Archive for the ‘Alan Moore Speaking’ Category

The digital you: identity and privacy in the networked society

Saturday, April 10th, 2010Here is a concise 5minute presentation I gave at Mashup recently. Thanks to the guys (Tony and Simon) for inviting me, it was certainly an interesting and stimulating evening. Not that I was surprised, but, by the time all presenters ...

#nostraightlines @ sxsw

Thursday, March 18th, 2010Thank you to everyone that came along to my presentation @sxsw. Reviewing the twitter feeds #nostraightlines, the majority of the audience it seems felt I had made a real contribution to the event.Some people even said it was the best ...

So you wanna see the Rally Fighter @ sxsw

Friday, March 12th, 2010I 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 ...

Straight line thinking stops here @ sxsw 16th March

Monday, March 8th, 2010So here it is: Tuesday, March 16 at 11:00 AM in Ballroom BMy @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 ...

Grow VC the Kiva of tech start ups

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010I am proud to introduce Grow VC which has some great heritage behind it. Not only the creators but also projects like Kiva, Artistshare, Galaxy zoo and Local Motors (More on networked economics). Here is the context,80% of the growth ...

Online seminar with Gerd Leonhard and Alan Moore

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Thriving commercially in social media and the networked society: An interactive seminar with Gerd Leonhard and Alan MooreOn March 1st Gerd and I will be running an interactive online seminar. (more information here) We felt our combined capability and insight ...

Social media and mobile: my remote control for life bootcamp

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Last year I sat with one of the anointed Glitterati of the US Digerati who was extolling the virtues of "social meeedijaa", but only from the context of online. In the end I could not take it any more and ...

System failure – agriculture

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Part of the premise of No Straight Lines (video), is that there is an entire system failure of an industrial approach to everything that we do. Part of that failure relates to agriculture. Patrick Holden spoke about it very eloquently ...

Was the promise made good for society through 2.0?

Friday, January 15th, 2010Mr. Lanier, a musician and avant-garde computer scientist — he popularized the term “virtual reality” — wonders if the Web’s structure and ideology are fostering nasty group dynamics and mediocre collaborations. His new book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” is ...

Its not online or offline, it’s blended reality

Thursday, January 14th, 2010We acknowledge that digital communication tools, fixed broadband, mobile, convergence, open source, cheap production tools have changed our world. And we have shown that we are reluctantly accepting that by using the word digital ever more frequently.Digital natives vs. digital ...

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