll miss him for that and more.
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January 22, 2008
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
We wanted to let you know about a discount to New Comm Forum, the annual event event put on by our friends at the Society for New Communications Research. The conference, which runs from April 22-25, will feature many of the field's leading observers and is an important event for those looking, in the words of SNCR, to "better understand new communications tools, technologies and emerging modes of communication, and their effect on traditional media, professional communications, business, culture and society."
Check out the event's website and, if you're interested in attending, be sure to use the code supplied below for a special discount.
EARLY BIRD PRICING - NOW UNTIL FEB. 15th
NewComm Forum Conference - $995.
Pre-conference or post-conference session - $195.
SNCR Jam only - $75.
REGULAR PRICING - AFTER FEB. 15th
NewComm Forum Conference - $1095.
Pre-conference or post-conference session - $249.
SNCR Jam only - $75.
CORANTE READER DISCOUNTS
NewComm Forum Conference - save an additional $100
Use discount code: NCF08100
Pre-conference or post-conference session - save an additional $45.
Use discount code: NCF0845
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June 5, 2007
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
We've been remiss in letting you know about two new independent blogs we've helped launch in the past month or so.
The first - the ConversationHub - is a companion blog to Supernova 2007, the latest edition of Kevin Werbach's excellent conference on all things connected. As the conference site says: "Supernova examines the effects of an increasingly connected world on business, life, and public policy. As disparate physical and social networks link with one another, a new societal network is rapidly evolving... The New Network is greater than the sum of its parts. It challenges us to re-create everything from the software and hardware we use...to the business models we employ...to the information and entertainment we encounter...to the ways we work and play."
Visit the ConversationHub and you'll find several dozen leading thinkers and doers, led by a few notable ringleaders, weighing in on the themes and trends of the day in technology and business. We encourage you to tune in - feel free to comment and even suggest topics and ideas for posts.
The second blog - Mobile Messaging 2.0 - convenes about a dozen top observers of the mobile messaging space for an intense discussion of the industry and where it's headed. Among its contributors are leading commentators, journalists and players in the field - tune in and you'll find them touching on topics such as mobile device design, messaging platforms, market pressures, user-generated content, interface design, and much, much more.
Also, if you visit the site, which is sponsored by Airwide Solutions, this week, you'll find live coverage and commentary from Global Messaging 2007, to which several of our contributors have traveled to hear about the latest developments from a broad spectrum of the industry's players and providers.
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April 17, 2007
Posted by Francois Gossieaux
[Update: the Enterprise 2.0 Rave is now a virtual event - for info on the updated program check out the Rave's website.]
We are producing an Enterprise 2.0 RAVE at the Hudson Hotel in NYC on May 21-22, 2007 for Longworth Venture Partners - the organizers of the event.
If you are a practitioner looking at deploying web 2.0 tools within your enterprise or actively working on Enterprise 2.0 pilot projects, you should not miss this 24 hour brainstorming session specifically designed for practitioners like yourself.
Some of the leading thinkers in the space will be moderating and facilitating rich discussions - including HBS prof. Andrew McAfee, Euan Semple, Jenny Ambrosek, Jerry Bowles, Bill Ives, Kathleen Gilroy, Jevon McDonald, Joe McKendrick, Jim McGee, John Musser, Susan Scrupski, and Jason Wood.
If you plan to attend you will get a $250 discount if you use the discount code "bloggers" (without quotes) when registering as a Friend of Corante.
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April 6, 2007
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
We're helping out on another independent group-blog in the vein of the FASTforwardblog we shepherded into existence late last year. This one, backed by World Congress in support of their conference series and called the World Health Care Blog, convenes leading bloggers from across the health care industry for an intense, centralized discussion of innovation in health care.
Amongst those participating: Derek Lowe, whose excellent blog on drug discovery In the Pipeline just celebrated its fifth birthday; longtime health care blogger Matthew Holt of the The Health Care Blog; new blogger but longtime industry consultant and executive Vince Kuraitis; strategy consultant David Williams of the Health Business Blog; consultant, epidemiologist, and self-described "health journalism groupie" Emily DeVoto of The Antidote; and Tony Chen, lead blogger at Hospital Impact and a business developer for a Chicago area, Northwestern-affiliated hospital and research group.
