Archive for the ‘Darwin’ Category

Mandleson, ethics, culture, commerce and copyright law

Saturday, November 21st, 2009[caption id="attachment_4715" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="The architecture of authority (photograph Richard Ross)"][/caption]Just as the leaks predicted, the UK government has offered up its Digital Economy Bill, which includes massive changes to copyright law, including the power of the government to effectively ...

Ecotopia

Monday, November 16th, 2009My good friend Andy Middleton is organising an event called Ecotopia - December 4th 2009So if you want to follow the No Straight Line rule of doing something. Get over to and get stuck in with Ecotopia.Become the change you ...

The new rules of customer engagement

Friday, November 13th, 2009I have been asked to make a presentation about the New Rules of Customer Engagement Monday 16th November organised by Canvas8 and takes place in the offices of the architects BDP. You can find out more information here.Also on the ...

Piracy thrives because it meets an unmet demand

Thursday, November 12th, 2009The Economist writesthere is growing evidence that the plethora of new services adds up to an attractive alternative to piracy for many (see article). In June a poll of Swedish users of file-sharing software found that 60% had cut back ...

Murdoch, news, the truth and something inbetween

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Jay Rosen pointed to this on twitter - a great article about Rupert Murdoch,When Rupert Murdoch speaks, he's either lying or filibustering. The only sensible time to listen for him is when he's running silent.I agree with everything that Jack ...

Humanity a meme/gene machine

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Copying, with variation and selection. Susan Blackmore gives a highly entertaining presentation.Meme machines and gene machines and Techno-memes is the her passion.She says that we are merging with technology... how far will we converge?

Lessons for brands and media of the 21st Century

Friday, November 6th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4654" align="aligncenter" width="454" caption="FantaLife Beach"][/caption]Getting out of the ad spot into the fabric of peoples lives, requires some rethinking on communication, and the panacea is not "social media". Henry Jenkins in his 8 part investigation into what he and ...

Google in 5 years time: an apps company

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009And Microsoft will reinvent itself through gaming.Even though Eric Schmidt might have a different point of viewThe reason for this is that the networked society is people powered, and its complex - in fact there is a term called complexity ...

The no straight lines of city innovation

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Shareable cities - what is a shareable cityCities are shared spaces. That’s why we gather, in part, to share basic infrastructure, to socialize, to satisfy our human instinct to congregate, to make culture together. The call for a Shareable City simultaneously ...

Is Britain ready for the networked society?

Monday, November 2nd, 2009The economist wrote an article called The Great Giveaway in which it takes a critical look at the decentralising of government into the shires. Local decision making gets passed down from central government to local government.A great deal of this ...

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