Archive for the ‘Society’ Category

Let them eat cake

Monday, December 12th, 2005Anyone that knows me well, knows that I am a lifelong devotee and worshipper of the Apple brand. Indeed I have expoused the virtues of Apple many times at the SMLXL blogWhich is why it pains me to the ...

Liberté, Equalité, Fraternité … err now hold on a second

Friday, December 9th, 2005France may soon enact the worst copyright law in Europe, sneaking it through in a legislative session scheduled for December 22 and 23. says Ming the MechanicWhilst I wonder why the French still don't get it. Command and control ...

RSS + SMS

Thursday, December 8th, 2005This post by Russell Beattie really got me excited.Pause.... I am becoming a tech head? Yikes !Russell says Yahoo! just enabled every blog and news service in the world to update 200 million American mobile consumers instantly. Every ...

Nobody is as clever as everybody

Monday, November 14th, 2005My friend Adam Morgan of Eatbigfish directed me to this site called Pledgebank Its probably best to let Tom Steinberg the founder explain it in his own words. Over to you Tom.We all know what it ...

Requiem for the phone booth

Sunday, November 6th, 2005I heard the other day via the 3G Portal that Finland is decommissioning the phone booth. Nobody uses them any more. And so I reflected on the phone booth and its role in our culture. So to kick off ...

Zopa- A business model of our times

Thursday, October 27th, 2005we've had disruption in telecoms - Skype and music - Napster. Now its the turn of banking I came across this company Zopa (Zone of Possible Agreement). In my mind this is a first rate example of creativity, and people/communities coming ...

The Go Team… Go

Monday, October 10th, 2005I was reading a review of the band Go Team at Pitchforkmedia having read an article about them in a newspaper. and this excerpt caught my attentionThese wondrous abilities are what had me dreading the American ...

Tick tick tock

Monday, September 19th, 2005Naresh Ramchandani wrote a very interesting piece in the Guardian Only true greatness can save us from death by PVRNew broadcast opportunities for advertisers are coming. Sponsorship is already here and will soon be joined by less-regulated product ...

Battling the pirates of the multiplex

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005Whilst spending a month in the United States, I read an interesting article published in the New York Times King Kong vs. the Pirates of the Multiplex August 28 2005. We know the debate and the reality that piracy ...

Living in a consumers republic

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005I came across an interesting book this week by Lizabeth Cohen - Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Dept. History Harvard University. Entitled A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America Cohen explains:What I discovered was ...

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