Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

GSK and the exporting of mental illness

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 ...

The future of work=TxtEagle

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, ...

A life better lived by Katie Ledger

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 When I started my career, I remember standing in the offices of Bartle Bogle Hegarty. As a young creative looking for a job I had my portfolio with me – a creative director was looking through my work. Definitely an ...

Alan Moore speaking @ sxsw 2010

Monday, January 11th, 2010 This 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 ...

Mobile futures

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 I was asked whether I would like to make a few predictions around mobile, networks, commerce and culture by Rudy de Waele. I joined a very interesting collective to share my views and I was fascinated by what everyone of ...

Old world new world the journey to enterprise 2.0

Thursday, December 10th, 2009 Andrew 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 a meme/gene machine

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 Copying, with variation and selection. Susan Blackmore gives a highly entertaining presentation. Meme machines and gene machines and Techno-memes is the her passion. She says that we are merging with technology... how far will we converge?

Communication power, who has it?

Thursday, November 5th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4642" align="aligncenter" width="379" caption="Paris riots"][/caption] Well we did say Communities Dominate Brands! In an interview with Henry Jenkins he of Participatory Culture and Convergence Culture and even Transmedia storytelling fame, Maxime Cervulle for Poli, a French magazine of media ...

The quiet revolution of cooperation

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4624" align="aligncenter" width="258" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20237352@N00/4002179056"][/caption] America is in the midst of a new revolution. But this revolution is quiet, incremental, nonviolent, and traveling beneath the mainstream media's radar. The new American revolution challenges the current notions of dog-eat-dog capitalism—through the building ...

The no straight lines of city innovation

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 Shareable cities - what is a shareable city Cities are shared spaces. That’s why we gather, in part, to share basic infrastructure, to socialize, to satisfy our human instinct to congregate, to make culture together. The call for a Shareable City simultaneously ...