Archive for the ‘Philosophy’ Category

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 ...

Humanity a meme/gene machine

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Copying, 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?

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 ...

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 ...

Grit in the mill

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009From Euan's post about Johnnie Moore's postJohnnie Moore wrote today:All this inventive technology is being made available to just about anyone with a web connection. How does it compare for engagement and collaboration with anything inside the firewall of organisations? ...

The economics of happiness

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Does identikit suburban life leave you cold? Do you long for your children to grow up as part of a bigger community, where there's always help close at hand? Perhaps you are just looking to live a simpler, low-carbon existence, complete ...

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 ...

I suppose going back to the way things were is a bit out of the question?

Friday, October 2nd, 2009Euan Semple writes about his antipathy to the phrase Enterprise 2.0,Stowe Boyd wrote today about his discomfort with the phrase Enterprise 2.0 and his preference for "social business" as a way of describing the changes we are seeing currently. While ...

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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