Tweet Thanks to David Osimo‘s pioneering energy and imagination (and the enabling support of FutureGov and Headshift), I was privileged to have the opportunity to outline some of the thinking behind Debategraph at the European Commission’s Public Services 2.0 workshop in Brussels last month.
Tweet As announced on the Global Sensemaking blog, and building on Tim Bonnemann’s excellent Wordle and Mark Szpakowski’s suggestion, I produced a draft map of Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin yesterday, which you can view and explore here. The snapshot below displays the top layer of the map, and you are welcome to log-in and …
Tweet Sunny summer’s morning in Somerset, enjoying the juxtaposition of: Popular Science’s revelation of the first wiring diagrams of the cerebral cortex: Matthew Hurst’s brilliant blogosphere activation simulation / visualization from PdF2008: . And Jeff Stibel’s Harvard Business blog: The Internet is a Brain
Tweet Thanks to Richard Jolly, here’s the live streaming feed from the wonderful 2gether08 conference. The full conference schedule is available here. UPDATE: With the conference over for this year, here are a couple of video interviews recorded at the event by (the thankfully ubiquitous) David Wilcox: (1) UK Minister for Transformational Government, and still …
Tweet Rachel Carson or Monty Python? Dead or merely resting?* While the blogosphere ponders the implications of Twitter’s latest Silent Spring, it has been nervous week for twitchers everywhere. While “Twitter’s down” is starting to develop the inane and comic familiarity of a catchphrase, “Amazon’s down” sounds like a global cataclysm. Still, there’s always the …
Tweet A double thank you to Dan Pink (and Mike Sporer) today, for introducing me to Tom Chapin’s guitar-based critique of trends in modern education policy: Obviously Tom’s closing observations about the importance of teaching of students how to think and engage in rational discourse strike a chord here. And our belief in the potential …
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Tweet A week in which: Dan Pink, Al Gore’s former chief speechwriter, told Tim Ferriss… “Ultimately speeches are about actions. The only reason to give a speech is to change the world. That’s a high bar. But that’s what we should aspire to when audiences give us this privilege.” …TED uploaded a video of Dan’s …
Tweet Thanks to Mathew Ingram and David Weinberger, I have just marvelled at these two videos in quick succession, and found myself feeling singuarly unsettled: Big Dog walking: Lego robot solves Rubik’s cube: UPDATE: One month on, and thanks to Marc Andreessen, the feeling isn’t going away: Robot reassembles itself after being kicked apart: