Archive for September, 2009

The axeness of an axe

Friday, September 11th, 2009You've gotta love that headline. Sadly I did not write that headline but leonora did from Treehugger,The axeness of an axe? What on earth does that mean I hear you ask? Well it's about starting with the essence of something, ...

Noisy ghosts rattling the cages in the communications revolution

Friday, September 11th, 2009Underpinning our passionate embrace of ‘social communication’ is the central issue of identity. Let me explain, in pre-industrial eras our identities were shaped by external forces, for example I live in an old agricultural village outside of Cambridge. 250 years ...

The future of journalism is err… UGC?

Thursday, September 10th, 2009I deplore the term user generated content - it somehow brings to mind used condoms to me. I write this as because, what we call things is important as that language frames how we interpret the world around us.The Future ...

Augmented reality on mobile with layar

Thursday, September 10th, 2009We like layar: Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone.For example here is a ...

Turn off your TV and Do something more interesting instead

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009I met a lovely lady at the Do Lectures - Leonora Oppenheim from Treehugger.She has written some great posts on the Do LecturesHere and here

Becoming the change you want to see in the world

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009Was what I suggested was "my little Do" after I presented at the Do lectures @ Fforest in Cilgarren on Saturday. "My big Do" was asking people to take the language I had presented and use that to challenge what ...

When the shit hits the fan its time to innovate

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Today, I was in a webinar with Euan Semple. He raised some very profound points concerning innovation and therefore creativity. Author Alan Bennett, once wrote that ordinary people can be instruments of the  sublime when a situation arises which they ...

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