A stencil on the old library, King Street, Charleston.
Many excellent writers are happy to spend their careers observing and describing other people’s ideas and passions. But much of my work is about generating, communicating and applying original ideas and solutions.
I’m still best-known as a writer on media/new-media topics, and my catalog there is so extensive that I’ve broken out the highlights into a stand-alone page. So if you’re here for my ideas about journalism, online business models, newspapers, blogs, social media, etc., then my Media & New Media page is what you’re looking for. Happy browsing, fellow media geeks.
Of coure, some of my favorite ideas aren’t really journalism and business ideas per se. Try some of these on for size:
The 21st Century in Retrospect: Time may appear to be linear, but change certainly isn’t. That’s why some things only make sense in review. To introduce my interrelated ideas about major themes in the development of 21st century culture, media and economics, I abandoned the essay format and instead imagined a panel of academics reviewing their century from the perspective of 2099.
Our Expanded Selves & The Construct: Why “extensions of our intentions” will create our culture, drive our economy and redefine our identities within a few short years.
Virtual Publishing Groups: How to harness the power of social groups of common interest to create a new kind of company. I proposed this idea, which falls under the header of “content enabling” instead of “content producing,” as a competitor to the standard publishing-house business model, but it works for other types of products, too. The VPG concept is as radical today as when I first proposed it in 2004-05.
The Xarker Manifesto: A set of beliefs and principles that described my view of the world in June 2005. Everyone should have a manifesto (and edit it from time to time).
A New Form of Writing: Every medium changes the way we write and communicate, so why haven’t we built word-processing tools and evolved a writing style that makes use of the Web’s strengths?
