Social entrepreneurship is basically to create a social impact on different communities, but how are these communities really reacting to entrepreneurial solutions, and especially new technology? For any social enterprise it is crucial to understand the audience and even more important to understand how they will react to exposure to a new technology. I talked [...]
Categories: Social communities
Recently I have been thinking of the human nature. The stories told here in the Valley by the fellows from all corners around the world, really makes you think of who you are and how you are behaving. Personally I have not in a very long time felt as peaceful and calm as I do [...]
Categories: personal
Currently I am reading Nicholas Carr’s book Does IT matter? and even though I might not agree with everything, some of the conclusions made really makes sense. It has got me thinking in more general terms of how we are behaving when we are faced with (new) technology and what technology we actually need. The [...]
Categories: Technology
I had a chat yesterday about an entry I wrote some weeks ago about a nightly walk down by the beach. She told me that the lyrics of the song (Fix You by Coldplay), made a big impression of one of her friends. That got me thinking of the text some more. I am currently [...]
Categories: personal
I read an article today about teenagers and blogs. In the short article some figures are presented on the differences between the blogging by youths and adults. Only one out of 14 adults is writing blogs, while there is one out of five youths writing. Even more interesting these figures become for the reading of [...]
Categories: Social communities
I read a blog by Nicholas Carr about the amorality of Web 2.0 with the focus on Wikipedia hype. I decided to write a blog with some reflections on it. Please read it for a full discussion of the problem. Do not get me wrong, I truly believe in the power of the users and [...]
Categories: social media
I read a blog by Nichoals Carr on the amorality of the Web 2.0. What is a bit scary these days is the unconditional trust people put on system like the Wikipedia and Delicious. Putting the full power in the hands of the users is not complex free, as we really have to trust all [...]
Categories: personal
Some good reading