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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #230

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, Solve For Interesting, the author of Complete Web Monitoring, Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks and Lean Analytics), Hugh McGuire (PressBooks, LibriVox, iambik and co-author of Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person “must see”.

Check out these six links that we’re recommending to one another:

How to be literate in what’s changing journalism – Press Think. “Jay Rosen‘s excellent list of things he expects his journalism students to have understood by the time they finish in his class. With plenty of links. If you’re dealing with the media, this is table stakes.” (Alistair for Hugh).
What Happens When a Disruptor Gets Disrupted – Slate. “There’s a lot of talk about disruption, which in some cases sees an upstart taking a scorched-earth approach to the way things are done today. Uber‘s pretty voracious; even AirBnB tackles with regulators and cities. Maybe a bit less hubris is in order? That’s what Truecar seems to have learned from its near-death experience, anyway.” (Alistair for Mitch).
E-citizens unite: Estonia opens its digital borders – New Scientist. “Trying to wrap my brain around ‘e-citizenship’ isn’t quite working, but I love the hint of the idea. Estonia has taken steps to allow anyone to become an e-citizen of the country, giving them privileges previously only afforded to, you know, citizens: the ability to open bank accounts or start a business there, for instance. I suppose this kind of thing already happens for the wealthy: Swiss bank accounts and off-shore tax shelters and Cayman Island company registrations and the like. So, maybe this just starts to extend the same to anyone with an Internet address? Still, the idea that our identity and legal status in the universe should be governed only by an accident of geography – where we were born – is surely going to come under increasing pressure as more of who we ‘are’ lives in the cloud somewhere. Estonia is taking some early and interesting steps to help us figure out what the future of citizenship might mean.” (Hugh for Alistair).
What France has taught me: Americans are suckers who have themselves to blame for crappy broadband – Venture Beat. “Read it and weep.” (Hugh for Mitch).
How You Shop Online Changes The Prices You See – Fast Company. “Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled, The Future Of Personalized Pricing. The spirit of the post was simple: if we don’t have physical price tags on products, wouldn’t it make sense that brands could start a process of pricing things in a hyper-personalized way, or that pricing could start looking a lot more like high frequency trading? Well, it looks like that is exactly what is happening, and it could become the norm. Everyone is worried about net neutrality… how about pricing neutrality? Something tells me, that this will get people all up in arms.” (Mitch for Alistair).
What’s the best launch strategy for a Book? (What are some of the best; & probably cost-effective; ways to promote/market a new/existing book of any genre now-a-days?) – Quora. “Is it just me, or is Quora suddenly becoming more useful than Wikipedia? Some of the questions being asked on the platform have been excellent, and the responses… even better! If you’re thinking of writing a book or about to publish one, there is a plethora of good insights in this post. Love it.” (Mitch for Hugh).

Feel free to share these links and add your picks on Twitter, Facebook, in the comments below or wherever you play.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.