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. Worth a look for an interesting perspective on social computing and collaboration from some of ...

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 me on stage for a while until we open it up to Q&A. I've been somewhat nervous about this ...

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 history. Once you put on those goggles, everything from politics to pop culture snaps into a ...

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 Busienss Week, seen here on MSNBC). I've always considered this the most compelling aspect of ...

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. It’s not only a terrific character-based story; the period detail is incredible. We had fun ...