I’ve booked my place at Russell’s Interesting2007 conference. (June 16 London) The basic concept: to try to do a TED at a tiny fraction of the cost.
I’m also almost certainly going to go to Reboot again this year. A bit like Euan, I think I may pass on presenting and just go to enjoy myself.
I have a rule of thumb that the interest level of conferences is negatively correlated with the price. Which bodes well for both of these!
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.
I think that business suffers from the tyranny of the explicit. Its desire for measurability and proof makes it focus on the explicit element of what happens in human relationships.
There’s a good post by Fred Wilson: Hacking Education (continued). Here’s a couple of snippets but I urge you to read it all. The education system we currently have was
Neil Turner points to Why a powerbook is better than a girlfriend. The table had me laughing out loud.
I like what Chris Mowles has to say about John Dewey and Doubt as a form of enquiry. Dewey was interested in experimentation and argued that traditions of thought, such
