…Dopplr will really make me happy when it can manage all of it for me.
FYI…the Canadian tour has changed a bit. This weekend, we’ll be in Vangroovy working away with our awesome pals at Ma.gnolia on some very cool projects. Later this month, it’s FOO, then off to the Montreal Jazz Festival, then [...]
Further to Sir Ken Robinson’s fabulous TED Talk on education, and further to my presentation on Un-managing and the research I included in it by Malone & Lepper regarding intrinsic motivation, creating risk-positive-failure-forward environments are crucial to innovation.
I had a discussion regarding this a while back with Joshua Schachter (I think it was at ETech, [...]
In his amazing TED Talk, entitled, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”, Sir Ken Robinson tells the story of going to see his son in the play A Nativity Scene. When the three wisemen appear (three costumed young boys), they deliver their lines with only the interpretation that youngsters can deliver. There are no ‘rights’ and no [...]
For those of you who don’t follow my SlideShare account, this was the Keynote presentation I gave at the recent GOVIS conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Because the video doesn’t currently embed:
1. The Day of the Longtail By Michael Markman, Peter Hirshberg, Bob Kalsey; Produced for The Computer History Museum
2. What the Heck is BarCamp? [...]
[asynchronous peek-a-boo with Dad by TaranRampersad]
Yesterday’s Facebook announcement was a way exciting occasion, marking, I believe, a new era. For those of you who didn’t catch the news, Facebook has opened up itself as a platform so that anyone can take advantage of (what Mark Zuckerberg called) the “social graph”, the network of real connections [...]
Brands don’t get diluted because they are overused in popular terminology. Brands get diluted because they’ve ceased to be relevant.
(e.g. ‘xeroxing’ or ‘googling’ something)
Marilyn Waring’s first gesture towards me proved the point she would make earlier.
Knowing virtually nothing about me other than I dropped her an email explaining that her book, Counting for Nothing (originally titled “If Women Counted”), changed the way I looked at the world and that I had dedicated my life to shifting value systems [...]
As a child, I loved the colourful rhymes of Dr. Seuss. His characters were so fantastical and silly, with names that made you giggle whilst you learnt. Some of my favourite stories were The Sneetches and The Lorax. The Sneetches was a wonderful parable of the celebration of diversity (actually used in Bosnia to teach [...]
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