The truth about school dinners
Thursday, July 13th, 2006We love Jamie Oliver. We have blogged about the cheeky chappy once or twice, :-) and we applaud how he has mastered his own brand, kept his authenticity, and utilised combinations of old media and new media to devastating effect.If ... Ratings:
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Media and identity in Japan
Thursday, July 13th, 2006The first Gran Cyber Café opened in 1999. Today there are 10, serving some 5,000 people a day. Each has a slightly different orientation - some are geared to teenagers, some to salarymen - but the atmosphere is the same ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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A nonprofit Second Life
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006Nedra Weinreich and I have been chatting on the CDB blog and Nedra very kindly sent me a link to a post she had made about non-profit organisations engaging with the virtual world. Nonprofit Life in Second Life[caption id="attachment_2859" ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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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. ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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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 ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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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 ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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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 ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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Seeing Red
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006Product RED was created by Bono and Bobby Shriver, Chairman of DATA to raise awareness and money for The Global Fund by teaming up with the world's most iconic brands to produce RED-branded products. A ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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The death of the Affluent Society
Monday, May 1st, 2006The BBC reportedJohn Kenneth Galbraith was by far the most famous economic thinker of his day. Populist and media-friendly, he used television to explain and defend his liberal ideas.Galbraith famously saidOnly the community, reflects the well ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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The Long Now
Saturday, April 29th, 2006The Long Now Foundation says The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation ... Ratings: (No Ratings Yet)
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