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Manufacturing Dissent - Media Activism
Until very recently the trade-off between richness and reach with media and communications tools on the internet has seen mixed results but we are very close to some exciting breakthroughs. This means news is old when it gets through the media process as savvy consumers have already engaged to some extent in a myriad of ways (mostly online) and this alters the secondary ripples and impacts as well. Read more »
Fast thinking needs slow tweeting
One of the developing trends I have been noticing is the big rise in uber-connected people leveraging their social and business networks for a common cause. I support this but wonder if some of the media ripples from the all of this activity are being somewhat discounted? Read more »
Secret Sauce for Open Tables
Very few of the ideas at the Entrepreneurial Summit seemed that interesting at all to me. Perhaps its the different tech focused world that I live in but I did think asking the "usual suspects" for surprises was a tough thing to do. Open Table is a start-up that raised US$70m earlier this week by fulfilling the simple task of making restaurant bookings easy to do. I couldn't help thinking that NZ could do plenty of projects like this. Read more »
New Zealander Sean Gourley, TED Fellow
This week TED announced the inaugural TED Fellows programme and Sean Gourley, described as ‘physicist/military theorist, Rhodes Scholar, New Zealand’ is one of 40 world-changers picked. Read more »
Creative generalists rock the tesseract!
So the new answer to the perennial “What do you do?” question is that I’m a polychronic creative generalist and there are lots of you out there as well. Read more »
Persistence needed more than genius
At the recent New Yorker conference, called “2012: Stories from the near Future” was a piece by Malcolm Gladwell on two ideas of Genius. What is fascinating to me about the speech, is how Gladwell tells the story with his historian's ear for detail and uses it as a learning observation on problem solving styles. Gladwell has a wonderful story telling style, as you will know if you've checked his books (Tipping Point, Blink) or his video presentation on Spaghetti Sauce at TED Read more »
Creative Visualisation of numbers
A key challenge for policy makers is how to tell a compelling story with numbers. It is not easy to visualise the impact of change in a meaningful way—but help is now at hand. Ironically it doesn't come from the business intelligence (oxymoron alert) community—it is more the result of being able to add graphical tools and creative vision to the core data. The person driving this vision is Dr Hans Rosling a global health professor. Google like the approach so much that they have now invested in the gapminder software developed by Rosling Read more »
Spaghetti sauce & other chunky content
If anyone mentions/raves about a 20-minute video featuring spaghetti sauce by Malcolm Gladwell (remember Tipping Point & Blink) don’t be surprised. The video is found on Ted Talks, which is a bit like a YouTube channel for adults. TED (Technology Entertainment Design) has been around since 1984 and was started by Richard Saul Wurman but seems to have really taken off under the direction of Chris Anderson. TED talkers have 18 minutes to engage, persuade, cajole, elucidate and communicate their passion to 1,000 guests who have typically paid $US4,000 each to be there. Now that 100 of the videos from those talks have been released to the public we can all share in this amazing content Read more »
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Audi designer Wolfgang Egger brings the A5 Sportback to life right in front of our eyes. It’s all about three lines, apparently, but those three lines have been obsessed over. Enjoy the autospeak: the rear comes complete with both accent and elbow.
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Unfortunately it is not just red tape - it is also the laid back kiwi attitude, compounded by educators who think achieving national standards is a bad thing.
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"You got caught up in events at EMI.." and yet shes STILL with EMI - their local branch is distributing her new album. Wonder why?
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Brilliant, insightful article, VH.
This situation has principally arisen because - simplistically - the world no longer wants what we are intrinsically advantaged in supplying.
And yeah, it doesn't look like our co …