February 2010
6 posts
Dr Nicholas Christakis @ The RSA - The Power of...
Last night I attended this talk at the RSA, with some colleagues from Flamingo. To listen to the talk you can get the audio here…
http://bit.ly/bBOIEI
There are plenty of notes/annotations/blogs online, a quick twitter search of #rsaconnected will give you most.
Anyway my little point here is relating it back to my little fanboy love of Bruno Latour’s ANT. There are a lot of...
“No matter how far wrong you’ve gone,
You can always turn around”
– Gil Scott Heron - I’m new here
Social networks require social movement - can...
Google’s attempts to garner a foothold in the social web have been pretty mixed. First Wave dumbfounded, then within a week they have launched Buzz and announced a buy out of social search site Aardvark. But these have been met with skepticism about why we want or need these and even more troubling do we want google to facilitating this? To their credit they are not afraid to fail and committed to...
“Standing in the ruins
of a black man’s life,
Or flying through the...”
– Gil Scott Heron - Your soul and mine
A letter to the Guardian -Charge me more for my...
Dear Guardian News & Media,
Reading Sir Martin Sorrell’s prediction that government may have to subsidise the big editorial news institutions in this country, citing the heavy losses of the Guardian Media Group, made for depressing reading. Firstly, that such great content could not turn a profit in todays media market, and secondly an editorial future underpinned by government and...
