Archive for 2008

Speed

Friday, July 18th, 2008Speed is Good, Time is the Devil said Hitachi and John Thackera in his book In the Bubble writes thatOur designed world reinforces the value we place upon speed. But the signs are that speed is a cultural paradigm whose ...

Learning can no longer be seen as something that is done to children by teachers

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008And I could not agree more.A different approach for teaching our children is a report published by Charles Ledbeater and covered in the GuardianThe word relationship drops in as doesthat qualifications aren't the only goal of an education, ...

The 100,000 mile Fireblade

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008This has absolutely nothing to do with this blog other than the fact that I go everywhere pretty much on my Honda Fireblade.Last week was simply an historic moment as the numbers 999999 clicked over on my Fireblade as I ...

Ask the PM on YouTube

Monday, July 14th, 2008Emma Mulqueeny and I are going to hook up next week - we were kindly introduced by Euan SempleI was having a a rummage on her blog and came across this.I want to have a look ...

Cost Per Related Audience

Monday, July 14th, 2008Nice thought from Ajit at Open GardensCost Per Related Audience Which follows on from the beginning o our discussion which started as cost per relevant audience.Ajit writesThe mathematical theories underlying social networks have existed for some ...

Analogue media presses the panic button

Thursday, July 10th, 2008Trinity Mirror, the owner of the flagship daily and the largest regional newspaper group, sent tremors through an ad-dependent industry when it revealed a 12.6% fall in ad revenues over the past two months. Other regional publishers - Newsquest, publisher ...

The Four Principles Of Social Computing In Business

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Euan Semple and I met up yesterday to talk stuff about a project we want to do together.On his blog was a great piece of insight he had - Ffffound via wikipediaWhoever ...

Metrics in the networked society

Monday, July 7th, 2008Ajit Joakar of Open Gardens has posted thisIn a previous blog, I discussed how Long tail social network analysis could be a business model for Web 2.0The key insights area) The Web has a higher CPM ...

The data flow wars [2]

Friday, July 4th, 2008In my post The data flow wars I wrote...data, and the extraction and refining of that data to support commercial communications is about to become mainstream - this new currency will becme the black gold of the 21st ...

De-schooling Society

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Having lunch with a friend Sophia Parker, ex-Demos. She is the author of Unlocking Innovation. Why citizens hold the key to public service reform And perhaps also of relevance The Journey to the Interface. How public service ...

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