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For yet another fascinating example of how the blogging medium is manifesting itself, check out PostSecret. To quote the site, PostSecret is an ongoing community project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. It's almost an...
It was only a matter of time, and they are fully within their rights. Microsoft are now steping up their efforts to make sure that your copy of Windows is legit. (click here for article) It's been slow in coming, but if you've been downloading patches, add-ons etc,...
"Death and taxes", the old saying goes, are the only things that are absolutely certain in life. Well, I'd like to suggest that living in the 21st century, there are one or two things that could be added to that list. Its just a matter of time for most people - and...
What did you want to be when you were a child? What profession was it that kept you day-dreaming out of the window in class instead of focussing on what the teacher was saying? Are you now Living the Dream? 2,000 employees have been surveyed by Creative & Cultural...
In the Star Workplace, 13 July 2005, "Generation Y" was featured, with nice insights for managers and the corporate world. Click here to read the full article. The article ties in nicely with our own research (see here), although in the way it is presented in the...
Original concept by Stephen Wildstrom from BusinessWeek, 25 July/1 August 2005 - (click here - premium content) "Popular wisdom holds that you can find anything on the Web. And if you're looking for information on products, transportation schedules, or tourist...
Digitally savvy students learn differently than their analogue-trained professors are prepared to teach them. How do we bridge the divide? By Susan S. Szenasy Posted at http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1521 on July 25, 2005 "If I showed you a 1982...
I don't know where they come from? I don't know who they are? But somewhere out there, somewhere in the dark spaces of our world, live the Hof people. I get mail from them, and I've sent enough of it on, for others to believe that I've wandered across to the other...
I read a book review this morning in Wired (click here for Wired Web site) on "Flight of the Creative Class" by Richard Florida (buy it at Amazon.com or Kalahari.net). It got a so-so review, and I haven't read the book (has anyone else?). But I did like the 3...
During my daughter's prize giving on Friday, one of the phrases that jumped out at me was “ The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how you use them�. I was reading a magazine in a client's reception not so long ago, about a man called...
If you want to know what, in my opinion, makes a book great, then read the next 3 paragraphs. If not, skip them. There are a few qualities I look for in a book before I refer to it as a great book. Firstly, a great book needs to capture me. I know this happens when I...
Over the past few months, I have been scracthing my head about this "connection economy" thing. Philosophically and intellectually, I understand it, and it makes perfect sense to me that we are transitioning to this new era. As I read some very clever economists, I am...
There has been much attention on the London Underground in the past few days. It reminded me of an experience I had standing on one of the station platforms. The London Underground is the oldest, busiest (and most expensive) Underground railway in the world. Parts of...
I have been privileged in the last 2 weeks to attend two functions that have pulled at my hearts strings. First a function at GIBS where a group of interested social entrepreneurs came together to listen to the stories of two great people. The second fuction was the...
More blasts today in London. I was on a plane while it was happening. I was reading a Newsweek article on the 4 bombers from last week. As I read I wondered about their families and how life for them would be here on out? Not only being the parents of these 4, but...
As I write this, I am sitting in a hotel room in Cape Town, watching the unfolding scene in London, where 4 more unexploded bombs have been found. Its two weeks after the devastating bombs that hit London and killed over 50 people. Its too early to say what has...
I have been meaning to write this blog since Friday, in fact it has bothered me constantly that I have not yet written it, esp when I see the volume of pieces that Graeme churns out, so I am making the assumption that he does not ascribe to the belief that we need...
A recent discussion has led me to question ... what is the "connection economy"? We all use the phrase and I'm just wondering - are we all on the same page? I found a article which said the following about the "connection economy" : it also encompasses the increased...
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