Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category

The death of the Affluent Society

Monday, May 1st, 2006The BBC reportedJohn Kenneth Galbraith was by far the most famous economic thinker of his day. Populist and media-friendly, he used television to explain and defend his liberal ideas.Galbraith famously saidOnly the community, reflects the well ...

More on MySpace

Monday, April 24th, 2006Via Therepublic.com These activities are exploring the nature of identity, establishing peer networks and making a public sphere of influence

Why the net should stay neutral

Saturday, April 1st, 2006Is it time to let internet companies provide premium access to paying websites and services? No, says technology commentator Bill ThompsonVia the BBC websiteThanks to Lawrence Lessig for the hat tip

When push comes to pull: the new economy & culture of the networked society

Thursday, March 30th, 2006I have been reading the Aspen Institutes latest ouvre, entitled When push comes to pull. The new economy & culture of networking technologyWhich resonates deeply with Communities Dominate Brands.David Bollier the author states If the world seems a confusing ...

When push comes to pull: a new paradigm

Thursday, March 30th, 2006I have been reading the Aspen Institutes latest ouvre, entitled When push comes to pull. The new economy & culture of networking technologyWhich resonates deeply with Communities Dominate Brands.David Bollier the author states If the world seems a confusing ...

Gooogle is passé and comment is free

Friday, March 24th, 2006Google is now in danger of being pass? - as a purely mechanical way of finding informationSays Alan Rushbridger Editor of the GuradianFurther And just to be "really terrifying", hundreds of sites are scraping the ads out ...

Google is passé

Friday, March 24th, 2006Google is now in danger of being passé - as a purely mechanical way of finding informationSays Alan Rushbridger Editor of the GuardianFurther And just to be "really terrifying", hundreds of sites are scraping the ads out ...

Children benefit from exposure to digital culture

Monday, March 20th, 2006Children benefit from exposure to digital culture Children need to participate fully in digital culture in order to develop the "skills, knowledge, ethical frameworks and self-confidence needed to be full participants in the world around them," MIT Professor Henry ...

The digital holes in the digital cheese

Friday, March 17th, 2006Rupert Murdoch talked about being either a digital immigrant or a digital native and then went and bought the holes in the digital cheese - though he did not realise it.I was thinking about the how an industrialised ...

Communities Contexulalize Brands

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006This review of our book - (always great that someone is reading us). Meant a great deal to Tomi and I, as its diamond drilling down into our theories was so well done.Rob Kleine at Digito Society says ...

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