Stowe Boyd, President/COO of Corante, is a well-known media subversive, and an internationally recognized authority on real-time, collaborative and social technologies.
Guidelines for Social Design
- People are the living, breathing, beating heart of the universe
- Artifacts bind us together and define us
- Social interaction is bottom up, and so is everything else
- Social stuff absorbs and trumps domain stuff
The Best of Get Real
- Ray Ozzie and the Regrooving of Microsoft
- "He may be the right guy at the right time."
- Andrew Rasiej: More Than a Local Election
- "The move to public access wifi represents the start of Politics 2.0."
- Tom Coates on Socializing Radio
- "Radio will need to be socialized, but I am not sure that a broadcast medium like conventional radio can make that jump."
- New Last.fm: Social Architecture Drives Music Experience
- "This version of Last.fm is almost a perfect example of what I have been preaching about social architecture."
- Starting From Scratch: Social Design Is Hard
- "A few -- perhaps obvious and overgeneralized -- observations."
- Jeteye: Search As Shared Space
- "Now, we can collate a single web location with commentary, or collate a number of unintegrated bits of information together into a portfolio or dossier."
Recent Posts: Get Real
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Books I Recommend
- Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web
- By David Weinberger
- At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
- By Stuart Kauffman
- Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
- By Robin Dunbar
- Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
- By Robert Putnam
- The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business
- By Thomas Davenport and John Beck
