Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Creating economic value in; content, social communication and Mobility

Friday, March 27th, 2009Was the guts of Gerd Leonhards presentation at the Nokia Siemens Transformation conference in Cologne this week.Fascinating stuff, and I was very glad that we got to shake hands and have a good chat too.Gerds argument is that the global ...

Currency of information – the future of newspapers

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009The future of newspapers is a bit like climate change: there are now far fewer ‘old-media’ deniers. said Alan RushbridgerIn December last year I wroteI predict we will see newspapers fail, the economic downturn is the final scene in this ...

Lord Carter and the networked society

Monday, February 23rd, 2009I suppose Lord Carter thinks peer-to-peer networking is him having a chat with Lord Mandelson in the back of the ministerial limo.Insightful, visionary, implicit knowledge articulated as a piece of poetry.Johnny Moore nice one.I think this is in response to ...

The shopping mall that is Van Diemens land

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009The suburban dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.Wrote J.G. Ballard in Kingdom Come, in fact Ballard's novel ...

The fall of Tom Daschle and the rise of public man

Saturday, February 7th, 2009I picked up Jay Rosen's link to a TV interview with BIll Moyers, which focused on the recent mini-crisis of Tom Daschle's nomination to be head of Health and Human services.And I picked up the FT this morning to find ...

The Enlightenment 2008

Friday, February 6th, 2009Joachim at Freedom Lab, writes about shifts in young people's attitudes and approach to life. He references Neil HoweHowe says that the new generation of today, the millenials, are typically stereotyped with the characteristics of generation X. They are expected ...

Freedom of speech at the LSE

Friday, January 23rd, 2009Archbishop Cranmer is reporting that Douglas Murray has been banned from chairing a meeting on Islam at the London School of Economics because of "concerns about public safety". The debate was called "Islam or Liberalism: Which is the Way Forward?" ...

The holy grail of public service broadcasting

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008well some people might think so?Thompson described "the plan" as "potentially the holy grail of future public service broadcasting provision in the UK"The plan Stan is thisThe BBC said its proposals to share its online and digital technology would provide ...

Use the source Barack use the source

Monday, December 8th, 2008The open source force behind the Obama campaignA great post on Barack's campaign for the presidency which compliments some posts I have writtenSince the dawn of mass media, the most obvious activity of political campaigns — especially presidential ones — ...

The glittering allure of the mobile society

Thursday, December 4th, 2008[caption id="attachment_2644" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image: Scott Beale @ laughingsquid.com"][/caption]In February of this year I found myself on a cold and rainy day in Evian, at the behest of Microsoft at an international summit for CIO’s to give the final keynote ...

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