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 ...
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Its not Milan Daaaaaarling this time.
Just reading an editorial in the analogue version of the Guardian.
On Wednesday, a Milanese court convicted three Google executives of violating privacy and gave them six-month suspended sentences. This is an analogue verdict in a ...
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Coalition of The Willing’ is a film that discusses how we can use new internet technologies to leverage the powers of activists, experts, and ordinary citizens in collaborative ventures to combat climate change. Through analyses of swarm activity and social ...
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 ...
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
We posted about txtEagle recently here Nathan Eagle, explains his extraordinary story, and, the extraordinary story of how our world is being transformed by mobile communications. Nathan's personal fascination is the African continent he talks about how Mpesa and SMS ...
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
CFA is the latest wave in the growing government 2.0 movement, joining the ranks of Federal CIO Vivek Kundra's Data.gov site and innovation contests like Apps for Democracy and Apps for America, where citizens can create shared applications using public-sector ...
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 ...
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