the future of the book - IDEO

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

Amazon Kindle - your ideal gift for the readers on your Xmas list

Amazon "kindles" a new fire in electronic book reading. This 6 minute video shows how you will use this new portable, 10.3ounce, paperback size device. Download your reading library via a wireless connection just like calling on your cell phone. This device and the kindle service will revolutionize the book, magazine,newspaper and blog publishing media space.

It's already sold out at Amazon, so you will have to stand in line to get one for your Xmas list. I want one too.


Amazon.com : Entertainment : A Video Demonstration of Amazon Kindle

wikinomics presentation by Don Tapscott

This will take you to the eLarning site where you can download and listen/view Don Tapscott's presentation of Wikinomics. I was in Mexico when Tapscott presented on the Cisco campus so I am grateful to John Maloney of Colabria and eLearning for the fully documented archive of Tapscott's talk. eLF vPortal I now will take up Tapcott's challenge in the Wikinomics Playbook to attempt to add value to his work.

This is a powerful example of the emerging concept of the networked book.Thoughts Illustrated: WIKINOMICS-another "Networked" book example

What were they saying? Tag Clouds from US Presidential Speeches from 1776 to the present

Sliding the timeline bar across the tag cloud space provides an impressive look at the key topics at the "top of mind" in Presidential speeches from John Adams to George W.

This demo also shows the visualizing power of the tag cloud done with just 2 levels of font size and color differentiation. Each cloud contains 100 tags.

From the website of Chirag Mehta a 26 year old kayaking programmer. Original link from the ifBook blog on a networkedbook: GamerTheory

US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud - Chirag Mehta : chir.ag

BookTV.org - Another way for authors to promote their memes

BOOK TV.ORG
Click here and when you see the BookTV page click on any of the books which will link you to a brief abstract about the author and the book, and a TV schedule for interviews with the author.

The one that caught my eye was After Words, and clicking on that book spine took me to the description of a George Gilder interview with John Naisbitt and his new book MindSet.

In the interest of integrating the BookTV approach to promoting author's works, i will force myself to watch the Gilder/Naisbitt interview and, if possible record it for podcasting.

The Future of Media - updated

Click on this image to get a bigger view of the diagram prepared for the Future of Media Summit in July 2006. The post is updated from my original in July 2006.

The podcast by Art Kleiner is a gem -

VIOSTREAM - powered by Viocorp - Communicating Better: "

as is the research report you can get by clicking below:

::..Future of Media Summit 2006 - Research ..::
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/and here is more from if:book: blogging restructures consciousness?: "'My hunch,' she says, 'is that things are going two ways: writers as orchestrators of mass creativity, or writers as wielders of a new rhetoric.' "

Both views appear to be valid - but the Networked Book is clearly moving in the realm of writers as orchestrators.

WIKINOMICS-another "Networked" book example

Wikinomics, by popular business thought leader Don Tapscott , is another example of the emerging publishing process called the "networked book" see:Thoughts Illustrated: The Pulse Project The Networked Book

As Tapscott writes: " A new art and science of collaboration is emerging—
we call it “wiki-nomics.” We’re not just talking about creating online
encyclopedias and other documents. A wiki is more than just software for
enabling multiple people to edit Web sites.

It is a metaphor for a new era of collaboration
and participation, one that, as Dylan sings, “will soon shake your windows
and rattle your walls.” The times are, in fact, a changin’.

These changes, among others, are ushering us toward a world where
knowledge, power, and productive capability will be more dispersed than
at any time in our history—a world where value creation will be fast, fluid,
and persistently disruptive. A world where only the connected will survive."

"Wikinomics has 11 chapters, but only ten have yet been written. Chapter 11, The Wikinomics Playbook, will be written by you: a community of readers and experts like yourself who will share ideas about how to embed key Wikinomics concepts and principles in 21st century organizations and business enterprises." WIKINOMICS | WIKI:

Thoughts Illustrated (TI) at work in group settings

My first experience in the use of TI techniques was its use in facilitating the acceleration of design, development and action in groups of 10-50 persons, where the illustrator accelerates group cohesion and rapid iteration of ideas and concepts to complete complex work by synthesizing(visually interpreting) the ideas and concepts being generated in real time by the diverse working groups. This experience was coordinated by a design practitioner experienced in facilitating high performance teams and the power of TI visualization to support the process.(See example by Eileen Clegg above.)

What began for me at the Knowhere Store in Palo Alto in 1997 where the process was integral to the work of Matt and Gail Taylor in their Design Shops, and led over time to my use of the process in facilitating early stage company due diligence, and strategic alliance development, and finally in the partnering with Ernst and Young in the establishment of the VentureStream Accelerator facility and practice - has convinced me that not only is the TI process useful in applications such as those in my previous posts on the use of TI for thought leaders and their written or spoken media publications, but even more useful when applied, as has been my experience, in the work of teams in all types of organizations, from startups to large enterprises.

It now appears to me that the "book" on TI needs to be written - from a case study and story telling basis, there is a wealth of knowledge that can be distilled and published for public consumption and consulting practice development - and that writing about and exhibiting the power of TI in blog, podcast and book form can provide powerful examples of the TI process in action.

There exists an internationally distributed cadre of graphic facilitators and knowlege creation enablers experienced in the use,and convinced of the value, of TI from several decades of practice who can be called upon to provide the necessary talent to undertake the building of a successful TI-based microenterprise network. Their cumulative skills and experience when coordinated as a group practice is world-class.

I have talked about this concept with many of the above practitioners, and believe that there is a way to engage them in collaborative projects where their specialized experience can be marketed in a manner that at present none of them seem to have developed on an individual and small group basis.

We need to write the book - and it probably should be a collaborative open source project in which illustrations from each of the collaborator's experiences would provide the narratives and allow for repurposing and exponential improvement via the work of as many talented collaborators as can be recruited.

Thoughts Illustrated
an open source creative commons publication

Now is the time to begin writing it and further developing the microenterprise network to support its acceptance and implementation in advancing the practice of high performance work groups in all settings.

I will work over the weekend to think through the principal collaborators who should be invited to join in this work and post the listing here early next week along with the invitation to them to join in the writing and publishing effort.

Joi Ito was the catalyst for an example of this Open Source publishing process in Extreme Democracy,later edited and published by Jon Lebkowsky.
Amazon.com: Extreme Democracy: Jon Lebkowsky, Mitch Ratcliffe: Books