Archive for the ‘Government & Politics’ Category

Transparency vs. opacity – hot media vs. cold media

Saturday, July 8th, 2006Student blog devoted to G8 summit A group of University of Toronto students will be using blogs to report on this year's G8 summitAs they have in past years, students from U of T's G8 Research Group will ...

Creativity and education

Thursday, June 29th, 2006We educate our children from the waist up, then we focus on their heads, and then we only educate one side of their brain.The whole purpose of education is to produce university professors. Who live only in their heads. ...

Pictures in our heads

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006For America, the last decade of the twentieth century not only saw a proliferation of the use of new communication technologies but also witnessed the rise of multiculturalism as ethnic communities and new immigrants resisted the earlier normative goal of ...

Mysteries of large distributed systems

Thursday, June 15th, 2006One of the great mysteries of large distributed systems - from communities and organisations to brains and ecosystems - is how globally coherent activity can emerge in the absence of centralised authority or controlThis is the ...

Alan and Shel on the BBC

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006Last week I was a keynote speaker along with Shel Israel of Naked conversations, at the NMK marketing 2.0 - content 2.0 conference.Shel and I - had a head to head conversation about Trust, Communications, and Marketing.It was ...

Its not the end of economics as we know it…but

Monday, June 5th, 2006I am in the middle of reading Yochai Benkler's book   The Wealth of Networks.Tons of useful stuff, however, this I found to be interesting, in trying to get companies/ organisations to understand and therefore rethink how they do what ...

Fast-food giants feeling heat from the film of the book.

Friday, June 2nd, 2006With the premiere of the anti-junk food film Fast Food Nation in Cannes last Friday, America is about to find itself in an intense, potentially messy, summer-long food fight.Reported the Observer Ohhhhh did someone say ...

Viral video and the death of the broadcast casino

Thursday, June 1st, 2006John Gappers article in the FT Broadcasters cannot quarantine the viral video outbreak has been sitting on my paper strewn desk since April 19th.Gapper tells us that the broadcasters lot is not a happy one. The explosion is ...

The Jamie Oliver effect: school dinner firms feel the cost of parental backlash

Thursday, May 18th, 2006Anyone interested in social networking should be aware of Reeds Law and the exponential power of (Group Forming Networks).Whilst flying to Helsinki this morning, I reflected on GFN's and Jamie Oliver School Dinner Campaign. We blogged about ...

Regime change for the mighty $

Monday, May 15th, 2006People that know Tomi and I, understand that we look at the world in a joined up way. For me it is the process that allows us to see patterns of change, which will ultimately impact on our day-to-day lives, ...

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