Check the World Health Care Blog out and please spread the word to those who'd find it of interest. For those interested in health care, you might also check out the conference the blog's a companion to: The World Health Care Congress which runs from April 22-24 in Washington, DC. Amongst those speaking: Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel; Lee Scott, CEO of Wal-Mart; Phil Bredesen, the governor of Tennessee; Michael Critelli, CEO of Pitney-Bowes; Catherine Baase, Global Director of Health Services for Dow Chemical; Adam Bosworth, VP at Google; James Goodnight, CEO of SAS; Janet Marchibroda, CEO of eHealth Initiative and Foundation; and more than a hundred other notable executives, industry players, and policymakers.
Tune in to the blog and you'll also find comprehensive reporting from last week's Barcelona conference where Lloyd Davis real-time blogged many of the sessions including the keynote delivered by Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist and banker who won last year's Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering work in micro-lending (see this clip for the gist of his comments including insights on his own country's health care initiatives).
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February 20, 2007
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
We've been remiss in pointing you to an independent blog we launched in January that's getting a lot of attention: The Future of Communities. The group blog, co-authored by a growing roster of respected commentators in the field, digs deep into the evolving discussion about community building and management and related marketing efforts in the run up to Community 2.0 Conference.
The conference, chaired by Corante president Francois Gossieaux, is the inaugural event for "forward-thinking organizations that recognize the need of harnessing the network effect of community to make smarter, faster, and better business decisions." Amongst those participating in the conference, slated for March 12-14 in Las Vegas: John Hagel, author and consultant; Elizabeth Churchill of Yahoo; Shawn Gold of MySpace; Peter Friedman of Liveworld; Tara Hunt of Citizen Agency; George Jaquette of Intuit; and many others. Find out more here.
As for the blog, well known contributors include Tara Hunt, David Churbuck, Chris Carfi, Chris Heuer, Lois Kelly, Jake McKee, Kathleen Gilroy, Francois, and others.
Recent posts discuss "social browsing", the "meming of life", "collaboration networks", measuring the effect of communities at a macro level, households as the "ultimate in micro-communities", community management "code of ethics", and Kathleen Gilroy's interview with Jay Bryant of TV Guide about its user communities. More here...
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Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
 The FASTforward blog, which was initially launched as a companion to FAST's early February conference, continues to hum along with ongoing coverage of Enterprise 2.0 issues, challenges, and developments. Tune in and you'll find numerous reports from the conference itself, including coverage of the keynotes and panel discussions which included the likes of Ray Lane, Chris Anderson, John Battelle, Tim O'Reilly and many others.
Also, a pointer for those interested in the several dozen video interviews conducted by David
Weinberger and Kathleen Gilroy over the course of the conference.
Interviews by David Weinberger, in no particular order:
- Chris Anderson, editor of Wired and author of "The Long Tail"
- John Battelle, author, blogger, editor, media entrepreneur
- Jeanette Borzo of the Economist Intelligence Unit
- Matthew Brown, a senior analyst at Forrester Research
- John Markus Lervik, founder and CEO of FAST
- Carl Frappaolo of the Delphi Group
- Stephen Gallagher, Senior Director at Accenture
- Susan Feldman, IDC
- Dorothea Herrey of Dow Jones Consumer Media Group
- Bill Inmon of Inmon Data Systems
- Dan Keldsen of the Delphi Group
- Zia Zaman, FAST
- Lydia Loizides, former exec of tech and emerging media at Interpublic Media
- Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business School
- Tom Mandel of ConnectBeam
- Kathleen Gilroy, Otter Group
- Hadley Reynolds, FAST
- Jim McGee of the Huron Consulting Group
- Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Media
- James Robertson of Step Two Designs
- Michael Schrage, MIT
- Euan Semple, consultant, formerly of BBC
- Sandeep Swadia, FAST
- David Watson, Digital Media at Disney/ABC
Interviews by Kathleen Gilroy:
- "The meaning of search"
- a montage of statements by conference participants on the meaning and future of search
- Tim O'Reilly:
- Web 2.0 is defined by building systems that get better as much people use them. This means asymmetric competition in the information business. But there are opportunities to work in the global information commons. O’Reilly hosted a panel where he interviewed the search person from Reed and the head of business development for Fast. They discussed producing more contextual search and looking at federated search where the data coming from multiple customers was combined and made available.
