Month: February 2009
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It’s Only Natural
Another good image from Will, featuring research on the cognitive benefits of interacting with nature. I've been doing a lot of running in the countryside round where I live of late. Maybe it's not just my physical fitness I've been improving…
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Always Be Bad At Something You Are Passionate About
Gosh. Two posts about twitter (sort of) in two days. But then before yesterday I'd never posted about it, so I'm hoping I'm due a little slack here. I don't know why I find it so intriguing that the conceptual roots of twitter were in vehicle despatch. But perhaps it's something to do with my…
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Constructive Capitalism
This is an important post for me. I've been carrying it around in my head for a while, struggling to articulate it. Thankfully someone else has done it for me. The video below is a talk by Umair Haque who has been doing some important writing on the subject of the current economic malaise. Like…
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Bothered
Since I presented the community presentation at the conference last week something has been bothering me. My audience at the event was comms planners of about 3/5 years experience. Part of what I talked about in the presentation related to why I thought it was professionally good for them to engage in the wider blogosphere,…
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Post Of The Month – January ’09 – The Winner
This month's vote was a closely fought battle but Eaon's excellent post on Interdependence, Chomsky and the Crowbar finally won through. Well done Eaon. You get the reflected glory of props from your blogging peers and to join Valeria, Dino, Jonathan and Charles in the Think Tank Hall of Fame. Thanks again to everyone for…