Following my post about disintermediating education I was interested to see that the Khan Academy has posted over 800 videos on Youtube teaching algebra, economics etc etc. When course content is as free as this it creates exciting challenges for educational institutions to create value for students elsewhere.
Hat tip: Dan Colman on the excellent Open Culture blog.
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.
Francois at Emergence Marketing partly prompted by my post about Orange and partly by his own recent experiences, asks, “why do companies spend so little attention to the quality of
…is not to generalise about the blogosphere says Chris Anderson. I agree with his sentiment. The trouble is, we all need to generalise from time-to-time, so perhaps we just shouldn’t
I like the idea of unhurried leadership. I’ve written about it on the Unhurried website and I thought I’d share it here too. I have to admit to disliking simple
I’ve been using my Artefact Cards this week. They’re a product developed in the last couple of years by my friend John Willshere. I like them, for all sorts of