- Andrew McAfee:
- Enterprise 2.0 is about new forms of collaboration and unlike previous enterprise computing efforts, e20 enables the expression and capture of judgement.
- E20 will not happen just by building new technologies and expecting people to use them. It is hard to get e20 to become part of the DNA of a company and it will require sustained management and leadership through coaching, rewards and incentives, leadership, and building a culture that is attuned to the benefits of working in this new way.
- E20 is very different from groupware (Notes, Sharepoint) in that it is very unstructured. Groupware often failed because it demanded too many rules and the terms of interaction were defined from the start.\
- Ray Lane on the "interpersonal enterprise"
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December 20, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Wanted to let people know about a blog we've just launched: the FASTforward Blog.
Conceived and produced by Corante and sponsored by Fast Search & Transfer as a companion to their upcoming conference, the blog convenes, for at least the next two months, a top flight crew of leading thinkers and doers for an active and spirited discussion on the next generation of enterprise software applications and issues.
Amongst our contributors are many familiar faces from the enterprise-related blog space including Bill Ives, Jim McGee, Joe McKendrick, Jerry Bowles, Rod Boothby, Kathleen Gilroy, Euan Semple, George Dearing and others.
In addition to the blog, we'll be running interviews, podcasts, and Skypecasts with leading figures from the field as well as with some of the speakers and participants who'll be involved in the event.
Visit the blog, where the discussion is well underway, at FASTforwardblog.com. And click here, to find out more about FAST's FASTforward conference - speakers include Tim O'Reilly, Chris Anderson, John Battelle, Ray Lane, and many other leading players in the Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 space.
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November 7, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Flackster's back after an extended break with more wisdom and witticism from Michael O'Connor Clarke. The blog's focus again: the wonderful world of PR and how it's having to adjust to the new landscape of social media.
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October 4, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Renee Hopkins Callahan and gang are blogging the day's great "storytelling" sessions. Tune in to the Innovation Hub for the latest. Speakers so far have included Tim Westergren of Pandora, Jane Fulton Suri of Ideo, and Larry Keeley of Doblin. More to come...
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October 2, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Renee Hopkins Callahan will lead a merry band of bloggers later this week in a blogjam on our Innovation Hub that accompanies the Collaborative Innovation Summit which will be held on October 3rd and 4th in Providence, RI.
The conference, hosted by WSJ tech columnist Walt Mossberg and TED founder Richard Saul Wurman brings together a knockout group of innovators including: Segway inventor Dean Kamen, Titanic Discoverer Bob Ballard, Fast Company co-founder Bill Taylor, IDEO’s Director of Human Factors Design and Research Jane Fulton Suri, InnoCentive co-founder Alph Bingham, MIT Media Lab Biomechatronics Director Hugh Herr architect/artist Michael Singer, and network guru Peter Gloor.
Among the bloggers who'll be reporting from the front lines: Joyce Wycoff, Jeffrey Phillips, Steve Hardy, Boris Pluskowski, Lois Kelly of Bloghound, and Francois Gossieaux. Find out more from Renee's post and be sure to tune in later this week.
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June 22, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
MarketingSherpa has released their nominations for the top blogs and podcsts on marketing-related topics. Drawn from a list of more than a thousand nominations submitted by readers, the final list includes quite a few from the extended Corante family and apparently drew more than 100,000 votes in just its first day.
To find out more and weigh in yourself, head over to Marketing Sherpa. The deadline's the 26th so make sure you get your votes in now!
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June 15, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Be sure to tune in to Future Tense where new blog ringleader Giovanni Rodruiguez has kicked off a year-long survey of companies that are successfully implementing and supporting emergent behavior in the enterprise using social-media tools. The first to be profiled: SAP's Apollo Project.
Explains Giovanni: "Led by former VC Jeff Nolan, Apollo is a competitive strategy group at SAP Labs, the enterprise-software giant... Nolan and his group are using a mix of social media tools -- blogs, RSS, and of course, wikis -- to better compete with Oracle, SAP's chief rival..."
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June 13, 2006
Posted by Francois Gossieaux
While wearing the many different hats of MC, coordinator, wifi guy, podcast traffic cop, and many others at the 2006 Innovative Marketing Conference, I was not able to take good notes of the great discussions that took place at the conference. Thankfully, many others did, and I will try to capture most of them here. I will also elaborate on specific sessions/discussions in future posts.
