In preparation for a visit by Tim Berners-Lee, the folks at NESTA asked people via twitter to send in short statements of their best hopes and worst fears for the future of the internet. Then they generated these two clouds:
(Disclosure – I’m doing some work for NESTA at the moment)
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.
When facilitating I’m keen to avoid what I call commitment ceremonies. There’s often pressure as workshops/awaydays near a close for some process that gets people to agree on what actions
The label “plenary vortex” occurred to me the other day. It describes something quite destructive that seems to happen a lot in meetings of much size. Once you get more
Clarke Ching‘s enthusiastic response to my earler post about Friends in Low Places provoked me to read further. Dr James Willis has put his book online. Here’s a sample of
Dennis Whittle: If You Can Flip a Coin, Can You Be an Expert? Short and fascinating. Recipients of aid are asked to tell stories about the experience and then tag
