My friend Jennifer Rice has just started a new business, Fruitful, to help/encourage companies that emphasise social good. It’s great to see Jennifer heading out on her own again and it seems to have coincided with a return to blogging.
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Welcome to the Ourhouse Weblog. Blogging is something I’ve become increasingly interested in. Earlier this month I set up the Beyond Branding Blog which is
The competitive streak in me means I need to keep with Tony Goodson’s blog. The struggles of learning to speak “Movable Type” and thoughts on the nature of blogging.
Earlier today I was writing about passion brands and the power of community. I got a small but interesting example of this principle in action when I visited Ton Zijltra’s blog to find that he’s opened a separate blog on his planned abandonment of Microsoft.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking – and worrying – about collaboration. I think the ability to collaborate effectively is becoming ever more essential
The AntiBrand: blackSpot sneakers, a project by Adbusters attacks Nike directly. In doing so they take on what has become one of the great icons
My friend Olaf Brugman has invited me to take part in a workshop in Brussels on October 29th. It looks set to be an interesting
The Church of the Customer blog quotes an NY Times interview with David Bowie who says: I’m fully confident that copyright for instance, will no
I’ve just started to suffer from Spam comments the latest effort by these wretches to publicise their sites. They basically post fatuous comments to weblogs
At the NGO conference (blogged yeserday and the day before) I met Martin Roell a German blogger and e-business guru. He’s blogged the event in
I’ve finally started paying attention to RSS and all this stuff about “Blog Aggregators”. The final shove was wanting to get Martin Roell’s English feed.
In the Spirit of Improv, I’m working to look on the bright side of being disabled on the computer front. To be honest sitting in this humid internet cafe it’s
I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big social change and simultaneously see
I’m not a huge fan of moral codes but I thought the tips for satirists at Wealth Bondage was very engaging. Here’s one of the 15 points: 7. Often the
Two nice videos exploring how complexity emerges from simple interactions. (Click here if you can’t see the embedded clips.) Complexity depends on how connected the parts are to each other.
