Archive for the ‘Identity’ Category

Our 2.0 destiny with data

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010Refined Data, is the black gold of the 21st Century (SMLXL posts on data) something we have been writing about since 1995. We even wrote a book about it, as did Tony Fish (My Digital Footprint) So now The World ...

The Futures Agency takes off

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010I am proud to be part of the Futures Agency today which launches officially today. Gerd writes,Today I am delighted to officially announce my new company, The Futures Agency (TFA). TFA is based in Basel, Switzerland and is currently comprised ...

Mobile enterprise in Latin America

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010For two months this year, I travelled through Latin America on a speaking tour with Blackberry called, The Blackberry Collaboration Forum.My topic, was how mobile communications could enable businesses to be more effective, more engaged, to work smarter and leaner. ...

tattoos, identity and meaning [2]

Saturday, October 9th, 2010I am writing this post as my old friend David O'Hanlon asked a question to my post on Tattoo's, identity and meaning that I think requires a somewhat in-depth response. Patrick Skinner is a PHD student at Cambridge University, his ...

Tattoos, identity and meaning

Friday, October 8th, 2010One of the aspects of the networked that I think is oft overlooked is not to do with technology but with people, something that I explore in some depth in the forthcoming No Straight Lines book and project. How do ...

Journey’s in augmented reality

Sunday, September 19th, 2010Picked this post up from Layar co-founder, M. Lens-FitzGerald. Urban Augmented Realities and Social Augmentations that Matter: Talking with Bruce Sterling, Part 2The post is well worth a read, and I picked this nuggetJesse Schell described the importance of AR ...

the diversity of language, media and youtube

Sunday, July 18th, 2010[caption id="attachment_5555" align="aligncenter" width="239" caption="Like nature, we are diverse"][/caption]It was Noam Chomsky in the 60's that developed a view that we (humanity) was programmed with a universal language DNA. But what if the very diversity of languages is the key ...

Linda Stone and human attention

Friday, July 2nd, 2010[caption id="attachment_5470" align="aligncenter" width="260" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7577137@N04/2923238790"][/caption]The economist Herbert Simon, once wrote,What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention... The only factor becoming scarce in ...

No Straight Lines interview @dishymix

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Here is a link to the interview that I had with the fabulous Susan Bratton of DishyMix.It was said that Alan Moore sounded like a character from a Guy Ritchie movie at his SXSW keynote. Skyping in from Over, England (a ...

The digital you: identity and privacy in the networked society

Saturday, April 10th, 2010Here is a concise 5minute presentation I gave at Mashup recently. Thanks to the guys (Tony and Simon) for inviting me, it was certainly an interesting and stimulating evening. Not that I was surprised, but, by the time all presenters ...

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