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I had a mail conversation with a highly intelligent person this morning about modelling. “you can´t model the interior” he said. I beg to differ. The challenge and great opportunity of our age is to model the interior based on signals in the exterior, such as language, behaviour and consumption patterns. “Good science” will have … Read more

People win friends. Business win followers. When we´ve sorted that out, let´s put on the nerd glasses for a while and have a look at what business folks need to understand in order to thrive (start thriving?) online. There´s fundamentally only two things to keep in mind – but mastering them is both an art … Read more

photo © 2009 Sasha Wolff | more info (via: Wylio) Within spiritual circles you often hear people going on and on about “there is nothing to fix”. The intention behind that attitude, I´m sure, is often well meaning, but never the less it´s stupid. Of course there are things that are preferably “fixed” rather than … Read more

I often hear people complain about what people publish in social media. “Why would I want to know what people eat for dinner with their relatives or them bragging about how exciting lives they pretend to live ?!”. The funny thing is that it´s only people that normally HAVE that kind of conversations with their … Read more

I det här klippet fokuserar jag på digital storytellings ädla konst och vetenskap. Klippet knyter ihop säcken från de föregående tre videorna, och går även in lite mer på hur man kan börja tänka sociala objekt och förenkla sin marknadsföring genom Zen. Alla videos spelades in i all hast vid en improviserad workshop i sociala … Read more

(R)evolutionen fortskrider

November 7th, 2010 | Posted by mattiasostmar in Personal - (0 Comments)

photo © 2007 PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE | more info(via: Wylio) Det slog mig häromdagen att jag ägnat mer än 20 år av mitt liv åt att läsa om människans uppfinningar, idéer och historia. Sedan några år tillbaka har jag fokuserat på att praktisera och utforska det senaste världsomvälvande verktyget – Internet – och särskilt hur det påverkar … Read more

I believe that it is possible to predict people’s interests by looking at their written language. This can be done by identifying a few psychological traits that shine through in personal relaxed texts such as Tweets or blogs. To accomplish this, we need large amounts of data on each individual and large amounts of individuals … Read more

PR-tänkaren Jerry Silfwer skrev en text häromdagen om varför många människor väljer att kolla sina sociala reaktioner i sociala medier före nyheter i traditionella massmedier och ställde sig frågan Har social blivit ett opium för folket? Jag anar hans svar i texten, även om det inte står rakt ut. Mitt svar är dock ett rungande … Read more