Year: 2012
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Post Of The Month – January 2012 – Nominations
It's time again to open up nominations for Post Of The Month for the month of January. So do please nominate your favourite posts that were posted in that month, in the comments below. As usual, I've listed a few of my own favourites as a starter, and I've had one nomination already (thanks Rick) which…
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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 creative, collaboration gigs that "bring together a large diverse group of talented people to…
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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 planners today, and I'm delighted to say that our first event of 2012…
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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 magic (hence the borrowed title to this post) of media. The maths bit…
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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 that rate of decline in less than two decades nobody will be visiting libaries. This upsets…
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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 education (including Google, Microsoft, Rewired State, Nesta, BETT, the IPA and UKIE) who have…
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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 ("Competitive advantage, for example, is often used to mean 'anything we think we're…
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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 believe SOPA and PIPA are the right way to end piracy. So for…
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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 really. Rushing about every day, I think it's easy to only look at…
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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 from the 200 million CAPTCHAs that are solved by humans around the world every…