Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category

A requiem for Detroit

Thursday, May 13th, 2010I became aware of the plight of Detroit through my research into Local Motors. I used Detroit in my sxsw presentation to highlight what happens when we cannot build adaptation, into business systems, into regions - this is the toxic ...

Selling in the networked economy @ Cambridge Network

Thursday, May 13th, 2010Last night I motorcycled over to Redgate Software on the Cambridge Business Park to speak at the Cambridge Network event, so thank you Matt from Cambridge Network for inviting me along, on Selling in the Networked Economy. Well, the official ...

The fairness in economics

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010Ernst Fehr on compassion in economics,Twenty years ago, Fehr had a seemingly sensible idea - that a deep-seated human preference for fairness might play an important role in economics.Fairness and Reciprocity

Industrial slash and burn or the no straight lines of possibility?

Friday, March 26th, 2010In his article for The Observer – Tony Judt writes,Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For 30 years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes ...

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 ...

Musings on the common spirit of distrust

Friday, March 12th, 2010Taken from a post written in 2008,[caption id="attachment_5220" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/85593720@N00/2827812861"][/caption]Today we challenge the authority of our world, media, organisations and even governments via a whole set of activities that can be networked and grassroots. It is done via co-creation, ...

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 ...

Love poems on my mobile

Sunday, February 14th, 2010Being Valentines Weekend the Financial Times published a poem by our Poet Laureate  Carol Ann Duffy calledTextI tend the mobile now like an injured birdWe text, text, text our significant words.I re-read your first, your second, your third.look for your ...

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 ...

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