Archive for 2010

So you wanna see the Rally Fighter @ sxsw

Friday, March 12th, 2010 I think I am becoming slightly American. Once upon a time I would have flinched at the word "awesome" or "awesomeness". I have been called awesome myself - but that was many years ago when I gave a speech in ...

Musings on the common spirit of distrust

Friday, March 12th, 2010 Taken from a post written in 2008, [caption id="attachment_5220" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/85593720@N00/2827812861"][/caption] Today we challenge the authority of our world, media, organisations and even governments via a whole set of activities that can be networked and grassroots. It is done via co-creation, ...

Commercially thriving in the networked society – take 2

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 Gerd and I will be running the 2nd part of our series of online seminars - March 22 2010 See outline (here) and (here) Our hope is that we can help people make sense of the challenges they face and how ...

Silo busting the corporation

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 I met Jeff Saperstein last year, the first time at Reboot Britain Conference where I was presenting, and then shortly after in Cambridge. I was very interested in what he had to say, and so we stayed in touch. Recently Jeff ...

Straight line thinking stops here @ sxsw 16th March

Monday, March 8th, 2010 So here it is: Tuesday, March 16 at 11:00 AM in Ballroom B My @sxsw presentation that covers the themes and topics of The No Straight Lines Project, (video) so come along to cheer me along, heckle or profoundly disagree ...

21st Century economics: No straight Lines

Saturday, March 6th, 2010 Umar Haque is not a shy retiring wall flower and his recent post confirms that observation - but I don't disagree with his perspective either. And this is because in Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital Perez writes, about technologies cluster and ...

Alan Moore and Gerd Leonhard March 1st Webinar

Sunday, February 28th, 2010 Tomorrow, March 1st Gerd and I are running the first of many sessions on Thriving Commercially in the Networked Society I posted about it (here). So a couple of films made by our friends at Freedom Lab that outline how Gerd and ...

Mobile my remote control for life: destination Japan

Sunday, February 28th, 2010 It never ceases to amaze me that people, some people, refuse to accept that Japan has much to teach us in terms of how to market successfully, create killer advertising campaigns and do other cool stuff in which he mobilee ...

Legal madness in Milan

Friday, February 26th, 2010 Its not Milan Daaaaaarling this time. Just reading an editorial in the analogue version of the Guardian. On Wednesday, a Milanese court convicted three Google executives of violating privacy and gave them six-month suspended sentences. This is an analogue verdict in a ...

Coalition of the willing

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Coalition of The Willing’ is a film that discusses how we can use new internet technologies to leverage the powers of activists, experts, and ordinary citizens in collaborative ventures to combat climate change. Through analyses of swarm activity and social ...