the current New Yorker has a brilliantly reported, eye-popping piece “Battle Lessons: What the Generals Don’t Know.” It’s a report on the way in which junior officers in Iraq are using the Web to teach each other
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.
Thanks to Wayne at Cutting Through for pointing to Darknet: Remixing the Future of Movies, Music and Television . Author JD Lasica is walking his talk. This is a Wiki
Mark Earls and are going to host an Improv Arvo on Saturday November 1st 3pm-6pm in London SE1. Just an afternoon for friends and anyone else interested to get together.
I like Kathy and Eric’s Headrush blog. And today’s entry – Learning doesn’t happen in the middle! – is summed up rather well in this graphic:
As I’ve said before, I’m sceptical of most conversations containing the word leadership. But once in a while a really interesting definition of it comes along. This one is from
