'"My friends, family and acquaintances are all on Facebook, where they add up to a bustling community I enjoy being part of. More than any particular feature that Mark Zuckerberg and company have cooked up, it’s the people in my life that make Facebook, well, Facebook. The conversations are less warm, personal and interesting. MORE >>

'Peter Suber points out that FaceBook, Yahoo, Elsevier and Yahoo have joined the NetChoice.org lobby that has issued a clarion call against open access that blurs the line between lies and gibberish. Peter blows the statements apart, leaving nothing but clean air and a whiff of ozone. But they have it all bollixed up. MORE >>

'Note: this is a synthesis of several previous posts. The death of middle class jobs ( Associated Press ): As software becomes even more sophisticated, victims are expected to include those who juggle tasks, such as supervisors and managers — workers who thought they were protected by a college degree. Today it is less than 10%. MORE >>

'Lately, I have been thinking quite a bit around the topic of Social / Open Business Transformation. Something completely different to what we may have experienced so far in the last three to four years on living social   for the sake of social , which is perhaps what we pretty much keep seeing today all over the place. To quote: . How spot on! MORE >>

'I love the ability the Internet has given us to share what we think with others around the world or around our organisation. Yet you would be amazed how often I get the reaction "Most people don''t want to have to think too much, especially at work". What would I have done in Nazi occupied Poland? What would I do if I had been born in Saudi Arabia? MORE >>