Archive for the ‘Networks’ Category

When data flows things happen

Friday, November 20th, 2009 A cartographer out and about while mapping for the Ordnance Survey The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April, in a victory for the Guardian's three-year Free Our Data campaign. The move ...

The new rules of customer engagement

Friday, November 13th, 2009 I 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, 2009 Lawrence Lessig raises what will be a increasingly intense debate, and the perils of openness in government If health care reform ever emerges from Congress, it is certain to spread nationally a project to require doctors to reveal to an Internet-linked ...

Networked organisations: the starfish revolution

Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Samples from Smartmobs and orginated by Michael Leeden Several thoughtful people have commented on an unusual element in the Iranian revolutionary movement, aka “The Green Path of Hope.”  Although there is a troika (Mousavi, Karroubi and Khatami) that inspires many of ...

Murdoch, news, the truth and something inbetween

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 Jay Rosen pointed to this on twitter - a great article about Rupert Murdoch, When Rupert Murdoch speaks, he's either lying or filibustering. The only sensible time to listen for him is when he's running silent. I agree with everything that Jack ...

Lessons for brands and media of the 21st Century

Friday, November 6th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4654" align="aligncenter" width="454" caption="FantaLife Beach"][/caption] Getting out of the ad spot into the fabric of peoples lives, requires some rethinking on communication, and the panacea is not "social media". Henry Jenkins in his 8 part investigation into what he and ...

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 ...

Cultural production in the age of sharing

Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Cory Doctorow, from Boing Boing discusses his latest publishing venture. This is as non-linear as it gets in terms of thinking how business works in this networked wired up world. And fascinatingly enough its all about people, people connecting, information flowing, ...

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 ...

Music + emotion + context + discovery = networked economics

Friday, October 30th, 2009 The interest in both the prospect of Beatles downloads and the big sales of their re-released CDs highlights an increasingly important back-catalogue business within the embattled music industry. Struggling to earn money on new artists, record labels are mining their ...