Archive for October, 2010

The problem with Murdoch’s media

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010Henry Porter discusses some of the key criteria as to why Vince Cable has such an important contribution to  make in controlling total media and therefore political power currently wielded by Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp. This follows on ...

tattoos, identity and meaning [2]

Saturday, October 9th, 2010I am writing this post as my old friend David O'Hanlon asked a question to my post on Tattoo's, identity and meaning that I think requires a somewhat in-depth response. Patrick Skinner is a PHD student at Cambridge University, his ...

Tattoos, identity and meaning

Friday, October 8th, 2010One of the aspects of the networked that I think is oft overlooked is not to do with technology but with people, something that I explore in some depth in the forthcoming No Straight Lines book and project. How do ...

Data, lubricating a more open society

Friday, October 8th, 2010Picked this up from Future Gov. an interview with Tim Davis of Practical Participation, published by Dave Briggs.Reminds me of my postings last year on thinking differently about government in the networked society.Well worth a listen.

Bigging it up for iCheki

Thursday, October 7th, 2010Lars Cosh-Ishii from Wireless Watch Japan posted this and I couldn't help myself and take a peak @iCheki as I had just got back from Africa having been working on a very interesting mobile strategy project.Lars writes,Nice write-up on Alix ...

Networked and participatory education

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010The New York Times has run an informative article on gaming and education Learning by Playing: Video Games in the Classroom. Which reminds me of the work of Henry Jenkins on Participatory education and also of Howard Rheingold. Here is ...

What gets you out of bed on a Monday morning?

Monday, October 4th, 2010Didier Marlier writes,Daniel relates an interesting study run by the famous M.I.T. seeking to understand the impact of financial incentives on employees’ motivation. Participants were offered low, medium or high financial reward depending on their results in a series of ...

Incubate 2.0

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010[caption id="attachment_5772" align="aligncenter" width="553" caption="A quote by the Austrian artist – Hundretwasser"][/caption]No matter if you are running a local incubator, building an angel network or you are in charge of an government agency for SMBs, you primary question is: How ...

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