Great Conversations
This page is a container for the good conversations, items and products that I encounter on the web.
Paul Krugman doing an “Authors at Google” session describing the reasons for the sub-prime mortgage situation of 2007.
A well written account of a blogger fired by CNN. It sums up the sheer bewilderment of the traditional media at the hands of new communications technology.
A presentation by Chris Anderson of Wired and “the long tail” fame. He introduces the concepts behind ‘the economics of free’. The trend for things like computing power and storage becoming close to free, how is it going to affect things? 45 mins.
Vilayanur Ramachandran entertainingly talks about the brain pathways that physically affect the ability of the mind.
Peter Merholz, from adaptivepath, on the product experience. A different way to look at solutions
Christopher Hitchens on his aversion to religion, and whether you agree with his observations or not, it is always healthy to review the worlds most important subject.
This is a great podcast from IT Conversations on Lou Carbone - Creating Customer Loyalty. There is a lot of wisdom in the explanation of value of the customer experience over the selling of products.
Classic Lawrence Lessig presentation, both content and style, on open source and copyright, about innovation. Good stuff.
Thought provoking post and comments about presence and availability from Alec Saunders of Iotum. A communications specific discussion of course.
This video is aimed to give advice to startups and innovators, from Guy Kawasaki, previously of Apple, now a VC . Brilliant for anyone starting up.
With a couple of weeks to go until the iPhone release, this article gives a fascinating background to the next potential Steve Jobs and Apple miracle.
Seth Godin video from TED about modern marketing, total class presentation.
Perhaps the best presentation I’ve ever seen - the style is excellent. Identity is also something that affects us all, just so many passwords! Dick Hardt rules ok.
