Archive for the ‘Distribution’ Category

Curated consumption in 2010

Monday, June 28th, 2010Good piece from Wired on Curated consumption, though Sarah Rotman Epps from Forrester takes a slightly different perspective to me and something we at SMLXL have been thinking about for a little while. In 2006,Lets just sprinkle the words, community, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The story of txtEagle and the networked organisation

Sunday, January 31st, 2010We posted about txtEagle recently here Nathan Eagle, explains his extraordinary story, and, the extraordinary story of how our world is being transformed by mobile communications. Nathan's personal fascination is the African continent he talks about how Mpesa and SMS ...

I get a 70% royalty for publishing my book

Thursday, January 21st, 2010Quite extraordinary, I thought when reading about how Amazon is reaching out to authors in a manner that completely disintermediates publishing companies. And publishers as we know them are not happy campers at the moment.Arjan from Freedom Lab linked to ...

Was the promise made good for society through 2.0?

Friday, January 15th, 2010Mr. Lanier, a musician and avant-garde computer scientist — he popularized the term “virtual reality” — wonders if the Web’s structure and ideology are fostering nasty group dynamics and mediocre collaborations. His new book, “You Are Not a Gadget,” is ...

Alan Moore speaking @ sxsw 2010

Monday, January 11th, 2010This weekend I was invited to give a keynote @ sxsw 2010 based upon my submission in August last year. (watch the 2.5 minute film)The topic is Straight Line Thinking Stops Here, something that I covered at The Do Lectures ...

The data war of the worlds

Friday, January 8th, 2010[caption id="attachment_4376" align="alignleft" width="420" caption="War of the Worlds?"][/caption]We blogged this years ago and Christian brought it up in context of recent development at google. So what are the business models of the 21st Century? SMLXL archives on data + marketing ...

Patrick Holden discusses food security @ Do Lectures

Thursday, January 7th, 2010Patrick Holden was brought up in London. He visited a dairy farm near Epping aged five and decided he wanted to milk cows. He studied biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College in 1972 and started a community farm in West Wales ...

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