Category: insight
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Consumers Are People
I'm banning the word 'consumer' from this blog. Not that it crops up that often here – I've been making a conscious effort to avoid using it ever since Adam launched his 'Stop Calling Me a Consumer' Facebook group (and even wrote a piece of Firefox script that automatically replaced the word 'consumer' with 'people')…
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The Economics Of Ideals
I've long been a fan of Umair Haque's writing. He's never been afraid to ask the big questions, challenge the big assumptions, propose the radical. This 6 minute interview conducted by Dennis Howlett sums up Umair's approach to the 'economics of ideals': "What ideals force us to do is to confront the issue of outcomes.…
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Always Be Bad At Something You Are Passionate About
Gosh. Two posts about twitter (sort of) in two days. But then before yesterday I'd never posted about it, so I'm hoping I'm due a little slack here. I don't know why I find it so intriguing that the conceptual roots of twitter were in vehicle despatch. But perhaps it's something to do with my…
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Privacy And Accountability
"When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else."David Brin, sci-fi author.
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Financial Flocking (2)
It is perhaps unsurprising that in the current financial malaise few people seem really able to make proper sense of what is really going on. Perhaps this is because many of us are still looking at the world in the wrong way. Jeff Jarvis postulates that we are not only witnessing the result of an…
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Flow
When I walk through Waterloo station every morning there are hundreds of people trying to do the same thing as me – get from one side of the station to the other in as direct a way as possible. There are so many people, trying to get to so many different places at once, it…
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Obama Speech On Wordle
This is Barack Obama’s address to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver on Wordle. Interesting the perspective this gives it – notably the prominence of words like "work", "time", "keep" and of-course the biggest word of all…"promise".