Month: May 2010
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From Linear to Organic
"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution" Clay Shirky I saw Sir Ken Robinson speak last year in London. It was without exception the best talk I've ever been to. Witty, erudite, fun, insightful and hugely compelling. A version of it has just been posted as a TED talk…
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The Empathic Civilization
A few weeks ago I saw economist and author Jeremy Rifkin speak on his new book The Empathic Civilization at the RSA. It was a sweeping, provocative but affecting discourse on the nature of empathy. Rifkin framed his argument within the context of two spectacular failures: the shut-off of the global economic engine that…
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Giving Away Footballs
I was going to write about something else today, but then I get an e-mail from Paul who left his job several years ago to found my favourite charity – The Great Football Giveaway . They're not a big corporate NGO, but a small group of people who simply want to make a difference, and…
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The Marshmallow Challenge
Johnny posted a fascinating TED talk by Tom Wujec that touches on some themes that I've talked about before, as well as some valuable lessons on collaboration. Tom has run more than 70 design workshops around the world with a variety of audiences from Fortune 50 CTO's, to business school graduates, to kindergarten children, and…
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A Story About The Semantic Web
This is a fascinating 15 minute documentary on the semantic web, notable for its stellar interviewees including Tim Berners-Lee, Clay Shirky, Chris Dixon, David Weinberger, and Nova Spivack. Despite the massive potential behind the huge surfeit of data on the web, we still have to work hard to properly integrate and interpret it. The promise…
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Convergence
I'm giving a keynote at a YouTube event this week and as part of the prep for it I've been thinking about interfaces, prompted in part by John's excellent reviews of the iPad as TV, only more so. The launch of the iPad has already been pretty successful. Carl Howe asserted that, at less than…
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Post Of The Month – Aril 2010 – The Winner
Close race this month between Faris's excellent 'Digital Decade' and Bud Caddell's post on 'Getting Serious About Changing Behaviours' but in the end it was Faris that pipped it (just). Well done Faris. You get the props of your blogging peers and are entered into the ThinkTank Hall Of Fame. Don't forget to bookmark…
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Post Of The Month – April 2010 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations everyone. Another strong shortlist this month, and our vote is between: A Decade Of Digital from Faris Yakob for The Marketing Society 8 Sins Of Nu Marketing Folks from Asi Sharabi Thinking About Innovation from Noah Brier If Data Is The New Oil, We Need A Bigger Drill by Simon Kendrick…