Month: September 2009
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The Race That Was
A sweaty and knackered me After the race that never was, the race that was. Yesterday I ran my first marathon. When I had to pull out of doing the London Marathon earlier this year due to illness I was massively disappointed, but I set my sights on doing another one before the year was…
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Project 10tothe100
I'm quite fascinated to see how this turns out. Late last year Google launched Project 10tothe100, a "call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible". More than 150,000 ideas from over 170 countries were submitted. Google have grouped them into sixteen broad ideas, each inspired by numerous individual ideas,…
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Continous Partial Media Attention
Gareth's post about MP3s and the peak attention thing reminded me of these three sobering stats (from here) concerning media multitasking (or should I say continuous partial attention): 36% of UK broadband users (aged 16-55) state they have both the TV and Internet on in the same room every day. On weekdays the time when…
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Conformity Has A Higher Value Than Diversity
"So many innovation processes are simply toxic to creating conditions in which people feel moved to acknowledge real needs. Bureaucracies flourish by subordinating spontaneous human responses and awareness to standardised systems. Organisational hierarchy means we're going to be guarding our status before we share anything resembling our vulnerability"Johnnie Moore I think we consistently underestimate the…
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Post Of The Month – August ’09 – The Winner
A clear leader throughout, the winner of this month's Post Of The Month is Tim Malbon's excellent post on serendipity and the web. Well done Tim. As well as the props of your blogging peers, you have the kudos of being our first double winner, and of-course are entered into the Think Tank 'Hall Of…
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Lessons
One year on from the event which triggered the worst banking crisis for decades (some say ever) and the policy makers have done very little to tackle the underlying causes of the deepest recession for 80 years. Meanwhile the Institute for Public Policy Research release a report warning that bankers are returning to old practices…
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Post Of The Month – August ’09 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. Our shortlist this month is… Why Solving Other People’s Problems Is Easy by Mark McGuiness A series of Thoughts On The Agency from Paul McEnanyWhy I Do What I Do by Jon Howard 20th Century Media. The Encore… Graeme WoodSerendipity…WTF? from Tim MalbonFlip Flopping To Success by Alex BoguskyTaking Stock from…
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Birds On The Wires
"Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn't the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody…