This week is definitely the week to get back to blogging. The last week has been a flurry of activity looking at what the future organisation might (and should) be like. Wednesday saw the restart of the Social Business Sessions at Yammer’s UK HQ, and Saturday saw the first ResponsiveOrg unconference, with around 40 sessions on how businesses can respond to the… Read more →
Terrifying Consumers
I am sure you have seen the Carrie promotional video prank. If you haven’t here you go: terrify yourself. There has been a lot of debate about whether the people in the shop were actors or just bystanders (and that debate also added to the spread of the video). Marketeers are in a continually escalating battle to get our clicks and… Read more →
Does More Data Mean Better Decisions
So this post is partly in response to a comment from Roland Harwood asking about 23andMe, but mostly me thinking out loud about data and risks. While this post is in response to the data generated by 23andMe, it is applicable to almost any isolated set of data. 23andMe, if you haven’t heard of it, is a DNA analysis service,… Read more →
Internet of Things
A few very cool open sourced hardware projects in the Internet of Things space this week. The Chrome Web Lab exhibition at the London Science Museum concluded yesterday, but Google have released the plans for a couple of the projects: the Universal Orchestra and Sketchbots. The first, Web Lab Orchestra, allows multiple users to control hardware that plays physical instruments, collaboratively and in real time, using a… Read more →
From around the web – Benjamin’s favourites july 12 2013
This is a bit of old-style blogging – an actual web log! – of things I found on the web (mostly via twitter) editted with Storify (which, sadly, made a right pigs ear of this). My favourite ‘gadget’ of the week (designed in Reading, no less!) The Floating Mug Co. | Refresh your tabletop The Floating Mug Co | A… Read more →
Ants and Dandelions – Co-dependance and missing links
I’m not really big on gardening. I’m very happy to look at a pretty garden, but not so happy to spend hours tending to one! That said, each time I do venture out, I learn something: Today it was something about ants and dandelions. Herbicides are off limits in our garden – appart from their impact, keeping chickens means they really aren’t… Read more →