Archive for the ‘Convergence’ Category

The Do Lectures 2010

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010[caption id="attachment_5452" align="aligncenter" width="238" caption="Do Tent in the background aka Ted in a tent"][/caption]Last year I had the privilege to speak at The Do Lectures (my review here) (more Do stuff), and though I will not be able to make ...

Enable and empower communities don’t build apps

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010Most government agencies are missing out on a core ingredient with their contests. Sunlight had a not-so-secret sauce in its contest strategy that ought to be sharedFor us at Sunlight, the not-so-big secret was that it was never about the ...

No Straight Lines interview @dishymix

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Here is a link to the interview that I had with the fabulous Susan Bratton of DishyMix.It was said that Alan Moore sounded like a character from a Guy Ritchie movie at his SXSW keynote. Skyping in from Over, England (a ...

Mobile lessons for us all – all six of them

Thursday, June 17th, 2010I had the benefit of getting to know Philip Sugai via Lars Cosh-Ishii from Mobikyo, and was very excited when Philip told me about his new book - The Six Immutable Laws of Mobile Business which are,Immutable Law #1—Value Over ...

Social Art Field Trip

Monday, June 7th, 2010The Centre for Creative Collaboration are running Social Art Field Trips, designed to get people started in using social tools to create something, they say that is, beautiful, interesting and useful for their customers and stakeholders.These are are hands-on explorations ...

If life is local then you have to mean it

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010Life is Local is the anthem to which the Johnston Press sings along, and of course the truth is that in many ways, life is still very local, still very situated in physical space and place. Of course the struggle ...

Alan Rusbridger: 21st Century publishing @ Olswang

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010I went along last night to listen to Alan Rusbridger present at Olswangs Technology+ event. A packed room, listened attentively to what he had to say. The word he used for the future of the Guardian was mutalisation: whereby value ...

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 ...

Coalition of the willing

Thursday, February 25th, 2010Coalition 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 ...

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 ...

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