Archive for the ‘Engagement Research’ Category

21st Century economics: No straight Lines

Saturday, March 6th, 2010 Umar Haque is not a shy retiring wall flower and his recent post confirms that observation - but I don't disagree with his perspective either. And this is because in Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital Perez writes, about technologies cluster and ...

Book review: monkeys with typewriters

Sunday, February 21st, 2010 A year or so ago, I get a call from a lady called Jemima Gibbons who wanted to meet me to discuss how one went about writing a book - so we meet up in my favourite haunt at RIBA ...

The story of txtEagle and the networked organisation

Sunday, January 31st, 2010 We 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 ...

Cambridge technology cooler than the Apple tablet?

Friday, January 29th, 2010 Cambridge produces some extraordinary technology. So I am glad to celebrate that. Its engagement as technology even into the automotive industry. Is it a disruptive technology? Minority Report springs to mind. And its twitter and wifi enabled.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Humanity does not follow the straight line rule

Sunday, December 6th, 2009 Jane Young has put together a very easy to understand set of thoughts that go to the very heart of of my current work. The communications revolution driven by a fundamental human need to connect and collaborate, and what that ...