Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category

The Do Lectures, Paula Le Dieu

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010The Do Lectures and The Do Village BlogSMLXL on copyright, open source, innovation, culture

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 ...

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 ...

Journey’s in augmented reality

Sunday, September 19th, 2010Picked this post up from Layar co-founder, M. Lens-FitzGerald. Urban Augmented Realities and Social Augmentations that Matter: Talking with Bruce Sterling, Part 2The post is well worth a read, and I picked this nuggetJesse Schell described the importance of AR ...

Life is ahem – really, really local

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010Another great presentation that I discovered on how local news becomes - well, local again.So if you cannot truly give value back to your relevant community and stay relevant then you become irrelevant instead. Simples. The only thing I would ...

Requiem for Detroit or time to kick out the jams?

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010[caption id="attachment_5507" align="aligncenter" width="461" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23368962@N00/503069237"][/caption]We came across the BBC2 Documentary about Detroit recently, and today I sat down and watched it again and made some notes.There is a section in the film where we are told that at one point ...

The framework of the networked society

Monday, July 12th, 2010Michel Bauwens of the P2P Society has put together with the help of Lily Fisher, a beautiful presentation on how various legal/creative/production/business tools and frameworks fit together. Thank you Robin Good for the hat tipEverything open and free on ...

“Crowdfunding will never catch on” investment trainee age 46

Monday, July 12th, 2010I stole the headline from an old economist advert, but just tweaked a little for context!The crowd has the potential to be a larger funding source than anyone of us ever expectedArgues Paul Kedrosky in The Venture Capital Journal July ...

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