Category: culture
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The Nobel Internet
I'm in two minds about this. The Italian edition of Wired has launched a campaign to get the next Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the internet. The Editor says that the internet is the first "weapon of mass construction, which we can deploy to destroy hate and to propagate peace and democracy", and his cause…
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Augmented Hype. Augmented Reality.
I suspect that, for some at least, Augmented Reality may already be riding the peak of inflated expectations on the Hype Cycle and about to ski down the black run of cynicism towards the trough of disillusionment. But as usual, it is the examples that look genuinely fun or useful that offer a glimpse of…
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On Listening
I love this. I love it not only because it's a great idea, well executed, but because it's important. On Christmas Day, right around the time of the Queen's speech, teenage Britain delivered its own message to the nation. It was the culmination of The Teens Speech project from Barnardo's, that has seen teenagers up…
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2010 And Beyond
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." John Cage I'm not really a fan of prediction lists. This time of year there tends to be a surfeit of them. But I think Seth Godin has it about right when he says that the two most important…
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Britain’s Got Talent
“In the knowledge economy all staff are volunteers, but our managers are trained to manage conscripts” Peter Drucker I've been thinking about this quote ever since I read it over at Johnnie's place. I did a webinar the other day about social technologies, and there were a number of HR professionals on the call. The…
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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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Cracks
"There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen I was planning on posting about something else this morning and then I go and get an e-mail from Mario Cacciottolo telling me that it's the second birthday of his project 'Someone Once Told Me'. Driven by Mario's personal passion (he has…
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Flight Patterns
Love this. A short film by Charlie McCarthy based on 156 long exposure photographs of bugs under a streetlight. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5676816&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo. Great catch by the Creative Review blog.
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Resonant Frequencies And Failurephobia
Image courtesy I once had a boss who said "failure is not an option". In this rather sobering post, Jeff Jarvis quotes Craig Newmark who, upon returning from a recent trip to the UK has commented on an apparent culture of failurephobia amongst UK business. In Silicon Valley, says Newmark, failure is just a phase…