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June 9, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
We're in the closing hours of the conference and should point you to the reams of great content we've captured for posterity:
A Fast Company Blogjam for which a team of bloggers have been reporting on the proceedings. Also tune in there for pointers to a great series of podcasts by Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson.
Heath Row and his Squidoo team have created a super set of lenses on the major themes and sessions of the conference.
The expanding Flickr set of the entire event.
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June 2, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Larry Weber, PR Guru, author and founder of the W2 Group, and Lois Kelly, interactive marketing pioneer and partner at Foghound, will discuss the future of the marketing department in a Skypecast at noon EST today. You can find more information about the upcoming Skypecast here. To join - simply go the Skypecast url at noon and log in with your Skype account. If you do not have a Skype account, it's easy, sign up for a free account, it will take you less than 2 minutes. If for some reason you do not have a microphone, you can also ask your questions by joining the chat room at http://events.corante.com/imc/chat.php.
If you missed some of the Skypecasts that we ran leading up to our Marketing Innovation conference next week, you can go to the event's home page and look for MP3 recordings in the sidebar.
If you have not registered for the 2006 Marketing Innovation Conference at Corante yet, please do so soon! If you need any assistance - contact francois AT corante DOT com.
[Tags: skypecast larry weber lois kelly marketing corante]
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May 15, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
The deadline for the early-bird price for the Innovative Marketing Conference is here! Sign up today to take advantage of it and reserve your spot.
Again, the two-day conference is designed to help individuals and companies better understand the rapidly evolving marketing landscape and arm attendees with real world case studies, practical tools, and actionable learnings that help their companies more effectively market themselves, build their brands, and grow.
Amongst the many great participants who will be joining us: Russ Klein, CMO of Burger King; Craig Newmark, founder, Craigslist; John Hagel, independent management consultant and author; Larry Weber, founder and Chairman of the W2 Group, author; and Douglas Rushkoff, author, teacher, and documentarian.
Find out more and register today!
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May 12, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Update: we had previously posted the time wrong for Bernd Schmitt's Skypecast today. It's *11 am EST*, not 12 pm EST as previously stated. For info on logging in and participating see this page.
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May 9, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
We're going to be running a series of Skypecast conversations with participants in our upcoming Innovative Marketing Conference, scheduled for June 8-9 in NYC. In the Skypecasts, open to all to attend, we'll be interviewing speakers and facilitators who will be at the conference as well as allowing audience members to ask questions. We encourage all to attend, particularly attendees of the conference who can help shape the event by presenting ideas and suggestions for the event.
Upcoming Skypecasts:
- Professor Bernd Schmitt - Executive Director, Center on Global Brand Leadership
5/12 at 11 EST [We had the wrong time previously]
In this inaugural Skypecast we'll chat with Bernd Schmitt, from the Columbia Business School, for a general discussion on the future of marketing and the topics we'll be touching on at the Innovative Marketing Conference.
Craig Newmark - founder of craigslist
5/16 at 11 am EST
We'll sit down with Craig Newmark for a wide-ranging discussion of the threats and opportunities related to consumer generated content.
See this page for more info and links to the Skypecast pages.
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May 3, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
We've added a slew of new speakers to the roster for our upcoming conference on Innovative Marketing.
Amongst them:
- Craig Newmark, founder, Craigslist
- John Hagel, independent management consultant and author
- Larry Weber, founder and Chairman of the W2 Group, author
- Douglas Rushkoff, author, teacher, and documentarian
- Russ Klein, CMO of Burger King
- Shawn Gold, SVP, head of marketing and content, MySpace.com
Find out more and sign up soon to take advantage of our early-bird special for what's shaping up to be a knockout event.
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April 21, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
 Paul Williams, in his first post as co-editor of the Innovation Hub, tries an interesting experiment - a mindmap of the ideas and themes that the Hub's contributors are writing and thinking about. Among the topics on their mind: risk-taking, technology and its impact on innovation, leadership, customer experience, blogging and much more.
Also worth catching: Renee Hopkins Callahan, a longtime Corante contributor and the co-editor of the Innovation Hub, on the idea of Chief Innovation Officers and knowledge management tools.
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April 12, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Our next hub is live! Today we start rolling out our next "hub", this one on innovation. Edited by two well established and highly respected observers of the practice of innovation - Renee Hopkins Callahan and Paul Williams, the Corante Innovation Hub showcases the writing and thinking of many of the blogosphere's most insightful commentators on innovation, creativity, and marketing and complements our upcoming June conference on marketing innovation.
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March 22, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
We should have mentioned yesterday that the new homepage design is just a start and the foundation for other elements we'll be adding back to the page, including graphic elements, means through which we can highlight articles by our contributors as well as comments made by readers, and more. Please send feedback and suggestions to hyltonj@gmail.com with the title "Homepage Feedback".
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March 21, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
As you can see, we've just rolled out a new homepage design. Its intent: to give a better sense of the richness and volume of commentary and coverage passing through Corante every day. It also does a much better job of illustrating what's happening at the Corante Hubs, an exciting new direction from Corante we've been tinkering with for the past few months and will now start promoting aggressivcely. Powered by the Corante Network, a growing and impressive collection of some of the blogosphere's brightest minds, the Hubs are designed to...
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March 9, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Civic Minded, a new blog on the broad impact the Internet is having on politics, advocacy, and civic engagement, launches today. Authored by four leading observers of the topic, Civic Minded will explore the practical applications, real-world lessons, and tactical issues that are changing the way campaigns are run, people of like-minded interests organize, and groups take action.
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February 8, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Suw Charman's reporting live in Strange Attractor from the Future of Web Apps, a conference that's convened many leading lights of the Web 2.0 world as well as some 800 others for a day-long discussion of emerging and future Web apps.
Among those whose remarks Suw's shared so far: Joshua Schacter of del.icio.us, Tom Coates of Yahoo!, Cal Henderson of Flickr.
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January 27, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Kevin Anderson - veteran journalist, BBC producer, blogger, and podcaster - joins Suw Charman at Strange Attractor , shares his belief that journalism is storytelling at its core, and reveals that his personal goal is to become "the Edward Murrow of the Internet". Says Kevin: "A friend of mine said that he worried that blogging had stopped the development of digital storytelling in its tracks. I initially agreed with him at blogging and social media are driving digital storytelling online more in the last few years than we professionals had done in the last decade." More from Kevin and Suw over at Strange Attractor.
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January 5, 2006
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Carl succumbs and joins the cat-blogging masses in a post about his pet Tino: "The evolution of cats has been a tough nut to crack. While it's no great mental feat to tell the difference between Tino and a tiger, it's not so easy to figure out exactly which species are most closely related to domesticated cats and which are more distant relatives. The oldest cat-like fossils date back 35 million years ago, and since then they've rapidly evolved into many lineages that have spread across all the continents save Antarctica."
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December 8, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Dennis Kennedy pulls together recent articles and resources he and his Between Lawyers colleagues, as well as others, have published or contributed to which explain and discuss how Web 2.0 services might be used by the law profession.
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November 29, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Today we go live with a major new initiative and important new direction from Corante that has us reimagining what Corante is and will be. Months in the making and informed by years spent playing and working in this space, the Corante Hubs and the corollary Corante Network have Corante partnering with scores (and eventually hundreds) of the blogosphere's most interesting and insightful commentators on specific topics in a loosely joined editorial offering (and business model) we believe will keep readers up to date and ahead of the curve while saving them the time we all find so scarce these days. Our first areas of coverage: web, media, and marketing.
...continue reading.
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November 15, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
We're in session at our Symposium for Social Architecture - tune in at the event's blog.
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November 14, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Danah, in introducing several recent articles she's written on MySpace: "I’ve been thinking a lot about how anti-MySpace propaganda has been rooted in the culture of fear. Given that youth play a critical, but different, role in social software, i suspect that folks might be interested in how MySpace is getting perceived as a scary, scary place..." More here; also, be sure to catch the comments.
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November 11, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Check out today's Science Journal by Sharon Begley for frequent mentions of Corante contributor Derek Lowe and his blog In the Pipeline. The subject of the column: the limitations of DNA-based drugs.
Also worth noting: Matt May, a contributor on our podcasting blog, is speaking today at the Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference on the panel discussion: Music in Podcasts: The Future of Music Licensing. More info here.
And still more: tune in, if you can, to Blawgthink - a two-day event getting underway today in Chicago that's co-organized by Dennis Kennedy of our Between Lawyers blog.
