The data flow wars [2]
Friday, July 4th, 2008 Posted in CDB, Ethics, Law, Media, Web/Tech | No Comments »In my post The data flow wars I wrote ...data, and the extraction and refining of that data to support commercial communications is about to become mainstream - this new currency will becme the black gold of the 21st ...
Polyclinics are not communities
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Darwin, Ethics, Government & Politics, Health, Social Networks, Society | No Comments »In the UK at the moment the Government (Civil Service) is moving to roll out a plan to remove our local GP surgeries - GP stands for General practitioner For what is described as Polyclinics. We blogged abut it ...
Rehab is for quitters
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Citizen journalism, Ethics, News, Newspapers, Society | No Comments »Sang Amy Winehouse. Well she didn't exactly say that, but the thought crossed my mind, when I stopped by my favourite wine shop in Cambridge called Bacchanalia. Because the owner Paul Bowles was reading an article about his shop published in ...
Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Books, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Ethics, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Trends | 2 Comments »Says Stephen A Marglin Economists celebrate the market as a device for regulating human interaction without acknowledging that their enthusiasm depends on a set of half-truths: that individuals are autonomous, self-interested, and rational calculators with unlimited wants and ...
The data flow wars
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Networks, News, Participation, Philosophy, Quotes, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Trends, Web/Tech, iPTV | 2 Comments »Way back in 2003 Tomi and I started working on a project called Communities Dominate Brands - today the very things that wrote about have become - well mainstream. Its a crowded house these days. So - here's another road-sign for ...
Making data free is economic sense
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in Distribution, Economics, Ethics, Government & Politics, Society, Statistics, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »We seem to have a theme going on about data and its various uses at the moment. I spotted this recently Two years ago, we launched our Free Our Data campaign on an act of faith. ...
Its the small things that keep communities together
Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in Culture, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Ethics, Government & Politics, Politics, Retail, Society, Strategy | 1 Comment »Just imagine you are part of the government. Among your principal concerns are how to hold society together at a time of rapid change. You worry about social and community cohesion and the practical, psychological and economic isolation of the ...
The Experts vs. the Amateurs
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | 2 Comments »An interesting debate this one. A tug of war over the future of media may be brewing between so-called user-generated content -- including amateurs who produce blogs, video and audio for public consumption -- and professional journalists, movie makers ...
Oh - we had a community - Lessons from Nextel
Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Mobile, Social Networks, Strategy, Trends | 2 Comments »A fascinating article on what Tomi blogged at at great length may I add on the Sprint/Nextel debacle. Nextel Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTL - message board), once the poster child for high average revenue per user ...
How do you re-build the social fabric of towns and cities??
Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Participation, Social Networks, Society | No Comments »Asks Strategy and business Business leaders are increasingly aware that the health of their enterprise is intimately connected with the health of the communities where they operate. As employers, they sometimes find themselves drawn in to help ...
