Archive for the ‘Ethics’ Category

Commerce, Culture, Community, Connectivity

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006I was speaking at the MediaGuardian Changing Media Summit yesterday.One of the topics discussed was "finding new ways to connect with consumers in a collaborative world."Unfortunately, there was not enough time to really get stuck into the topic.Its interesting ...

Business, society and the nuturing of communities

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006I was speaking at the Media Guardian Changing Media Summit yesterday.One of the topics discussed was "finding new ways to connect with consumers in a collaborative world."Unfortunately, there was not enough time to really get stuck into the topic.Its ...

Gooogle is passé and comment is free

Friday, March 24th, 2006Google is now in danger of being pass? - as a purely mechanical way of finding informationSays Alan Rushbridger Editor of the GuradianFurther And just to be "really terrifying", hundreds of sites are scraping the ads out ...

Google is passé

Friday, March 24th, 2006Google is now in danger of being passé - as a purely mechanical way of finding informationSays Alan Rushbridger Editor of the GuardianFurther And just to be "really terrifying", hundreds of sites are scraping the ads out ...

Children benefit from exposure to digital culture

Monday, March 20th, 2006Children benefit from exposure to digital culture Children need to participate fully in digital culture in order to develop the "skills, knowledge, ethical frameworks and self-confidence needed to be full participants in the world around them," MIT Professor Henry ...

The digital holes in the digital cheese

Friday, March 17th, 2006Rupert Murdoch talked about being either a digital immigrant or a digital native and then went and bought the holes in the digital cheese - though he did not realise it.I was thinking about the how an industrialised ...

Adapting to survive – Collaboration the key

Monday, March 13th, 2006Chimpanzees Recruit the Best Collaborators Humans collaborate with non-kin in special ways, but the evolutionary foundations of these collaborative skills remain unclear. We presented chimpanzees with collaboration problems in which they had to decide when to recruit a partner ...

I am in control….whooops… oooh no i’m not

Saturday, March 11th, 2006This is a great piece on the big debate about control of the internet, who, why and where.Who Will Control the Internet? Power, before it comes from arms or wealth, emanates from ideas. The Internet has emerged as a ...

Come together as one

Saturday, March 11th, 2006Today only about 5% of global advertising is online, yet 20% of media is consumed online.And so nobody is as clever as everybody "Collaborative usage of the internet is rising," said Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, a free ...

Pushmepullyou – in a connected world

Saturday, March 11th, 2006Digital music downloads triplesDigital music sale revenue tripled in the first half of 2005 compared with 2004, figures have suggestedDigital music sale revenue tripled in the first half of 2005 compared with 2004, figures have suggested. The International Federation ...

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