corporate culture
What actually is Reddit?, asks Samantha Allen, writing for The Daily Beast: Reddit is not so much the generic front page of the Internet as it is its spacious, tricked-out man cave: a lot of people can fit inside, but only some people feel comfortable hanging out there. And she
culture
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/12/matthias-lufkens.jpg] Liveblogged notes from Matthias Lüfkens’ talk at LeWeb 2014 There are now hundreds of accounts of political leaders and foreign ministers on Twitter. Very few world leaders actually do the tweeting themselves. Those that do are normally
culture
Warning: Liveblogging. Prone to error, inaccuracy and terrible, terrible crimes against grammar. This post will be improved over the next 24 hours [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/11/mark-stevenson.jpg] Mark Stevenson [http://www.twitter.com/optimistontour] is a cultural change consultant. Douglas Adams said
culture
Seriously abbreviated version of the #gamergate mess: A bunch of predominantly male gamers are using “concerns about the ethics of games journalism” as a shield for a series of deeply misogynistic attacks [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/so-gamergate-just-women-seem-4508850] on prominent women developers [http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/brianna-wu-gamergate]
culture
Is selfie culture rendering moments lesser than your role in them, and the record of them? Even if it is – is it a problem? And is it even new? I have a relative that doesn’t see the point of most photos that don’t have a family member in
culture
Big surprise of last week: Taylor Swift had some really interesting thoughts about the intersection of tech and commercial art [http://online.wsj.com/articles/for-taylor-swift-the-future-of-music-is-a-love-story-1404763219] in a piece for the WSJ: > There are a few things I have witnessed becoming obsolete in the past few years, the first
business models
You know that quote you always hear? > Information Wants To Be Free. It’s not the whole quote. Here’s the entirely of it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free]: > Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. …That tension will
culture
A sobering look at the potential downsides of the Selfie culture…
academia
Well, this looks very interesting [http://www.datasociety.net/initiatives/fellows-program/]: > Data & Society is currently looking to assemble its inaugural class of fellows. The fellowship program is intended to bring together an eclectic network of researchers, entrepreneurs, activists, policy creators, journalists, geeks, and public intellectuals who are interested
change management
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/06/Axelle-Tessandier.jpg] Axelle Tessandier, Founder, Axl Agency [http://axlagency.com/] Being a digital hippies is a mindset. We are the first generation used to pervasive interconnectedness – and so we’re constantly exposed to ideas, news and emotions. 73% of
Liveblogged notes from sessions at the Open Data Cities Conference
cities
One of the advantages of often using the RSA House [http://www.thersa.org/house] as my London office is that there are some really excellent lunchtime events in my workplace. Today, Avner de-Shalit [http://www.deshalit.huji.ac.il/], professor of democracy and human rights at the Hebrew University