Archive for the ‘Retail’ Category

Patrick Holden discusses food security @ Do Lectures

Thursday, January 7th, 2010 Patrick Holden was brought up in London. He visited a dairy farm near Epping aged five and decided he wanted to milk cows. He studied biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College in 1972 and started a community farm in West Wales ...

Crystal knuckle dusters

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 [caption id="attachment_4946" align="aligncenter" width="460" caption="This would be awesome even if it wasn't titled "I'm going to realign your chakras, mother******." "][/caption]   The caption to this piece reads, (Via My Love For You.) And what has that got to do with anything? Nothin' ...

Ahem google in case you don’t know sharing drives commerce

Saturday, December 5th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4768" align="aligncenter" width="379" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16230215@N08/4066005402"][/caption] WHY is Google winning? And what does it tell us about the future?A fortnight ago, Rupert Murdoch told Australian Sky that he would stop Google from indexing all of his content, preventing it from becoming a ...

Gabriel Branby speaking @ the Do Lectures

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 I loved Gabriel's presentation @ the Do Lectures. This is what Do say about Gabriel Gränsfors make one the finest forged axes in the world. It has become more than just an axe. It is an icon for quality and a ...

Local Motors: a business model of our times

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4729" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Local Motors: the car the people built Online and Offline"][/caption] Recently I wrote a series of posts called Commonwealth in the Networked Society. There was one on Big Pharma and open source, one on open source mobility ...

Communities Dominate Brands – prescient

Saturday, August 1st, 2009 Tim Harrap in a twitter post mentioned a conversation @ Marketing in Australia that identifies Communities Dominate Brands as being – prescient. We have become linked to what is now commonly called Social Media - thought I still prefer the ...

Widgets, people and the web

Friday, October 10th, 2008 Dave Cushman presented his thoughts on how people become the key distributors of information in the networked society Dave mentions Reed's Law - the law of group forming networks. Another thought that has crossed my mind is that there is a ...

The True Promise of the Mobile Society – Access, Communication & Business

Friday, October 3rd, 2008 I am speaking at an event in Slovenia in November and I was asked to write something about my presentation. I thought it was worth sharing  It is often said that that what works in one country, does not work in ...

All the rest is Spam, spam, spam, spam

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Sitting here at JFK this caught my eye All the rest is spam by my friend DC @ Fasterfuture blogspot David mentions a Scott Karp post Why Traditional Advertising Formats Fail On The Web He should have said ...

The economics of abundance and human behaviour

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention. Said the economist Herbert ...