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October 20, 2005
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October 18, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Join Corante contributor Liz Lawley and others in Seattle on Wednesday evening for “Two Degrees of Separation - How Social Network Technology is Connecting Us for Money, Jobs, and Love." More info about the MIT Enterprise Forum dinner event at Many-to-Many.
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A post by Carl Zimmer, who will be appearing in Pittsburgh and New York City in the coming weeks to discuss the intersection of blogging and science writing, discusses the gaping holes in arguments made by creationsists who've taken issue with his writings on evolution.
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October 13, 2005
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Dennis Kennedy explains the appearance of the mysterious "Lawyer X". Also worth noting: a quick thought from Denise Howell: "I expect people do this a lot, I just noticed it this morning and realized I do it all the time: thinking in search. What it is: absently stringing together queries in your head that you need to plug in the next time you're in front of a search engine, in order to get things done in work and life."
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October 7, 2005
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Corante contributor and neurotech expert Zack Lynch has partnered with Japan BioToday to translate his monthly newsletter Neurotech Insights into Japanese. The latest issues covers the schizophrenia market. More info from Zack...
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October 6, 2005
Posted by Francois Gossieaux
I know that many of you have been waiting for the final program for the Symposium on Social Architecture, which we are producing in partnership with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School this November 14th and 15th.
The program is out and published and as they say when you waited long for something that comes out real good - it was worth the wait!
The Symposium will investigate the emerging social architecture—the convergence of social software, social media and social computing—that is a critical element of the next generation Web. We will explore the implications for business and beyond of these technologies and their application. And we will conclude the program with a fascinating case study In Web-based civics: Katrina and Recovery 2.0 - looking at how the social Web can support better planning and response to disasters: hurricanes, tsunamis, or terrorism.
[Technorati Tags: ssa social web social architecture web 2.0]
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October 5, 2005
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Tune in to Rebuilding Media for real-time reporting from Dorian Benkoil on today's talks and panel discussions at the Media Center's We Media conference. Among those speaking: Al Gore, Craig Newmark, and Andrew Heyward.
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October 3, 2005
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September 22, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Congratulations to Corante contributor Carl Zimmer for being named a finalist by the National Academy of Sciences for the Newspaper/Magazine/Internet category of its 2005 Communications Awards..
It is, as Carl notes, another step forward for the mainstream perception of blogs: "It’s nice to see that blogs are taking seriously by the likes of the National Academy of Sciences." It's also not the first coup for Carl's blogging: earlier this year he was named the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s 2004 Science Journalism Award. If you're not familiar with Carl's blog The Loom, please take this opportunity to tune in - he's one of the most talented and perceptive science writers around.
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Tune in to the first installment - "Podcasting on Windows: Introduction to Podcasting" - of our new ongoing series on podcasting today at 1pm EST. Hosted by Stowe Boyd and Greg Narain, today's show provides an intro to podcasting on Windows with discussion of equipment, audio software and standards, formatting and editing, preparing for download, and promotion. Greg will also provide detailed examples from his well-known Beercasting show.
For more information on the show and info on how to tune in see this page. [Also, the show's sponsored by GoToMeeting - visit the page above and you'll find info on how to get a free trial for 30 days.]
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September 16, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Suw shares her notes from the Our Social World conference that took place last week in the UK. Among the speakers whose remarks she passes along: Ben Hammersley, Simon Phipps, Tom Coates, Johnnie Moore, Lee Bryant, Loic le Meur, Euan Semple, Julian Bond, Simon Gryce, Max Neiderhofer, and Ross Mayfield. Tune in here...
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September 14, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Can't resist calling attention to a BBC article on the future of newspapers that just turned up in our newsreader that includes a mention of Corante's forebear and inspiration, here called The Corante. The publication, which the article notes was published in London in 1621, is widely believed to be world's "first English language private" newspaper.
For a little more history on Corante's name, check out this apparent encyclopedia entry on the history of newspapers: "The oldest surviving newspaper actually printed in England appeared on September 24, 1621, under the characteristically long title: 'Corante, or weekely newes from Italy, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Bohemia, France and the Low Countreys.'"
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September 9, 2005
Posted by Francois Gossieaux
This one has been brewing for awhile, but it's now official.
We are very excited to announce that we will produce the Symposium on Social Architecture (SSA) in partnership with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School.
