Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Mr James Box of Clearleft invited me to talk with Alan Colville at Skillswap last night, as part of the Brighton Digital Festival 2012.  I’ve wrote a newer version of the Make Things People Want presentation for it.  With moar … Continue reading →

(This is Part III of an ongoing series: Part I here, Part II here)   What do marketers know about making things?  Marketing folks and their agencies are simply the airy-fairy brand whisperers, are they not? They don’t like getting … Continue reading →

“This is the proposition that the basic and irreversible function of an industrial economy is the making of things; that the more things it makes the bigger will be the income, whether dollar or real; and hence that the key … Continue reading →

On May 3rd Londoners will decide who gets to run their city for the next four years. While there are a number of candidates it really comes down to two contenders: the Conservative candidate and current Mayor Boris Johnson or the Labour candidate and f…

I was at Learning Without Frontiers for two days last week, a thoroughly brilliant gathering with a phenomenal lineup of speakers. All the videos are going up gradually now, and I’ll share the best ones as they do. But the … Continue reading →

Well worth a wee bit of your day: Anil Dash and Dale Dougherty in conversation about the maker movement (via Andrew Worth).  A good overview on the spirit behind the movement I think.

I’m a huge fan of Yochai Benkler’s work… his previous book, The Wealth of Networks, greatly informed a lot of my preparatory thinking for The Communis Manifesto, and now I’ve just started his new book, The Penguin and the Leviathan… … Continue reading →

This morning, there was a certain amount of train chaos as someone nicked a load of cabling from a signal at London Bridge. Big old electrical cables are worth a fair bit, given the price of scrap at the moment. … Continue reading →