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Intractable dilemmas in science funding and venture capital

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011Thought provoking post by Lucy P. Marcus on venture capital and science funding: A perfect storm: global shifts in venture capital and science funding. Lucy writes,The whole spectrum of sciences, including vitally important areas such as cleantech, life sciences and ...

FC United and DIY communities

Thursday, January 13th, 2011So here's the thing – Man United a great club, great tradition, epic success, epic tragedy. In fact Man U is an institution. Friends of mine describe the place of worship "Old Trafford" as an extraordinary place, and whether you ...

Hacking Microsoft’s Kinect

Sunday, December 5th, 2010Over 10 million people bought a Kinect in the first 10 days of launch, a reward ($1000) was offered by Adafruit, for Hackers to get Kinect to run on alternative operating systems. Microsoft announced it would bring in the legal ...

Open innovation is not a free ride

Friday, October 29th, 2010This post all starts with Cheese. It starts with Thayer Prime mentioning Neals Yard Cheese (: Btw cheese lovers: Neal's Yard have a rather amazing blue goat's cheese in stock at the moment. It is *incredible*. #cheese 6:26pm, Oct ...

The problem with Murdoch’s media

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010Henry Porter discusses some of the key criteria as to why Vince Cable has such an important contribution to  make in controlling total media and therefore political power currently wielded by Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp. This follows on ...

tattoos, identity and meaning [2]

Saturday, October 9th, 2010I am writing this post as my old friend David O'Hanlon asked a question to my post on Tattoo's, identity and meaning that I think requires a somewhat in-depth response. Patrick Skinner is a PHD student at Cambridge University, his ...

News.me = mutuality

Friday, September 17th, 2010So its no surprise thatThe New York Times Is Preparing Social News Service Dubbed News.meThe future of newsbrands? 

Do Village says try the flipboard

Monday, August 2nd, 2010The guys over at Do Village suggest trying the Flipboard App for the iPad - watching this video I have gotta say I am inspired. Both by the Do Village Blog and the this app. So get over to the ...

Requiem for Detroit or time to kick out the jams?

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010[caption id="attachment_5507" align="aligncenter" width="461" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23368962@N00/503069237"][/caption]We came across the BBC2 Documentary about Detroit recently, and today I sat down and watched it again and made some notes.There is a section in the film where we are told that at one point ...

All you need is love – MLove is all you need

Sunday, June 27th, 2010Last week I was speaking @ participating and co-creating in an event called MLove. Which was held in Beesenstedt in an old Schloss, in the middle of nowhere. When we landed in Altenburg, our driver said "welcome to nowhere. I ...

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