Archive for the ‘Law’ Category

The new rules of customer engagement

Friday, November 13th, 2009I have been asked to make a presentation about the New Rules of Customer Engagement Monday 16th November organised by Canvas8 and takes place in the offices of the architects BDP. You can find out more information here.Also on the ...

Transparency and the web a rolling debate

Thursday, November 12th, 2009Lawrence Lessig raises what will be a increasingly intense debate, and the perils of openness in governmentIf health care reform ever emerges from Congress, it is certain to spread nationally a project to require doctors to reveal to an Internet-linked ...

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 ...

Is Britain ready for the networked society?

Monday, November 2nd, 2009The economist wrote an article called The Great Giveaway in which it takes a critical look at the decentralising of government into the shires. Local decision making gets passed down from central government to local government.A great deal of this ...

The no straight lines of authentic value in the networked society [2]

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4547" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Industrial society is exhausted by its resistance to the networked society"][/caption]Carlota Perez in Technological Revolution and Financial Capital : the dynamics of bubbles and golden ages, mourns the fact that as a new economy takes hold, ...

The no straight lines of authentic value in the networked society

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009I sit on the board of inspiration at the Dutch Think Tank Freedom Lab - the boys have been running a series of interviews within their network. And then turning these into short animated films. I have not looked at ...

The end of TV as we know it: hyperland

Friday, October 9th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4521" align="aligncenter" width="413" caption="TV the culture hearth of the family home?"][/caption]If found this post over at Russell Davies's gaff online. Russell has such a lovely turn of phrase dontchya think? Although as someone also said to me. 'sometimes Alan ...

Social Media Monitoring 09 update

Friday, October 9th, 2009You can't move for falling over the word social media, I personally have a point of view on the phrase 'social media' but we can save that for a rainy day. My good friend Luke Brynley-Jones is putting what looks ...

Democracy lock down – but where is that exactly?

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009But its a bit complicated. However I think that communication technologies today are so powerful within a networked context that we are going to witness things we never thought possible - good and bad. In my lifetime I never ever ...

SMLXL: business and communications innovation

Friday, October 2nd, 2009I am often asked what we do @ SMLXL here's a film that provides a brief overview of the SMLXL philosophy, and some examples of the type of work and projects we have undertaken over the last few years.From Interruption ...

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