Back when I worked for Thomson Reuters, they had an internal blogging network. For a behemoth of a company it was a great idea, but sadly under used. (There’s nothing more forlorn than a ghost website that hasn’t been updated for months – on the surface it looks new and vital, but really it’s dead… [Read more…]
April 23, 2012
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Beverly Sills Good things come out of difficulty. It takes at least 8 years to become fluent in a foreign language and 7 years to become an architect After all that time you’ve earnt it. Learning these skills takes time and the only way to do it… [Read more…]
March 29, 2012
With computers at our disposal we’ve given some of our weirdest habits a new home. Fetishes and kinky pleasure aside, there is nothing stranger or more nonsensical than collecting. A brief history of collecting Just think of the monkeys. Every time evolution and human behaviour get a mention i go back to that scene in… [Read more…]
December 22, 2011
Living in the age of the “long tail“, blockbuster success is even harder to come by. Which is exactly what makes this article in the Guardian so curious. Following the UK’s riots in August, the newspaper looked at recent survey results from British teenagers. Over 80% of kids wanted to be famous, but only 50%… [Read more…]
December 19, 2011
Sweden, home of moderately priced furniture and famed for its 70s pop group. And now also for the country’s digital industry. Hyper Island was set up in 1995 as a school for digital and interactive media. Using the “experience learning” teaching method, the school offers full and part time courses on everything digital. Given how… [Read more…]
December 8, 2011
The advantage of being lost in a crowd is anonymity. My last post explored the level of privacy that we’ve lost over the past 20 years, and how (for good or bad) we can no longer hide within a crowd. Companies and governments are recording more information about us, and a lot of us aren’t… [Read more…]
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