The protean mega-platform, as expected, announced a slew of changes yesterday. The changes are in three main areas: profile, sharing and apps. This post will look at Profile changes and the 'Timeline' - I'll cover off the others asap. You can also add images to your Timeline, along with other forms of content. Facebook MORE >>

Both of these look at the benefits of mixing a number of forms of communication. That’s traditional media and arguably it’s simply part of the video, but I think text within a video alongside speech is really an example of layered comms, because your brain is interpreting two forms of communication at once. Any ideas? MORE >>

You might laugh, but as I’ve been thinking about the culture change associated with social business design, I’m reminded of the literature on coercive persuasion, aka brainwashing, in its ugliest form. loose adaptation: simplified steps to "induce" culture change:?? Only brainwashing has such negative connotations. MORE >>

It’s main thesis is that the state form is no longer something that is being aspired to by the new type of insurgents, whether they are worldchangers or criminal organizations. Jakub Grygiel has written a very cogent “ John-Robb-ian &# essay at the Hoover Institution , written from the standpoint of power itself. MORE >>

Businesses and governments are facing the Herculean challenge of reducing climate change and pollution while alleviating poverty without economic growth — a task for which the Market State is neither prepared nor designed to handle. Major changes are on the way. The challenge of decommodification and deterritorialisation. Without a ?unified MORE >>