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• Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:40 AM

  Good Discussion of "Here Comes Everybody"

  A group of social and political commentators are hashing over Clay Shirky's excellent and important new work, Here Comes Everybody , over at the TPM Cafe section of Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo , one of the Internet's best sites for political news. Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Media, collaboration and social computing

• Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:48 PM

  TMI

  Tomorrow I am having the first (hopefully of many...) big press event for Generation Blend. My colleague Dan Rasmus and I are meeting with foreign reporters at Microsoft as part of their big Information Worker Vision event, and Dan will be interviewing Read More... Posted by Rob | 1 Comments Filed under: Media, the book

• Sunday, January 20, 2008 9:23 AM

  Another Cinematic Window into Generational Relationships

  In the words of one of my favorite aphorisms, "if all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." My hammer at the moment is generational theory, Strauss and Howe's view of the procession and relations between different cohorts in American Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Strauss & Howe, generational theory, Media, Boomers

• Friday, January 11, 2008 1:20 PM

  More on Obama as a Generational Candidate

  Just a quick nod to a couple of pieces appearing in the media in the last couple of days talking about Barack Obama's candidacy in relationship to Generation X (Danny Westneat's column in the Seattle Times) and Millennials (Michelle Conlin's article in Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Media, Politics

• Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:17 PM

  Generations of Mad Men

  My wife and I have belatedly discovered the fantastic new series Mad Men , currently re-running its first season on AMC or available on iTunes. Created by Matthew (“The Sopranos”) Weiner, it’s a dark comedy/drama set in a Madison Avenue ad agency in 1960. Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: generational theory, Media, Boomers, Generation X-ecutive