Design | Sprint
Design sprints are created for technical systems, not human ones. We need better research and attention to human-centred principles if we are to achieve the aims of rapid innovation in a responsible manner.
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Transformation and Innovation
Innovation can involve small adjustments or great transformations. Social media provides a case study for understanding why ongoing monitoring and
Read moreGenetic engineering for your brand
DNA doesn’t predetermine our future as biological beings, but it does powerfully influence it. Some have applied the concept of ‘DNA’
Read moreMy troubled relationship with social media
Do you care about donuts? I did, once. I’m not so sure anymore. I used to love donuts, was passionate
Read moreFrogs, Pots, Blogs and Social Media
Our information landscape has been compared with our diets providing an ample opportunity to compare what we ‘consume’ with how
Read moreSocial innovation, social inclusion
Social innovation is about bringing new ideas, products and services out into society with others for social benefit and improving
Read moreThe New Zombie
Information is everywhere (and if you live in cities, people might be everywhere, too) and yet the volume of information we see is overwhelmed by what we do not see. Zombies are among us like information and because of that information might be less attuned to what is going on around them. This has enormous consequences and most of it is not good.
Read moreOne leg, two leg, three leg, more?
In Orwell’s classic Animal Farm the characters often oscillate between their evaluative assessments on the merits of two or four
Read moreSocial Media and the Changing Role of Journalists Covering It
Om Malik from Giga OM writes today about the changing role of media and how the new media is transforming
Read moreThe Business Model of Social Media: Who Owns the Presses?
When Karl Marx asked: Who owns the presses? he was referring to the ability of wealthy private individuals to control the means of knowledge production and dissemination and thus, influence society as capital owners, not as citizens. The unequal voice of the bourgeoisie over the proletariat was what gave them undue social power. But what happens when the owners and generators of wealth (knowledge, information) shift and the result is a community that relies on the medium of production without the control of it?
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