George Soros has started blogging. (Via BoingBoing)
Blogging for Ourhouse
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
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Keeping up with Tony Goodson
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.
The power of community
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.
Collaboration
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking – and worrying – about collaboration. I think the ability to collaborate effectively is becoming ever more essential
David Bowie says IP is in for a bashing
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
Just Undo It?
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
Trust and NGOs
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
Spam comments and the power of community
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
Google translates compliments well… but strangles a lot of stuff!
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
SharpReader
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.
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Completing each other
These two posts crossed my path recently, and seem related: First, Quinn Norton has a terrific essay called Everything is Broken. This is the central point: It’s hard to explain
22 May 2014
Why we meet
Viv puts the case for informal conferences instead of keynotes and panels. Makes good sense to me. After all, that’s why we get together – not to find answers that
13 April 2010
The Corporation
Over in Beyond Branding I’ve blogged Robert Paterson [UPDATE linking me to this efilmcritic review] of the provocative documentary, The Corporation. Here’s a snippet: The Corporation is comprehensive, damning, brilliant
14 January 2004
When someone walks in the room
Matt mentioned something in our podcast that gives me an excuse to refer to this YouTube clip again. We were talking about power and what happens when someone in authority
3 October 2007
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