Archive for the ‘Engagement Sciences’ Category

Lord Carter and the networked society

Monday, February 23rd, 2009I suppose Lord Carter thinks peer-to-peer networking is him having a chat with Lord Mandelson in the back of the ministerial limo.Insightful, visionary, implicit knowledge articulated as a piece of poetry.Johnny Moore nice one.I think this is in response to ...

Human nature and the need for social connection

Friday, January 23rd, 2009[caption id="attachment_3130" align="alignleft" width="197" caption="Loneliness by John T.Cacioppo & William Patrick"][/caption]Two cornerstones of classic economic theory are the assumptions that individuals are rational decision makers and individuals have purely self-regarding preferences.  These assumptions fly in the face of most psychological ...

Hot media = heat is energy in motion

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Someone asked me today how I would describe hot media.Heat is defined as energy in motion, and I describe hot media as media which enables us to make media and communication, dynamic and participatory.This in fact is the antithesis of ...

Pro-Ams or craftsmen and craftswomen for the 21st Century?

Saturday, January 17th, 2009They call them Pro-Ams - I call them the craftsmen and craftswomen of the 21st CenturySo it is no surprise that we get a story like this one A galaxy of helpful peopleWhich tells the tale of Dr Chris Lintott ...

You’ve come a long way, but you ain’t seen nothin’ yet

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Says Vint Cerf in his Op-ed piece about the Internet I have no doubts that its social repercussions will take decades to be fully understood, but it has already done much to benefit the world. It has provided access to information ...

When Petrabytes seem like kilobytes – what comes next?

Monday, April 7th, 2008 Affirmation is a great and positive word and I have been feeling some affirmation recently and here is another small slice The concept of Web 2.0 is a dynamic, user-driven mesh of technologiesAbsolutely, and Carlota Perez in her book Technological ...

Evolution of SMLXL

Friday, March 28th, 2008 In 2002, I founded a company called SMLXL - short for Small Medium Large XtraLarge.Its focus was and still is - how do businesses and organisations meaningfully engage in a commercial or social agenda with their audiences.  We were some ...

Archaeology in a connected world

Sunday, January 28th, 2007There are times when you feel that you are going over the same old ground.So then - its great when the words Archaeology and Communities find each other.And why not. Why can't archaeology be more collaborative?So here is a post ...

Convergence: culture, politics, entertainment and technology

Friday, November 24th, 2006What a post When legal meets marketingI strongly recommend that you have a read of this which reports on Futures of Entertainments Conference at MITLots to digestBut here are a few highlightsAds vs. Customer Experience...

The tagged, described, organised, discovered, linked economy

Friday, November 24th, 2006Every day we collect 10,000 gestures for videos outside Dabble and 10,000 within Dabble. Let's say 5 percent of the videos we are getting every day have some gestures associated with them. [ed's note: each video can have ...

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