Archive for the ‘Engagement Politics’ Category

Musings on the common spirit of distrust

Friday, March 12th, 2010 Taken 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, ...

Networked government – could reboot Britain

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 CFA is the latest wave in the growing government 2.0 movement, joining the ranks of Federal CIO Vivek Kundra's Data.gov site and innovation contests like Apps for Democracy and Apps for America, where citizens can create shared applications using public-sector ...

Obama and the superbranding of politics

Monday, January 25th, 2010 My god Naomi Klein takes me back - No Logo is up there for anyone who is remotely interested in brands. And were I to draw up a time line of books I have read and how each book subsequently ...

Its not online or offline, it’s blended reality

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 We acknowledge that digital communication tools, fixed broadband, mobile, convergence, open source, cheap production tools have changed our world. And we have shown that we are reluctantly accepting that by using the word digital ever more frequently. Digital natives vs. digital ...

The London datastore

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Not what you would quite expect. Dominic Campbell from FutureGov writes The London Datastore will see City Hall release, for the first time, huge realms of previously unavailable data for everyone to see and use free of charge. This is part of ...

Alan Moore speaking @ sxsw 2010

Monday, January 11th, 2010 This 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 ...

Mobile futures

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 I was asked whether I would like to make a few predictions around mobile, networks, commerce and culture by Rudy de Waele. I joined a very interesting collective to share my views and I was fascinated by what everyone of ...

David Rosenberg on building a sustainable world

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 David has emerged as a world leader in sustainable construction innovation and has lead Hycrete admixture through the very first Cradle to Cradle certification. He has participated in numerous conferences around the US and the world, including a closed panel ...

What we call things is important

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 Having a mooch around with some ideas I am playing with I stumbled upon this book Metaphors We Live By A quick check on the reviews was interesting Starting with the (deceptively) simple premise that the way we talk about certain things ...

War * Culture

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Found this on Flickr today [caption id="attachment_4824" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18382722@N00/118539502"][/caption] Each circle represents an individual with an outmodel (M) that represents its individual view of the world (color). The outmodel of each individual is heavily influenced by the outmodels of the individuals ...