An online notebook
I had an enjoyable couple of hours yesterday evening at the LSE, attending Clay Shirky‘s lecture on cognitive surplus, which was launching his book of the same name. It was an enjoyable hour, and a real pleasure to hear stories and arguments for the use of social technology for social good. I must admit, however, … Keep reading
Quite a few events coming up in the next couple of weeks that I should probably let you know about. Next week I’m attending a few things: on Monday, the Clay Shirky lecture on Cognitive Surplus at the LSE, followed by the Learning Pool steering group meeting on Tuesday. I’ll be talking to the group … Keep reading
Quora is an interesting looking service, providing a fairly straightforward question and answer platform. It’s been in closed beta for a while, but now has been unleashed onto the public at large. It’s all about capturing the activity we all do on sites like Twitter: asking questions, giving answers, and researching topics online. Quora adds … Keep reading
John Naughton is consistently one of the – if not the – best writers we have about technology. His A Brief History Of The Future is a simply fantastic introduction to the internet: why and how it came about, from Vannevar Bush‘s vision of the Memex through Douglas Englebart‘s ‘Mother of all demos‘ to Arpanet … Keep reading
This is a great video from John Seely Brown, who is a really interesting guy. His website blurb states that I’m a visiting scholar at USC and the independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. In a previous life, I was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center … Keep reading