Category: trends
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Joining The Bucket Brigade
So Bud Caddell, Strategy Director at Victors & Spoils, is writing a book. And as you may already know, is crowd-sourcing the funding through Kickstarter to enable him the time to write it. And I've decided to invest and support it (not my first investment on Kickstarter) and have joined his Editorial Board. Seems…
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Ideas Having Sex
"The greatest technology that humans ever created is humanity itself" Kevin Kelly Funny. The day I blog about serendipity, creativity, connection and the combination of ideas (and 'flow' within organisations), I serendipitously see the first talk posted from this week's TEDGlobal 2010 which is all about creativity, connection, and the combination of ideas. Ever since…
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Cooking Dinner With The iPad
Early iPad content apps seem to have suffered from a McLuhan-esque propensity to consider a new technology through the lens of the old, and what Jakob Nielsen called a 'crushing print metaphor'. There's perhaps an inevitability to the inconsistency in usability that Nielsen described, but the iPad is a re-imagined interface, and so requires re-imagined…
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Weekly Fish Food. Only Tastier.
If you're a regular reader you'll know that I value good curation. So I'm setting up a weekly e-mail based update that pulls together some of the best things that I've come across in the week, as well bits and pieces of news about what I'm up to. I already have an RSS feed…
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The Future Of News – Peak Journalism
"Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism." Clay Shirky According to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Entertainment and Media Outlook (2010 to 2014) another milestone is about to be passed with the internet poised to overtake newspapers as the second-largest U.S. advertising medium by revenue behind television. Contrast that with some bleak but revealing figures from…
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Creative Disruption
I noticed the other day that since starting my own business I've met (or come into contact with) many more entrepreneurs, freelancers, and sole traders than I think I would had I still been in corporate life. Part of that is no doubt about wanting to connect with other people who are out there, making…
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Gesture-Based Computing
What makes something interesting? It's an intriguing question. According to research by Paul Silvia (Univ of North Carolina Dept of Psychology) it's a cluster of variables around novelty-complexity, combined with a cluster of comprehension variables. In simple language, in order to be interesting, something has to be both new and understandable. I think one of…