Archive for November, 2008
We Are Amplified
Guitars, historically, weren’t a loud instrument. To become the loud things we know today they had to be plugged in to amplification. Cunning bits of electronic wizardry that took a tiny signal and made it much much larger. An amplified guitar is definitely heard!
These days we (at least those of us reading this) are plugged in. We [...]
Going Hyper-Local – Location Based Internet
Over the last year I’ve been playing with a number of location based services. I should explain my fascination, since it is even stranger than you think. Way back when I first encountered communications networks I was gripped by the way they enabled me to reach across geographies. Suddenly I could speak with people all [...]
Why Blog?
This post has been lurking in my drafts folder for a while, but watching a video on openforum provided me with the stimulus to post it.
Why Blog?
The reasons for a personal and for a business blog are not all the dissimilar. A long ago I stated my reasons for blogging, and those haven’t really changed:
Blogging [...]
Get Innovating. Start Asking Stupid Questions.
A confluence of thoughts on innovation and questions running around my head, so it must be time for a blog post. Innovation is further up the hype-o-meter than social media in UK business. Everyone wants to be innovative, and quite rightly so. There are innovation conferences, innovation consultancies and innovation workshops springing up all over the place, of varying quality. Innovation is a core survival skill, isn’t it?
Caught by CauseWired
Hang on to the furniture, this post is going to be a bit of a ride. I’m holding Tom Watson and his CauseWired book responsible. I normally read a book very quickly, I’m almost legendary for my tree digesting abilities. I read. I mark with scraps of paper. I digest, note and move on.