If you read the Berkman's center mission: "The Berkman Center's mission is to explore and understand cyberspace, its development, dynamics, norms, standards, and need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions," you will understand why we think there is a great fit in working with them on this event.
To learn more about the Symposium, scheduled for November 14-15 at Harvard Law School, and register, visit its website. And to learn more about the Berkman Center, visit their website. Expect more announcements around the event in the next couple of weeks.
We also started receiving our first registrations - so register fast as we have very limited seating.
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September 8, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Join Corante and the leading lights of the social software and social media space for an intense discussion of the overarching themes and underlying technologies that are driving the massive uptake of people-centered, user-driven, individual-connecting applications, communities, content, and services.
The Symposium on Social Architecture, to be hosted at Harvard University on November 14th and 15th, will host many of the movement’s leading developers, entrepreneurs, thinkers, and analysts in a series of lively panels, interviews, talks, and informal events designed to dig deep into the issues driving the ‘social revolution’. Among those who will be participating: Clay Shirky, David Weinberger, Stowe Boyd, Jeff Jarvis, Marc Canter, Mary Hodder, Kevin Marks, and Ross Mayfield.
To find out more and register (space is limited so sign up now), click through to the website for the Symposium on Social Architecture.
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September 7, 2005
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Dorian Benkoil, a longtime journalist, editor, and media executive and consultant has joined the expanding cast of Rebuilding Media as a contributor. More on Dorian here...
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September 2, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Derek Lowe, in signing off for the Labor Day weekend: "It’s easy to forget that scientific research is (like many other things) one of the brightly colored dabs of paint that make up the very thin veneer we call civilization.
"There’s a lot of stuff underneath, and a lot of it is ugly. It’s the Hobbesian state of nature down there, a struggle for food and water and territory. Being able to think all day for a living - well, that’s a huge outlier exception to the way the vast majority of human beings have had to live their lives. What’s happened to New Orleans has been a terrible reminder of this truth. It’s taken just a few days for the Lord of the Flies to become mayor in a special election there, and the same thing could happen anywhere else on Earth.
"Let’s hope that it never happens to us. Be grateful that you have the weekend to enjoy in peace and sanity, and consider giving something to help pull those people out of the water, out of the mud, and back to the dry land of the 21st century..."
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September 1, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Marty Schwimmer, whose Between Lawyers colleague Ernie Svenson lives in New Orleans and has been reporting on his experiences and reactions on his blog, took it upon himself to investigate how authorities might come by the additional helicopters that are needed to plug the breached levees. His findings here...
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August 30, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Vin Crosbie introduces the newest addition to the Rebuilding Media roster of commentators on the disruptive forces at work in the media industry: Ben Compaine. Ben is a consultant, entrepreneur, policy wonk, academic, and author of numerous influential books and articles including "Who Owns the Media: Competition and Concentration in the Mass Media Industry", winner of the Robert Picard Award for Best New Book in Media Economics.
Ben has been studying the media industry and its impact on society, culture and regulation since 1978, is a noted expert in communications theory, policy, and practice, and has published extensively about media ownership and competition. We're thrilled he's aboard and point you to Rebuilding Media where his blogging will begin shortly...
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August 24, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Ross Mayfield, longtime contributor to Many-to-Many and co-founder and CEO of Socialtext, has announced the release of its Wikiwyg, an open source what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor for wikis you can read more about here.
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Stowe addresses, in this post at Get Real, the confusion that's arisen about the Portland, OR event on podcasting that Corante is no longer associated with.
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August 18, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Stowe, in a piece entitled "Social Architecture: The Foundation of The Blogosphere", lays out his latest thinking on the emerging infrastructure of the Social Web and refers to the event Corante will be hosting in Boston on the topic in November.
Says Stowe, in wrapping up the post: "The continued growth of the Blogosphere will make its social architecture even more of an global asset that it has already proven to be. We will continue to witness enormous technological innovation, with dozens of new Flickrs, Technoratis, and De.licio.uses appearing in the next year. As more writing (and other media, like audio, video, and photography) is generated on an ever widening range of topics, more and more machine-generated analysis of human social gestures, and the gestures themselves, will play an increasingly important role in making sense of the Web. Without these techniques, the explosion of the Blogosphere will overwhelm our traditional information-based approaches.
