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 ...
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Part of the premise of No Straight Lines (video), is that there is an entire system failure of an industrial approach to everything that we do. Part of that failure relates to agriculture. Patrick Holden spoke about it very eloquently ...
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
After writing about Naomi Klein yesterday and the superbranding of politics. I came across a thought piece in New Scientist called Invasion of the mind snatchers by Ethan Watters.
His story is one that around the world in different cultures, we ...
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 ...
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
By the end of the month, a company called txteagle will be the largest employer in Kenya. The firm, started in its original form in 2008 by a young computer engineer named Nathan Eagle and, as of this coming June, ...
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Mr. 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 ...
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
When I started my career, I remember standing in the offices of Bartle Bogle Hegarty. As a young creative looking for a job I had my portfolio with me – a creative director was looking through my work. Definitely an ...
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 ...
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Very relevant article about media and censorship that deals with recent events in Ecuador and Argentina but also relates that perspective to media and democracy in the US and the UK
A key point
...reasonable people may differ on what is the ...
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 ...
Alan has addressed, radio, television, and conference audiences globally. His book and his articles have been published many respected magazines, journals and newspapers globally.
Some comments on my 2010 sxsw presentation
One of my overall favorite sessions at SXSW #nostraightlines
Great big thinking. A perfect ending to #sxsw #nostraightlines
Hearing about #nostraightlines I am wishing I was at SXSWi for the first time
fantastic talk #nostraightlines #swesxsw
RT @saraschneider: I played the #sxswi lottery this am and won, with #nostraightlines
Its taken all weekend for somebody to say it. RT @elinesca: #nostraightlines it is not about social media it is about embedded sociability
Yet another great talk #nostraightlines best sxsw yet