Month: May 2012
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Google Firestarters 5: Cory Doctorow – The Event
Well. I can honestly say that it's taken me a good few days to digest Cory Doctorow's amazing talk at our fifth Firestarters event last Wednesday. And I'm still ruminating on it. Cory's talk, billed as 'The Coming War On General Computation' concerned what he sees as the gross inadequacies inherent in our regulatory and…
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Post Of The Month – April 2012 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations (you'll note one of them is a PDF that was originally published for the Rotman School Of Management). So this months vote is between: Myself, Quantified by Dan Hon Easter Island, Choice, And Making Things People Want by John Willshire Why The Interest Graph Is The Future Of Social Commerce by Patricia McDonald "Meaningful"…
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Post Of The Month – April 2012 – Nominations
It being the beginning of the month means it's time to open up nominations for Post Of The Month. So please nominate your favourite posts that were posted in the month of April in the comments below. As always I've listed a few of my own favourites as a starter – please add to these and once I…
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Google #SearchFirestarters – Attribution
It's all go with Firestarters right now. Tomorrow we have Cory Doctorow in the house, and last Thursday saw our inaugral spin-off event for the search marketing community. Around 200 of the great and the good of the search industry came together to debate the thorny subject of attribution – the use of data and…