Archive for 2009

Networked organisations: the starfish revolution

Thursday, November 12th, 2009Samples from Smartmobs and orginated by Michael LeedenSeveral thoughtful people have commented on an unusual element in the Iranian revolutionary movement, aka “The Green Path of Hope.”  Although there is a troika (Mousavi, Karroubi and Khatami) that inspires many of ...

Murdoch, news, the truth and something inbetween

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Jay Rosen pointed to this on twitter - a great article about Rupert Murdoch,When Rupert Murdoch speaks, he's either lying or filibustering. The only sensible time to listen for him is when he's running silent.I agree with everything that Jack ...

Humanity a meme/gene machine

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Copying, with variation and selection. Susan Blackmore gives a highly entertaining presentation.Meme machines and gene machines and Techno-memes is the her passion.She says that we are merging with technology... how far will we converge?

Lessons for brands and media of the 21st Century

Friday, November 6th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4654" align="aligncenter" width="454" caption="FantaLife Beach"][/caption]Getting out of the ad spot into the fabric of peoples lives, requires some rethinking on communication, and the panacea is not "social media". Henry Jenkins in his 8 part investigation into what he and ...

Navigating in the networked society

Friday, November 6th, 2009Howard Rheingold gives us a short lesson on how to build aggregated, filtered, personalised information

Communication power, who has it?

Thursday, November 5th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4642" align="aligncenter" width="379" caption="Paris riots"][/caption]Well we did say Communities Dominate Brands! In an interview with Henry Jenkins he of Participatory Culture and Convergence Culture and even Transmedia storytelling fame, Maxime Cervulle for Poli, a French magazine of media ...

Cultural production in the age of sharing

Thursday, November 5th, 2009Cory Doctorow, from Boing Boing discusses his latest publishing venture.This is as non-linear as it gets in terms of thinking how business works in this networked wired up world. And fascinatingly enough its all about people, people connecting, information flowing, ...

90:10 a company purpose built for the networked society

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009My good friend David Cushman has co-founded 90:10 a company that understands that its people connecting to people which truly powers business in the networked society.I wonder whether, social media is a term invented by advertisers who are trying to ...

Making sense of the world we live in through micro narratives and data

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009Cognitive Edge

The quiet revolution of cooperation

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4624" align="aligncenter" width="258" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20237352@N00/4002179056"][/caption]America is in the midst of a new revolution. But this revolution is quiet, incremental, nonviolent, and traveling beneath the mainstream media's radar. The new American revolution challenges the current notions of dog-eat-dog capitalism—through the building ...

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