Entries Tagged as 'Ideas'
Joining the webstream (January 18th, 2011 - 2,451)
The internet is a transformational tool leading to the emergence of psychic cyborgs who have a second self. I want to explain how to connect your thoughts to the planetary consciousness. Twitter is about short bursts of inconsequential information, yet it is vital information as you learn to learn. You access this web through mobile devices like [...]
We are collectively filtering the connected web (September 15th, 2010 - 1,109)
The question of what have people in the world done that is interesting to me right now is beginning to be answered, as more and more apps are learning how to aggregate and filter the torrential information streams that are flourishing across the web. Once the mass connectedness is in place we start to get overloaded and overwhelmed [...]
Dave Pollard’s Dangerous Ideas (July 28th, 2010 - 4,686)
When Dave Pollard saw the Edge Foundation‘s bland, disconnected answers to the question “What is your dangerous idea?” he decided that he should put together his own list of ideas. “There are ideas that threaten deeply-entrenched ideas and strongly-held, widely-held beliefs. Because those who they threaten will do almost anything to prevent them becoming widely accepted. And [...]
Winter hibernation with Pareto (June 10th, 2010 - 1,949)
Gilligan’s Fish and Chips in Barwon Heads know that they do 85% of their sales over summer, so they have decided make the most of it by closing for 4 months of quiet winter hibernation! Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto observed in 1906 that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population, [...]
Networking Awesomely with people everywhere (May 14th, 2010 - 2,011)
The way I think about networking has evolved with the realisation that we have got people everywhere now. We are more connected than ever before and the new messaging networks we use mean that we are now linked with everything in the world through only a few degrees. These connections have always been there, but [...]
