Archive for the ‘Web/Tech’ Category

I get a 70% royalty for publishing my book

Thursday, January 21st, 2010Quite extraordinary, I thought when reading about how Amazon is reaching out to authors in a manner that completely disintermediates publishing companies. And publishers as we know them are not happy campers at the moment.Arjan from Freedom Lab linked to ...

Networked television – we’ve only just begun

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Sang the Carpenters, all those years ago.The next decade will see the continuing transformation of television, with video becoming more personal and democratic as new networks subvert and transcend the broadcast model. Dr William Cooper of the convergent communications consultancy ...

Alice Taylor a Doer speaks @ Do

Sunday, December 20th, 2009Alice Taylor commissions cross-platform educational content for 14-19 year olds, aiming to get useful, life-helpful information to teens via their most favoured platforms and formats. She specializes in videogames and virtual worlds, and Channel 4 Education’s 2009 slate includes Routes, ...

What has happened to creativity?

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Something has happened to Britain's creative community and there's no better way to understand this than to go back to a speech that Graham Greene, one of the most admired novelists of his day, gave in Germany in 1969 "on ...

Old world new world the journey to enterprise 2.0

Thursday, December 10th, 2009Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business at MIT and recently wrote an article in the Financial Times, I would like to quote Andrew from the article but I can't,Copyright The Financial Times Limited ...

Straight line thinking stops here @ INSEAD

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009Its planes, trains and automobiles as I travel to day to speak at the Web 2.0 symposium which takes place at INSEAD as from tomorrow. The topic:Inter-Organizational Learning and Competence Development: Web 2.0 Experiences and TrendsFrom e-Learning to Web 2.0 ...

Dear Rupert Murdoch, a lesson in networked media creation

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009Tom Taylor gave a presentation at the Do Lectures, Printing newspapers, hacking analogue technology and connecting into the this wired up world was powerful stuff, and resonated with my talk which argued that we need to use a new language ...

The Do Lectures, the Achuar speak truth to power

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Gregor made a powerful presentation at the Do Lectures his topic the  threat to the Amazon rain forest. Harnessing the collective intelligence of the tribe, he showcases The Atwa, who embrace the state, pens and paper, GPS mapping technology, YouTube, ...

Navigating in the networked society

Friday, November 6th, 2009Howard Rheingold gives us a short lesson on how to build aggregated, filtered, personalised information

Music + emotion + context + discovery = networked economics [2]

Saturday, October 31st, 2009SoundCloud is fast becoming the preferred streaming host for big name musicians writes Chris Salmon. Moby is using it to air his new album. Sound cloud allows people to listen and comment to the track but also specific parts of ...

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