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Counterculture, Cyberculture and Innovation: the Strange Case of Stewart Brand
A couple of years ago, at the end of this post on the crossover between Web 2.0 and anarchism, I wrote that I'd started reading Fred Turner's From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the...
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University of Death by Sean McManus: A Review
There's a pivotal scene in University of Death where the muso-technology geek at the heart of the story struggles to persuade the venal record industry boss to buy-in to a groundbreaking new scheme...
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Building Cross-platform Fan Communities: the SwarmTribes Pilot
"My biggest asset is not cash — it's a large, growing, devout fanbase," Imogen Heap was quoted as saying recently. She has nigh-on 1.5 million followers of her Twitter feed at the time of writing, and...
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Traditional Media Is Haemorrhaging Its Lead as Music Discovery Platform
I'm emerging briefly from hibernation again, as I'm astonished at how this Myxer report's findings on music discovery are being reported. The research is based on a US sample of people who download...
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Elaborating on Agile Learning
I resist requests to pin down Agile Learning with a tight definition. I see it as a family of approaches, and when you've seen a few of these approaches perhaps you start to detect the family...
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Ollie Nørsterud Gardener on Creating Originals through Enterprise Learning
Can social networks be environments for real learning? What would happen if you tried to mash up social networking and knowledge management with a human-centred approach to how people learn and develop...
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Open, Trusting, Generous: Review of Monkeys With Typewriters, a Book on...
As I made my way through the first third of Monkeys with Typewriters, I was vaguely aware of a tut-tutting from my inner voice, an occasional rolling of my inner eye. "Sheesh, this social media stuff...
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The Whys and Wherefores of Creativity and Sharing: Review of Making Is...
One of the beauties of David Gauntlett'sMaking is Connecting is the way it develops a fundamentally simple idea with successive layers of richness and power. The cover captures the kernel of the book:...
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On Ecosystems, Adam Curtis and Positions of Power
I have a chronic habit of reaching more for biological metaphors to help describe how we inhabit a world of abundant technology and media. Two decades ago, when I was working on large IT systems in the...
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What's Holding Open Access Publishing Back?
As a small business working in knowledge-intensive, research-driven areas, I've got first-hand experience of the frustrations caused by mainstream research publishing: you find a research paper that...
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