Archive for the ‘Government & Politics’ Category

The media, censorship and democracy in Ecuador, UK, US

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Very 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 UKA key point...reasonable people may differ on what is the ...

Alan Moore speaking @ sxsw 2010

Monday, January 11th, 2010This 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 ...

Patrick Holden discusses food security @ Do Lectures

Thursday, January 7th, 2010Patrick Holden was brought up in London. He visited a dairy farm near Epping aged five and decided he wanted to milk cows. He studied biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College in 1972 and started a community farm in West Wales ...

Networked television – we’ve only just begun

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Sang the Carpenters, all those years ago.The next decade will see the continuing transformation of television, with video becoming more personal and democratic as new networks subvert and transcend the broadcast model. Dr William Cooper of the convergent communications consultancy ...

Patrick Dixon on the global economy

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

David Rosenberg on building a sustainable world

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010David has emerged as a world leader in sustainable construction innovation and has lead Hycrete admixture through the very first Cradle to Cradle certification. He has participated in numerous conferences around the US and the world, including a closed panel ...

Old world new world the journey to enterprise 2.0

Thursday, December 10th, 2009Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business at MIT and recently wrote an article in the Financial Times, I would like to quote Andrew from the article but I can't,Copyright The Financial Times Limited ...

Humanity does not follow the straight line rule

Sunday, December 6th, 2009Jane Young has put together a very easy to understand set of thoughts that go to the very heart of of my current work. The communications revolution driven by a fundamental human need to connect and collaborate, and what that ...

The Do Lectures, the Achuar speak truth to power

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Gregor made a powerful presentation at the Do Lectures his topic theĀ  threat to the Amazon rain forest. Harnessing the collective intelligence of the tribe, he showcases The Atwa, who embrace the state, pens and paper, GPS mapping technology, YouTube, ...

Local Motors: a business model of our times

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009[caption id="attachment_4729" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Local Motors: the car the people built Online and Offline"][/caption]Recently I wrote a series of posts called Commonwealth in the Networked Society. There was one on Big Pharma and open source, one on open source mobility ...

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