Where is the OkCupid for elections? OkCandidate gets coverage in O’Reilly Radar. Interestingly, there’s a genuine startup called ElectNext calling itself the “eHarmony for elections.”
Where is the OkCupid for elections?
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“We need an OkCupid for candidates”
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Good comment from @digiphile in #newsfoo politics session: "We need an OKcupid for candidates"—
Tim O'Reilly (@timoreilly) December 04, 2011
Yep, that’s what we built yesterday at Times Open.
Jeff Jarvis on the NY Times’ do-not-track hypocrisy
Sunday’s New York Times editorializes in favor of Do Not Track and other privacy legislation going through Congress and the Federal Trade Commission. Yet The New York Times itself makes much use of personal, private, and tracking information itself. Indeed, it requires tracking.
Jeff Jarvis — Do-not-track hypocrisy
Who Rules America: An Investment Manager’s View on the Top 1%
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Who Rules America: An Investment Manager’s View on the Top 1%. Entry into the top 0.5% is usually because of some association with the financial industry. Fascinating read.
Learning from the now
This afternoon held in store for me a fast, engaging conversation with Andrew Jesaitis, a former business manager and colleague at the Whitman Pioneer, who I hear might be getting back into the journalism and media industry. He’s worked for Goldman Sachs since graduating, but will be starting an internship with The Ski Journal in the next couple of months.
I did my best to explain my understanding of how the business is changing, the forces driving the change, and what trends are solidifying for the future. Newspapers and journalism are under the influence of longer-term change because of more ubiquitous ICT, but the current cacophony of crisis is largely due to the biggest recession in half of a century and over-leveraged debt. A lot of the discussion has been centered around the lack of leadership in redefining newspaper business models, but I think Michael Nielsen deserves merit for saying that newspapers might also be failing because their institutional structures are too optimized for an old paradigm. They are too good at what they used to do, and the jump into experimental and uncertain territory is nigh impossible.
Internet as a disruptive force
For tomorrow night’s Fertile Ambition call, my argument is that the internet is an inherently disruptive force for institutions and industries whose business models don’t take advantage of a flattening world. Pragmatically speaking, I’ve identified the music, movie, and news industries as ones which have already been at the receiving end of this characteristic. In the near future, I see at least the political and educational systems facing serious change.
One effect of the disruption I’ve identified, but have no support for at the moment, is that the institution has a reduced capacity to fulfill its tasks through the duration of the evolution. Moreover, if there are no support mechanisms in place, then society’s capacity to function in the affected arena is seriously hindered. Alternative methods of education are abundant on the internet, but I can’t think of any backups we have for the current political process.
There are at least several questions I still have. How valid is this premise (and is it concrete enough)? What other institutions or industries are vulnerable? How do institutions take preemptive action to address the changes they will eventually have to deal with? Most importantly, what are the discrete components of each stage of institutional evolution?
Saturday night at the Campbell Club
Hungry hungry rapperz?
