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
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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
Like many others I’ve been getting more and more bogus comments from Spammers promoting their sites. So, having delayed for a while, I’ve just installed
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
The Illusion of Control | zen habits "When you think you control something you’re wrong.It’s amazing how often we think we’re in control of something when really we aren’t. Control
I’m not saying it’s always a bad idea. But it usually is. I mean the conventional thing we seem to do after listening to presentations: the audience is invited to
Two interesting posts on practice: Chris Corrigan’s The purpose of practice is practice Practicing kindness possibility seeking and deep listening on a daily basis ingrains those skills and capacities. It
I had a great meeting yesterday with Jack Martin Leith who has done more thinking about things like innovation and change and is refreshingly cynical about much conventional thinking about
