An online notebook
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 wrote up quite a bit of what was said at the Local by Social event yesterday, but didn’t add much in the way of comment or analysis. This post makes up for that. I’ll try and sum up what…
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. What Does Government Transformation Mean, Exactly? – "Rather than fantasizing about the myth of transformation, governments have to accept that future is no longer predictable and focus on what changes…
Here’s Hugh Flouch! Hyperlocal communities Harringay Online – 2,900 members, 4-500 visits a day, 2-300 visitors a day Has discussion forum, event promotion, information about public services, photo gallery and local history archive ‘a bible of local information and gossip’…
Paul Miller now up, from the School of Everything. SoE is all about getting more people to learn – the things they want to learn about Since Sept 2008 Private enterprise backed by investment SoE can help reduce costs, do…
Patient Opinion is a great site for people to leave feedback about their experiences with health services. Really micro level issues can be discussed and action taken Based on the telling of stories by service users Great example of dodgy…