Folk Music and Web 2.0

This analogy just appealed to me ....

Thanks to 'Anon' for this insightful comment ... about the morphing world of users and audience:

"The metaphor I keep coming back to on this is Folk Music. If you look at an open mic session, the "audience" turns up and sometimes, some people join in. People start by foot tapping, after a few ales they might pick up the courage to play an instrument, sing along at a table or even grab the mic. The boundary between audience and artist is practically non-existent. They are also playing, improvising and "remixing" copyright free music. Most importantly, you don't have to do anything, just by being there you feel as if you are participating. Internet participation and the movement from audience to user is creating a new "folk" or "people's" culture."

passed on - with thanks to : Modern Marketing - Blog by Collaborate PR & Marketing: By The People, For The People

So - Mossberg says "If you're old, average, and fearful, stick with Microsoft's Windows until this summer"

Mac Daily News

... so here's the question : If you're young, brilliant and rebellious - are the instructions any different ?

Consultants

Incoming EMail From Part Of My Network ....

Report from the National Audit Office (NAO) at the very end of 2006:

"following a long and costly analysis, that management consultants were of absolutely no use to mankind whatsoever, despite the £3 billion of public money we spend upon them annually."

Let’s be clear: it did not say that management consultants were sometimes of no use, but that sometimes they were terrific. It said, per se, management consultants are absolutely useless, full stop. In the three years leading up to the NAO report, spending upon ‘outsourcing’ to the likes of xxx and yyy (and surely those names should have given the game away) increased by 33 per cent.

There was one glorious example of outsourcing cited: Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs outsourced the problem of needing to save £105 million in labour costs. This they did, successfully, to a team of management consultants who charged them £106 million.

Opportunity

Love this - thank-you Lorraine ...

"There is no security on this earth: There is only opportunity."

Douglas Mac Arthur

Scientific Endeavour

Struck me as very relevant to the Beyond Bridges ethos.

For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which
mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can
anticipate.

Einstein