The graphic video featured Zimbabweans stripping the elephant for meat, while wearing GoDaddy baseball caps, with AC/DC’s Hells Bells as the soundtrack – it’s hardly a shining example of positive branding. According to Warren Buffet “it takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it&#. MORE >>

Professor Hans Rosling brings data to life through a very impressive visualization. He show data on health and wealth of 200 countries over 200 years, in 4 minutes. As he said, this required plotting 120,000 data points - and what they do really brings it to life. Incredible work. We need more of this. Thanks to Bruce for the heads-up on this. MORE >>

Bees, by kokogiak on Flickr, CC some rights reserved. From the wonderful and amazing Seattlefarmcoop : Seattle Farm Co-op comes evidence of the power of online communities and networks. Look at the time stamps. bee swarm. Posted by: “heatherleagr&#   ( email revmoved). Date: Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:37 pm ((PDT)). My bees just swarmed! MORE >>

It was just another example of centralized infrastructure that had to be scaled to peak load, even though peak loads occurred only a tiny fraction of the time. The classic example of ephemeralization was Bucky Fuller’s: a few tons of communications satellites replacing thousands of tons of transoceanic cable. MORE >>

Twitter is one of the clearest examples I’ve seen of an organization that deeply engages its base in building the value of its service. number of organizations take advantage of “User Generated Content,&# but only a few have built the kind of momentum we see with Twitter. Committing to Tweet Think about it. In fact, it is. Toward MORE >>