Archive for July, 2009

No Straight lines: an advanced living course for the networked society

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009My good friend Euan Semple was interviewed at guruonlineIn this exclusive interview, social media expert Euan Semple breaks social media down into easy to understand terms and explains not only why every business should at least have a look at ...

Communication technology; is political [Iran]

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Following on from my post from yesterday highlighting Jamias Cascio's Video on why technology is political I picked this up from Boing Boing – Five technologies Iran is using to censor the webWhile the government's initial efforts to censor the ...

Communication technology is political

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Technology is Political from Jamais Cascio on Vimeo.Manuel Castells new book is called Communication Power, [Amazon] he writes reflecting on his time as an 18 year old protesting against the Franquist regimeWhat I sensed then, and believe now, is that ...

in the next decade we need to be radical about power; realistic about money; and relentless on innovation

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009I picked up this quote by Liam Byrne MP from Emma Mulqueeny's post on two recent reports, [1] Cabinet Office Strategy Unit Power in people’s hands: learning from the world’s best public services [2] Lords Information Committee creating connections between ...

Surfing waves of change (lose yourself to find yourself)

Monday, July 20th, 2009Recently, I met a remarkable young woman called Jane Young, who hails for the Shetland Islands and also runs Scrmblr. I immediately admired her passion for wanting to do something different in this world and she is definitely a part ...

How free are we – really?

Friday, July 17th, 2009Leo Plaw, who works on the SMLXL web presence, is also a bit of a thinker and an Aussie. He's all good things and raises in this post some very interesting points about how free are we really?He writesThese same ...

Cambridge struggling to turn science into commerce?

Friday, July 17th, 2009Susan Bratton of DishyMix (what a great name!) has posted an overview of the Travelling Geeks day in CambridgeSusan makes this observation,Cambridge is strong in the sciences and computer technology. They have a Angel and VC infrastructure. They have consulting ...

Travelling Geeks in Cambridge

Friday, July 10th, 2009The Travelling Geeks came to Cambridge today, hosted by the EEIA -  founded by Jeff Saperstein and Renee Blodgettwho are:Howard RheingoldJD LasicaTom ForemskiMeghan AshaCraig NewmarkSarah LacySusan BrattonAyelet NoffRobert ScobleSky SchuylerIts a bit like the Magnificent 7 - but there ...

Simon Caulkin tells us why its time to Reboot Britain

Sunday, July 5th, 2009At Reboot Britain tomorrow I make the observation that George Soros worried deeply that unfettered capitalism was creating a Cosed Society in which only one thing counted – material success. He argued for an Open Society; a new type of ...

Reboot asks: are we ready for more open and transparent government?

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Micah L. Sifry writing in the Independent, explores this idea,On his first full day in office, U.S. President Barack Obama issued an executive memorandum that may someday be seen as signaling the most important ...

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