BankerVision used to work at Microsoft but he’s just stripped his home of all Microsoft devices in favour of Open Source. He’s pretty happy about the results. And asks this question:
..if these Generation-C folk can create a better operating system for free than the folks at Redmond with billions to spend on R&D what might fantastic things might Generation-C do for financial services?
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.
How our creativity can get hijacked if we allow it to get attached to symbols
Steve Moore pointed me to this article by John Kay: Shallow lesson of business books. It’s a succinct counterblast to the plethora of “do it like me” business books and
Over in Denmark my friend Jesper Bindslev has been trying a new approach to meetings. Today I introduced the frame “quick and dirty” at work to introduce a practice I
Homelessness: Cutting out the middle men | The Economist Interesting research suggests just giving the homeless money rather than advice or other forms of support, might be more effective. Also
