Month: January 2012
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Good For Nothing: Occupy Blue Monday
Occupy Blue Monday Good for Nothing Film from Good for Nothing on Vimeo. The smart folk at The Pipeline Project (Dan, Tom, Tom and Anouk) have been running Good for Nothing weekenders now for just over a year. They describe them as […]
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Google Firestarters 4: Entrepreneurship
"Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled."Howard Stevenson, Harvard Business School You'll know by now that I curate a series of events for Google designed to facilitate different thinking and debate around some of the more interesting issues facing […]
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Media = Maths + Magic
Before Christmas, in an exceptionally insightful post on Ad Age, Adam Cahill suggested that it was time to change the orientation of media agencies and departments to be more reflective of what people do and toward what he called the math and the […]
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Reinventing Libraries
According to the 2010/11 Taking Part survey published by the Dept of Culture, Media & Sport the proportion of adults in the UK who visited a public library in the past year fell from 48.2% in 2005/6 to just 39.4% in 2009/10. At […]
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Shut Down Or Restart?
Regular readers will know my views about the need to completely reinvent the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) curriculum in schools. Having written a few pieces on the subject I was invited along last week to an interesting meeting of representatives from industry and […]
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What Is Competitive Advantage?
Terminology like competitive advantage, differentiation and value creation tend to get overused in businesses. This HBR piece on the work of Michael Porter from Joan Margretta who worked with him for almost 20 years succinctly captures how often such terms are misappropriated […]
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Stop SOPA And PIPA
It's a day of many voices of protest across the web (even on the Google homepage), but I didn't want to post about anything else today. I don't believe that censoring the web is the right thing to do and I don't […]
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#lookupmore
I'm loving Instagram's weekend hashtag project. It's a simple but rather lovely curation of Instagrams around weekly themes that have included stairs, reflections, corners and shadows. Ages ago, I started hashtagging a few pictures that I took with #lookupmore. It's a simple thing […]
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Massive-Scale Online Collaboration
I caught up with the super-smart Richard Sedley yesterday and he pointed me at this astounding TEDx talk by Luis Von Ahn, who was one of the people that invented the CAPTCHA. Luis talks about reCAPTCHA, the project to create human gain […]