Social Media Staycation
18 days abroad and a bad set of Internet connections gave me a rare opportunity to take a break from
Read moreMonth: July 2011
Health for Design
The Design4Health conference is on this week bringing together designers from different fields together with health policy, practice and research
Read moreInnovation, Networks & Design
The terms innovation, networks and design are becoming “hot”, although nothing compares to what could come from bringing these three
Read moreSocial Networks: Beyond the Numbers
Powerful social network research is as much about having a good statistician as it is an anthropologist and together, they need to have the story that comes from it, woven together by the users.
Read moreSocial Media and the Limits to Growth
Social media provides a virtual firehose of content that surpasses anything we’ve had access to before. But is this sea
Read moreInnovation and Academic Science
Universities haven’t survived hundreds of years by being risky, they have because they were safe (in spite of the occasional radical shift here and there). With complex social problems and the challenges posed by things like cancer, something risky is needed. Academics just aren’t positioned to embrace this risk unless the system changes — with them helping drive that change — to support innovation and not just talk about it.
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