Ten things I learned from the New MR Virtual Festival

My previous post included all of the notes I took while listening into the New MR Virtual Festival. This post contains the key things I took away from the day, and have subsequently been mulling over in the 2 months (!) since. NB: All slides shown below are taken entirely without permission. If a creator [...]

New MR Virtual Festival notes

I’m breaking my longest-to-date blogging absence (work-life parity should soon be restored) with two versions of the same post. This is the first. They are related to the New MR global online conference that ran on 9th December 2010, featuring speakers and moderators across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. The event was created and organised [...]

Recommended Reading – 25th July 2010

The second and final group of links from the past month I recommend you click on is below: Northern Planner has ten great pieces of advice on how to plan if you live outside of London. The points are good advice in general, and transferable to many other things Adam Rifkin uses a metaphor of [...]

Recommending Reading – 4th April 2010

If you have a spare 15 minutes this weekend, you could do worse than read the following: Jonah Lehrer looks at Costco through his Neuroscience prism. I’m not quite sure it adequately explains why people choose to pay a subscription to enter the store, but it is still interesting reading. Two sides of a similar [...]

Recommended reading – March 19th 2010

As well as reading material, I also recommend viewing this 5 minute video on a near future social media storm, which is extremely well done: Mob (a near-future science fiction story) by Tom Scott from hurryonhome on Vimeo. In addition, I would recommend reading: Neil Perkin has a fantastic overview of the case for agile [...]

How can research inspire?

The question in the title is predicated on the assumption that research can inspire. While the haters may disagree, I truly believe it can. Understanding the different ways in which it can do so is trickier. In a slight contradiction to my previous post on “insight”, I’m using the term “research in its most catch-all [...]

Links – 8th March 2009

My recommendations for the past week include: Paul Graham on why he thinks social media has contributed to the death of TV. He makes some good points on the social nature of TV, but I disagree that synchronicity will fade away. TV will continue to prompt watercooler chat around shared experiences. If the watercooler is [...]

Links – 22nd February 2009

Some of the things I’ve read over the past week and would recommend: There have been some interesting events occurring in London over the past week: John Griffiths went to the NESTA workshop, and Anjali Ramachandran and Eaon Pritchard both went to see Seth Godin speak A thought-provoking article in the Atlantic on the future [...]