Dandelions and Viruses

Last week, Betsy Aoki tweeted:

Sick visual around how content is passed around - organic=dandelion, and then the spam marketing campaign (cancery clumps) #w2eless than a minute ago via webBetsy Aoki
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This intrigued me, as I had used Dandelion and Virus analogies talking about the social web 2 years ago and used these pictures:

Organic dandelion versus virus

And here's Paul Yiu's slide Betsy was looking at (number 8 in this deck):

Looks like a case of metaphors converging.

Live Waving the Google I/O Keynote

Google I/O starts today in San Francisco, but they've already exceeded the capacity of Moscone West, so even Google execs can't get in today. If like me you're watching remotely, here's the live stream. Me, Gina Trapani, Adam Pash, and Leo Laporte will be live-waving it here (and on their sites).

If you want to join in a free-for-all wave chat, try this one: