Innovation Communities

Business & Economics
| 09/15/2009 | Jeff DeChambeau

Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Index

In previous posts I’ve written about efforts to develop scorecards and ratings for companies and individual products. These efforts try to quantify the environmental and social costs associated with production so that consumers can make …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 09/09/2009 | Jeff DeChambeau

Hegeling for the Economic Center of Society: The Internet vs. The Financial System

The idea that most captured my thinking while at school was Hegel’s process of History. Think of History as a marketplace of ideas that happens over time. At the highest level there are competing approaches …   Read more

Technology & Media
| 09/08/2009 | Naumi Haque

Mad Men and the executive assistant 2.0

I was watching the AMC show Mad Men over the weekend and it occurred to me that if I had my position as a knowledge worker in an organization 40 years ago, I’d probably have …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 08/24/2009 | Jeff DeChambeau

From the big screen to the small screen: Tarantino, YouTube, and copyright reform

I saw Quentin Tarantino’s new flick, Inglorious Basterds, on Friday night. It was great — ‘Pure Tarantino’ as the kids say. It struck me as a combination of Tarantino’s earlier work, Pulp Fiction, and Tim …   Read more

Technology & Media
| 08/20/2009 | Naumi Haque

The digital identity divide

If you haven’t conducted this experiment yet, visit the MIT Personas project and type your name into the search field. What comes out is a visual representation of your digital self. As noted on the …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 08/04/2009 | Naumi Haque

The collaboration box score

A few weeks ago I asked what the NBA could teach us about measuring collaboration.  As a follow-up, I thought it might be neat to think about the elements that would make up someone’s collaboration …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 07/31/2009 | Jeff DeChambeau

This Revolution Will Not Be Monetized

A few days ago this video, “JK Wedding Entrance Dance,” cropped up online: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0] I’m no fan, but the mainstream appeal is clear: the video has almost 13,000,000 views. I’ll allow Wired.com to explain what …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 07/22/2009 | Jeff DeChambeau

Introducing Ameritocracy's Insight on Wikinomics

As you may have noticed, Wikinomics.com has a new feature. It’s an in-text feedback system called Insight, and had a soft-launch late last week (see the persistent bar at the footer of the page). Already …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 07/18/2009 | Naumi Haque

Social network analysis: Cool tools from cool dudes

Okay, so neither Charles Armstrong nor Vinicius Vacanti are really “dudes” in the Jeff Bridges, “The Dude abides” sense of the word – in fact, far from it. Armstrong is the founder and CEO of …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 07/16/2009 | Jeff DeChambeau

Where's my 'dislike' facebook button already?

This morning I opened up facebook, skimmed my feed, and saw that a friend from high school had posted a video that made an argument that was (in my estimate) intellectually dishonest — and a …   Read more