Archive for the ‘Engagement Sciences’ Category

Archaeology in a connected world

Sunday, January 28th, 2007 There 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, 2006 What a post When legal meets marketing I strongly recommend that you have a read of this which reports on Futures of Entertainments Conference at MIT Lots to digest But here are a few highlights Ads vs. Customer Experience ...

The tagged, described, organised, discovered, linked economy

Friday, November 24th, 2006 Every 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 ...

Digital immigrants speak a different language to digital natives

Sunday, November 12th, 2006 John Naughton electrified last week's Society of Editors conference when in a passionate personal polemic he savaged newspaper coverage of today's youth. There is much here to commend Naughton, the sad thing is he "electrified people." Who is he electrifying? ...

Engagement in a participatory culture

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 Howard Rheingold on Henry Jenkins Henry Jenkins has posted on his blog about the paper he and his colleagues have written for the MacArthur Foundation, about participatory culture and media literacy. I have followed Jenkins' lead in my attempts ...

Collective intelligence in a networked society

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 In a networked society, people are increasingly forming knowledge communities to pool information and work together to solve problems they could not confront individually. We call that collective intelligence Henry Jenkins speaking at the Serious Games Summit

The Network is Female

Sunday, October 29th, 2006 [caption id="attachment_3030" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Venus by Botticelli"][/caption] Leon Benjamin, left a note on a post I made European Commission to create open source collaboration portal Curious I went and had a look at his blog. He has made a great ...

European Commission to create open source collaboration portal

Friday, October 20th, 2006 Nothing like a paradox Information Age reports that the European Commission has engaged with Unisys Belgium to create a portal where public sector organisations can store and share open source development code. As the European Commission is ...

Convergence is a cultural phenomonen not a technological one

Monday, October 16th, 2006 The book's core premises could be identified as the following: 1. Convergence is a cultural rather than a technological process. We now live in a world where every story, image, sound, idea, brand, and relationship will play itself out across all ...

Life is Fashion

Saturday, October 7th, 2006 Professional Amateurs on Current TV But there is another way of looking at Current TV or the term Professional Amateur. In the Craftsman, Richard Sennett argues that “nearly anyone can become a good craftsman” and that “learning to work well enables people ...