Archive for October, 2009

The no straight lines of authentic value in the networked society

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 I sit on the board of inspiration at the Dutch Think Tank Freedom Lab - the boys have been running a series of interviews within their network. And then turning these into short animated films. I have not looked at ...

Big business big schimzness – SME’s create new wealth

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 Excuse me for pointing this out but 80% of the GDP of this country comes from SME’S, even though big media likes to focus on ‘big business’, and ‘big things’. The reality is that the engine room of growth in ...

Commonwealth in the networked society [3] Big pharma

Sunday, October 11th, 2009 Big banks, big pharma, big problems, writes John Martin, MONEY has thrown society out of kilter. Banks that once appeared to have mountains of cash have collapsed. As a consequence of the global recession, governments now recognise that banking is too ...

Modern life is rubbish

Sunday, October 11th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4526" align="aligncenter" width="344" caption="Modern life is rubbish"][/caption] On September 11, 2009, a French woman who worked for France Telecom sent an email to her father, in that email she wrote, I can’t take the new reorganization. I prefer to die. Then she ...

The end of TV as we know it: hyperland

Friday, October 9th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4521" align="aligncenter" width="413" caption="TV the culture hearth of the family home?"][/caption] If found this post over at Russell Davies's gaff online. Russell has such a lovely turn of phrase dontchya think? Although as someone also said to me. 'sometimes Alan ...

Social Media Monitoring 09 update

Friday, October 9th, 2009 You can't move for falling over the word social media, I personally have a point of view on the phrase 'social media' but we can save that for a rainy day. My good friend Luke Brynley-Jones is putting what looks ...

Democracy lock down – but where is that exactly?

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 But its a bit complicated. However I think that communication technologies today are so powerful within a networked context that we are going to witness things we never thought possible - good and bad. In my lifetime I never ever ...

Will mobile innovate desktop browsing?

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 More thoughts on interface without interference (and here) – from Iheni – what you might call Userbility + Engagement. I’m beginning to see how innovations in mobile browsing to support universal access may just start influencing better desktop browsing and web ...

I suppose going back to the way things were is a bit out of the question?

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Euan Semple writes about his antipathy to the phrase Enterprise 2.0, Stowe Boyd wrote today about his discomfort with the phrase Enterprise 2.0 and his preference for "social business" as a way of describing the changes we are seeing currently. While ...

SMLXL: business and communications innovation

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 I am often asked what we do @ SMLXL here's a film that provides a brief overview of the SMLXL philosophy, and some examples of the type of work and projects we have undertaken over the last few years. From Interruption ...