Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

A short story about a long journey

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Here I am chatting away to David Cushman, talking about the things that are important to me and what I think should be important to anyone interested in creating meaningful communications in today's world of No Straight Lines.Looks like the ...

The Craftsman and modern society

Saturday, December 20th, 2008This summer I read an enlightening book called The Craftsman, by Richard Sennett.And one I highly recommend. The Craftsman, is an exploration into the idea of craftsmanship, from the basics of technique and personal expression to how craftsmanship might be ...

The Communication Ideal

Thursday, November 20th, 2008I met Jonathan MacDonald whilst working on the launch of Blyk last year. You might say it was love at first sight.I can remember on one occassion a particuarly charged group meeting, with J-Mac sitting on my shoulder egging me ...

The shock of the old

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008The leader in the Observer this weekend on the Hay-on-Wye book festival raised some pertinent points of interest for me.Old technology has a noble history of refusing to die. For decades, vinyl has defied the march ...

Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community

Monday, May 5th, 2008Says Stephen A MarglinEconomists celebrate the market as a device for regulating human interaction without acknowledging that their enthusiasm depends on a set of half-truths: that individuals are autonomous, self-interested, and rational calculators with unlimited wants and ...

Opening the doors of the modern age

Saturday, April 26th, 2008Johannes Gutenberg was indeed the key to opening the door of the modern age.I watched a programme last night presented by Stephen Fry taking us through the story of printing and its father Johannes Gutenberg.Stephen Fry asks why ...

Evolution of SMLXL

Friday, March 28th, 2008 In 2002, I founded a company called SMLXL - short for Small Medium Large XtraLarge.Its focus was and still is - how do businesses and organisations meaningfully engage in a commercial or social agenda with their audiences.  We were some ...

Tomi is interviewed on CNN about book Digital Korea

Monday, October 15th, 2007CNN's Kristie LuStout speaks with author Tomi Ahonen about how South Korea established itself as a technology leader.Check it out here

Corrupting Capitalism – privatising war and reconstruction. Has it all gone Pete Tong?

Sunday, September 30th, 2007The theme of the rise of consumerism over all of our lives is a something I am currently thinking about. And have thought about. Exhibit A ? Companies are from Mars and Customers are from Venus.I find it a difficult ...

Bad Samaritans

Saturday, September 8th, 2007America's greatest treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, met an untimely death in a duel in 1804. But his economic ideas keep firing back. In his 1791 "Report on the Subject of Manufactures", he quarrelled with the free-trade doctrines of ...

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