Archive for the ‘Science’ Category

GSK and the exporting of mental illness

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 After writing about Naomi Klein yesterday and the superbranding of politics. I came across a thought piece in New Scientist called Invasion of the mind snatchers by Ethan Watters. His story is one that around the world in different cultures, we ...

Ecotopia

Monday, November 16th, 2009 My good friend Andy Middleton is organising an event called Ecotopia - December 4th 2009 So if you want to follow the No Straight Line rule of doing something. Get over to and get stuck in with Ecotopia. Become the change you ...

Humanity a meme/gene machine

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 Copying, 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?

Making sense of the world we live in through micro narratives and data

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 Cognitive Edge

Commonwealth in the networked society [3] Big pharma

Sunday, October 11th, 2009 Big banks, big pharma, big problems, writes John Martin, MONEY has thrown society out of kilter. Banks that once appeared to have mountains of cash have collapsed. As a consequence of the global recession, governments now recognise that banking is too ...

Bacterial finance

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 Now such a title could bring to the surface all kinds of ideas, some of them not very pleasant, however, Harvey Rubin argues that financial institutions have a great deal to learn from nature, Whether you call the current financial situation ...

A reality check for augmented reality

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 After posting about mobile augmented reality here and here I came across an article in New Scientist I disagree, with the wobbly start headline, but I liked the reality check. Something that was reinforced recently by AR specialist Robert Rice, he ...

Whose doing what in a community?

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 Websites where users can organize and share information are flourishing, but it can be hard to know which users and information to trust. Now a team of European researchers has developed an algorithm that ranks the expertise of users and ...

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 ...

Is that distributed cloud computing on the horizon?

Monday, December 1st, 2008 A hundred years ago, companies stopped generating their own power with steam engines and dynamos and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities didn’t just change how businesses operate. It set off ...