Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

Silo busting the corporation

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010I 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 ...

Book review: monkeys with typewriters

Sunday, February 21st, 2010A year or so ago, I get a call from a lady called Jemima Gibbons who wanted to meet me to discuss how one went about writing a book - so we meet up in my favourite haunt at RIBA ...

Obama and the superbranding of politics

Monday, January 25th, 2010My god Naomi Klein takes me back - No Logo is up there for anyone who is remotely interested in brands. And were I to draw up a time line of books I have read and how each book subsequently ...

I get a 70% royalty for publishing my book

Thursday, January 21st, 2010Quite extraordinary, I thought when reading about how Amazon is reaching out to authors in a manner that completely disintermediates publishing companies. And publishers as we know them are not happy campers at the moment.Arjan from Freedom Lab linked to ...

A life better lived by Katie Ledger

Thursday, January 14th, 2010When I started my career, I remember standing in the offices of Bartle Bogle Hegarty. As a young creative looking for a job I had my portfolio with me – a creative director was looking through my work. Definitely an ...

The chief culture officer

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010In conversation with Henry Jenkins recently about my forthcoming No Straight Lines book, Henry mentioned Grant McCracken. So I went to check him out and was pleasantly surprised to find his book the Chief Culture Officer.And Henry writes about Grants ...

What we call things is important

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009Having a mooch around with some ideas I am playing with I stumbled upon this book Metaphors We Live ByA quick check on the reviews was interestingStarting with the (deceptively) simple premise that the way we talk about certain things ...

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, ...

SMLXL: business and communications innovation

Friday, October 2nd, 2009I 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 ...

The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009So says Theo Jansen And to watch his extraordinary structures move you understand this is a man that does not take a linear approach to life.Yesterday, was quite an amazing day for me. Lunch with Livio and Lee @ Headshift ...

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