by Tom | Aug 13, 2009 | Business
The authors think so, and I can see their argument that larger organisations provide space for individuals to leverage up their skill set and activities through direct interaction with their colleagues. However, it is not clear to me that the current structure and...
by Tom | Aug 13, 2009 | Reading
Actually robots. (Obligatory NTNOCN reference). I particularly liked the football playing clones which look slightly embarrassed.
by Tom | Aug 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Interesting chart from Jerry Fishenden suggesting that productivity has not improved in the public sector despite the vast investment in ICT (and in the public sector overall). The interesting question: how to invest for efficiency? [Update: John Suffolk, government...
by Tom | Aug 12, 2009 | Reading
Great Daily Mash on house prices. And in related news, brother-in-law reminds me of this Onion moon gag. Genius.
by Tom | Aug 12, 2009 | Business
An oldish article that looks to see whether a social entrepreneur is a defined category and says yes. I wonder whether there is much difference if you just remove the word social: would the characteristics be true of an entrepreneur in a non-social enterprise?
by Tom | Aug 12, 2009 | Reading
Lots of interesting thinking about the hyper-local community and how it might pan out. How would we do one in Hillrise, for example?Funding the model.Why send students away when they can get world-class education on line?
by Tom | Aug 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
I love the belly flop competition.
by Tom | Jul 29, 2009 | Business
Unsurprisingly, the music industry finds itself growing as it allows us to purchase music in the way we want (online, offline, concerts). If the industry thought of itself of a platform and helped people create things like mash-ups and add-ons, just think of the...
by Tom | Jul 29, 2009 | Science
Great essay by Kevin Kelly mirroring work in Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near. The insights that I hadn’t seen before were that exponential growth curves could be seen as being the summation of multiple traditional S-curves over time, and that the...
by Tom | Jul 29, 2009 | Personal
It is coming up for time to replace my O2 XDA Orbit 2 / HTC Touch Cruise, which has been a good PDA and an OK to not-so-good phone (but that might have something to do with dropping it every so often).The front running options that I am considering are (not all out in...
