The Communication Ideal
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Books, Broadcast, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Research, Ethics, Generation C, Law, Marketing, Mobile, Music, Networks, Participation, Society, Strategy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »I met Jonathan MacDonald whilst working on the launch of Blyk last year. You might say it was love at first sight. I can remember on one occassion a particuarly charged group meeting, with J-Mac sitting on my shoulder egging me ...
The Craftsman and the special human need of being engaged
Monday, November 17th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Research, Marketing, Participation, Philosophy, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »I have been reading Richard Sennett's book The Craftsman. And is something that I want to dwell on in a few posts. Defining craftsmanship far more broadly than “skilled manual labor,” Richard Sennett maintains that the computer programmer, the doctor, the ...
Is this news or PR?
Friday, November 7th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Economics, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Research, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs | No Comments »How the Millennial Generation connects is an article in the FT... E-mail is so 1998. IM-ing, texting, Twittering? Now we're talking - or to be more specific, that's how the next-generation workforce is talking. As the "Millennials" establish themselves in the workplace, ...
Robert, Flickr and the $235 Paul Smith sweatshirt
Friday, November 7th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Ethics, News, Society | No Comments »In the networked world, the only thing worse than being sampled is not being sampled. said Siva Vaidhyanathan. Which brings us nicely to the story of Robert, Flickr and a Paul Smith sweatshirt costing $235. [caption id="attachment_797" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Robs design compared with ...
ProPublica versus the Grocers
Saturday, October 18th, 2008 Posted in Citizen journalism, Ethics, Government & Politics, Newspapers, Participation, Society, Trends | No Comments »ProPublica.org aims to make up some of the ground lost to journalism by the current crisis of advertising revenues bleeding to the internet. In particular, it seeks to preserve the skills and value of investigative reporting one of the first ...
Doing the right thing
Saturday, October 18th, 2008 Posted in Darwin, Economics, Society | 1 Comment »How the Credit Crisis Could Forge a New Financial Order
The bull market for humility
Friday, October 17th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Darwin, Economics, Ethics, Quotes, Society, Trends | No Comments »This disproportionality has been tested to destruction by the recent hysteria of City incomes. The result is that, after a decade of widening wealth differentials, they should start to narrow. Non-economic components of what we vaguely refer to as the good life will take ...
There are more keys on my piano Mr McCain
Friday, October 17th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Ethics, Events, Government & Politics, Quotes, Society | No Comments »I do say that Americans have looked long and hard at the candidates this past month and are now minded to conclude, in the fine phrase used by Garrison Keillor of a speech he heard the young Kennedy give long ago, that Obama ...
C’mon everybody
Sunday, October 12th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Marketing, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends | 1 Comment »in Widgets, People and the Web - I pointed to David Cushman and his thoughts about how humans become in a world of ubiquitous social computing the very nervous systems upon which future commerce and all other things will be ...
Periodic Table of Videos
Monday, October 6th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Generation C, Media, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »The Periodic Table of Videos is something that Euan picked as one of his fav's of the web and 12 Seconds There are some that decry the web as a place that kills culture. I just can't figure out what ...
