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 ...
Friday, November 13th, 2009
I have been asked to make a presentation about the New Rules of Customer Engagement Monday 16th November organised by Canvas8 and takes place in the offices of the architects BDP. You can find out more information here.
Also on the ...
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
I am often asked what we do @ SMLXL here's a film that provides a brief overview of the SMLXL philosophy, and some examples of the type of work and projects we have undertaken over the last few years.
From Interruption ...
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 ...
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
The guys at Freedom Lab - have set up a shop on the Spreadshirt platform - selling T-shirts with quotes from various people they have interviewed as part of their future studies program.
Here's mine
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
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Two cornerstones of classic economic theory are the assumptions that individuals are rational decision makers and individuals have purely self-regarding preferences. These assumptions fly in the face of most psychological ...
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 ...
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 ...
Friday, June 27th, 2008
A piece of elegiac and beautiful writing from Malcolm Gladwell - though there is a point to its inclusion on CDB the title is called Designs for Working
In the early nineteen-sixties, Jane Jacobs lived on Hudson ...
Alan has addressed, radio, television, and conference audiences globally. His book and his articles have been published many respected magazines, journals and newspapers globally.
16th March Ballroom B. My @sxsw presentation that covers the themes and topics of The No Straight Lines Project, so come along to cheer me along, heckle or profoundly disagree with my point of view.