Why is college measured in “degrees”?
(Editor’s note; This is the first in a series of articles that challenges the “degree system” of knowledge measurement as archaic and irrelevant to what is actually happening in the world today. Like...
View ArticleIs Freedom A New Economic Paradigm?
(Editor’s note: The following was initially published on our sister blog conversationalcurrency.com. The point of this an other articles is to remove one component from an economy and see what...
View ArticleDeep Web Search
Deep Web Search Engine is here. This represents a new economic paradigm since increasing the available information increases the rate of change of knowledge across diverse communities. Keep your eyes...
View ArticleSocial Media and Foreign Direct Investment
In the broadest definition, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is an investment outside the economy of the investor. It usually refers to a measure of foreign ownership of productive assets, such as...
View ArticlePssst … Wanna Get Wasted?
Many Social Media Gurus are espousing a new culture that their clients should forget about blogging (adding meaningful content) in favor of the ubiquitous widespread “updates”. Using automated apps,...
View ArticleVideo: Intellectual Property in the Social Media Cloud
The Patent system is slow, static, and expensive. Sure it’s great for corporations and wealthy institutions, but what about the rest of us? How do we get paid for our intellectual property? We make...
View ArticleVideo: Dollar Vs. Rallod; A Mirror Image Economy
The problem with the American Dollar is that it is backed by future productivity in the form of debt – that is, our “promise” to pay off the debt. We know this because if America signaled that it was...
View ArticleVideo: The Calculus of Global Outsourcing
Picture credit The knowledge economy is a completely different asset than the industrial revolution’s Land, labor, Capital economy. Yet, our modern accounting systems and even our definitions of terms...
View ArticleSocial Media as a Vetting Mechanism
Where the vetting mechanism fails, the system fails. This has happened in countless instances from the current financial crisis to nearly every product, market, environmental calamity, or political...
View ArticleA Community of Knowledge Assets
Our culture organizes itself around winners and losers. Corporations reflect this competitive nature to the core of their Capitalist doctrine. Sports analogies abound across the enterprise straight...
View ArticleThe New Definition of Innovation
Innovation is most often defined as a good idea that has a favorable economic outcome – in other words, you know it when you sell it. I have seen Corporate executives glow red in the face shouting down...
View ArticleSocial Currency And The Innovation Bank
The real estate market is trashed, money markets are unstable, commodities are in the tank, the banking system is corrupted to the core, inflation is looming around every corner, and the politicians...
View ArticleWhen Social Media Becomes a Science
Jay Deragon posted a series of articles recently on his Relationship Economy blog which I found especially exciting. As usual, Jay is bringing forward some very important ideas related to social media...
View ArticleThe Social Caterpillar Award Goes To Home Depot
Corporations may be getting social “online” but how are they doing offline? Anti-social behavior on the ground is the genesis of our not-so-coveted Social Caterpillar Award. The Social Caterpillar...
View ArticleFoursquare Economics
The Next Economic Paradigm is arriving and the first entries include Foursquare. Few people understand the significance of this new class of social media applications. Foursquare contains many (but...
View ArticleCulture: When Engagement Is Not Optional
Today we see Social Media duplicating many of the functions of earlier society by storing community wisdom, applying social vetting, and deploying social currencies. It takes a Community Here is an...
View ArticleCan “Local Social” Support a New Currency?
Few people realize the significance of the emerging trend we call “Local Social”. As we learned from the emergence of Broadband technology, the “last mile” will be the final piece of the puzzle to...
View ArticleThe Brain-Picking Economy
I come across an increasing amount of posts and discussions related to alternate currencies, social currencies, and knowledge as a tangible asset, etc. It is as if people are grappling with something...
View ArticleTwo Sides Of The Social Value Equation
There are two sides to the Social Value Equation – the creation of social value and the destruction of social value. There are countless examples where innovation destroys the value of prior...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Cut of the $5 Trillion Knowledge Economy?
People accumulate a wealth of knowledge in their lives as they pass from project to project and industry to industry. Each of our social, creative, and intellectual pursuits and exposures combines to...
View ArticleHow Obama Will Save The World
Do the math – Interest on National Debt can go all the way up to infinity while Austerity measures can only go down to zero. There is tragedy looming at both ends of the political spectrum and the...
View ArticleThe Investment Banker Vs. The Innovation Banker
Future of Banking When I use the term “Innovation Bank”, people conjure up the image of a cheery place where anticipation reigns as starry eyed depositors arrange their intellectual property in neat...
View ArticleOutsourcing Fail
Gambling with Jobs The US Senate recently blocked a measure designed to reduce the outsourcing of US jobs that many corporations pursue in the relentless drive to reduce costs. Modern Globalization is...
View ArticleThe Game and The Counter-Game
The term “Gamification” is pretty cool, except that it is meaningless. Anyone who has ever worked a day in his or her life knows that the World is already gamed. Anyone who follows politics and world...
View ArticleThe Science of Change
Calculus has been called the greatest achievement of the human mind. Yes, it is a little difficult to understand … until one day it becomes the simplest, most obvious, and glorious form of expression...
View ArticleThe 5 Pillars of The Inevitable Economy
The previous article identified a recurring trend in human history; each new stage of civilization resulted from the integration of tools invented in the prior stage. That is; the output of one tool...
View ArticleThe All You Can Eat Option
The proverbial “all-you-can-eat” business model works great for some products and not-so great for others. The opportunity, of course, is to be able to transform non-viable business methods into...
View ArticleThe Wall Street Hack
In the first post of this series, we identified the 5 components of a financial system and suggested that Zertify, Gamidox, and Exoquant would serve to simulate their functions in a parallel economy...
View ArticleWhat EVERY Engineer Must Know About Bitcoin
A bitcoin (lowercase b), as a currency, has several flaws that will continue to limit its ability to replace money as we know it. There are millions of words published on the subject, so I’ll leave it...
View ArticleThe Conjuring of Intangible Values
My prior post “The Tail of Two Cities” demonstrates that the intangible social value conjured into existence by the bridge that connects two fair cities far exceeds the ‘tangible’ value of that bridge....
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