"The criticality of these activities will cause friction on technological, societal, and economic levels, and as so those of us who are most interested and involved in these discussions may have a significant impact on the future direction of the socialized Web. The planned Symposium is intended to bring together thought leaders, practitioners, and entrepreneurs in the arena and to explore the various threads making up the discussion about social architecture."
Read it all here...
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August 11, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Neurotech expert and longtime Corante contributor at Brain Waves, Zack Lynch has announced the debut of Neurotech Insights, a paid, semi-monthly newsletter covering the neurotech industry. Geared towards investors, analysts and industry execs, Neurotech Insights surveys market developments, reports on clinical trials, analyzes recent deals, and profiles interesting companies and individuals in what he says is a $100 billion market.
Learn more about the report from Zack himself and be sure to catch his offer at the end of his post for how to get a discount on the annual subscription rate.
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August 10, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Don't miss danah boyd's post from a few days ago on patterns she's observed in an analysis of Technorati data on a random selection of 500 blogs. Among her observations: - When bloggers link to another blog, it is more likely to be same gender.
- Blogrolls seem to be very common on politically-oriented blogs and always connect to blogs with similar political views (or to mainstream media).
- Few LiveJournals have a blogroll but almost all have a list of friends one click away. This is not considered by search tools that look only at the front page.
- Links indicate no weight, no valence, no attributes. I know Technorati has asked folks to indicate positive/negative in their links or to use nofollow, but few do this. And even if people did, that kind of articulation is a social disaster
- On LJ and Xanga, there’s a gender division in blogrolls whereby female bloggers have mostly female “friends” and vice versa.
Also be sure to tune in to the dozens of comments and trackbacks that expand on danah's points.
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August 3, 2005
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August 2, 2005
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We've made the decision to postpone the Podcast Hotel. It was a tough decision given how much time and energy we've put into it but ultimately the right one given recent logistical concerns re: the venue and location.
We remain excited about what we'd cooked up and are still committed to creating a breakout event both in terms of format and content, but are afraid we're going to have to wait till a later date to put it on. We're in the process of contacting all associated parties and those who've registered so far. If you have any questions re your registration, the affiliate program, sponsorship, or anything else please contact us at ph@corante.com.
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July 28, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Some Corante news to share: we've added Francois Gossieaux, a new executive and partner, to the mix. We've been working with Francois, who has also invested in the company, on a consulting basis over the past few months, mutually decided to consumate the flirtation recently, and already consider him an integral and invaluable part of the team.
Amongst the many things he brings to the table: a shared vision of where things are headed and opportunity lies, a wealth of knowledge about this rapidly evolving social media space, lots of ideas, an ability to think strategically while also executing on the day-to-day, and, most important, integrity and passion. We've already benefitted greatly from his coming aboard and look forward to all working closely together to help Corante realize its full potential.
His title, though we're not big fans of them in general: CMO and VP of business development. His charge: to grow our sales operation, to develop and deepen partnerships, and to lead our marketing efforts. As well as to help us think creatively about how to support Corante - our contributors and community - and prepare for the other side of this paradigm shift that's well underway.
We've got lots of new offerings on the way, look forward to telling you about them in the weeks and months ahead, and are thrilled Francois is aboard to help push Corante forward. Interested in partnering with Corante? Francois is your man - email him at francois-at-corante.com.
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July 25, 2005
Posted by Hylton Jolliffe
Don't miss our newest blog -- authored by Vin Crosbie and Bob Cauthorn and called Rebuilding Media -- that will take a hard look at the media industry and the forces and factors that are driving the disruptive change already well underway.
Vin and Bob love the media business and the craft of journalism but both have harsh words for an industry they see as far too slow to respond to the rapidly changing economics, audience dynamics, and general trends that are radically reshaping the media landscape.
From Vin's opening post:
"...We expect that many of today's new media might be turn out to be
merely short-lived steps towards even better, newer media. We won't be
surprised if different, newer, and unexpected usages may soon be found
for today's new media. We believe that we're perhaps only one-third to
one-half way through the fundamental change now underway that might
take decades; and that better, newer new media will be developed..."
"Whatever the future holds, we know now that old media are doomed to be
replaced by new media. The declines in newspaper and magazine
readerships, in radio listenerships, in television viewerships, and in
cinema visitorships are obvious, well predate the rise of the
Internet, and are accelerating..."
Read on and tune in for more of the same at Rebuilding Media.
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