I think we’ve barely scratched the surface of how networks could change the way we live our lives.
David Weinberger lists a few fascinating projects that use web technologies to enliven our politics. David says
Lots and lots going on building an infrastructure of facts and relationships that is direclty valuable, but perhaps even more important, will be the source for mashups and visualizations we haven’t yet thought of.
Update: Jake Shapiro has some good coverage too.
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.
A tweet from Rob Paterson pointed me to John Robb’s post Industrial Education. I’ve thought for a long time that our current university system has become prohibitively expensive and vulnerable
There used to be a stereotype in England of the seaside landlady who put up a list of unpleasant rules for her guests, usually including the requirement that they be
Thanks to Matt Tucker at Smith Associates for telling me about What Brand Are You. It strikes me that lots of companies waste money on superficial rebranding exercises and I
Evelyn Rodriguez reflects on Flexing Mental Muscles. Perhaps the nub is two paragraphs quoted from The Power of Impossible Thinking. “The first kind of learning, which is far more common
