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Open Object’s People Powered Database
It is said that every object tells a story. This is very true in our oft-branded world where the packaging and design of objects are there to tell us the story the object’s makers wish us to see....
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The 10% Tipping Point of Ideas in a Population
This is fascinating. According to research, once around 10% of the population believe firmly in an issue, then even though a minority, it is enough of the population to create a tipping point to...
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The New Model Army – How the US Copied al-Qaida to Kill It
I’d written before on the idea of the ‘new model army‘ – a military force structured along the lines of P2P theory (voluntary self-aggregation of effort). It seems like former US commander, Stanley...
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Democracy in the Workplace
In the West we often accept and defend democratic ideas in politics – but what about in the workplace? I think its important for us to think about workplaces in the sense of spaces that are democratic...
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Open Science – Making It Work
Mun Keat, who runs the blog over at the Wellcome Trust amongst other things, has a really interesting write up on the issue of Open Science from the recent Science Online London event (also posted...
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Can Social Media Help Predict the Future?
There has been a fluffy of articles online about how close analysis of the masses of data generated by social media and other digital technologies may allow a means of predicting the future, for...
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Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land Spawns onto an Unsuspecting World
Along with my colleagues at Red Wasp Design, we’ve spent about 1 year of work time in total (probably a bit more…) working on the game, Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land. If you’re new to the game and...
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Crowd Funding Science (and finding exomoons)
So games, films and other projects have been getting crowd funded. All of which is exciting – and now science is too! Petridish.org, a crowd-funding website restricted specifically to accredited...
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Gaming Malaria
Malaria is a huge killer globally. It is estimated that 1 million people per year are killed by it. It’s a complex problem too; curing it has proven hard but given it is prevalence in parts of the...
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Censoring the Net – What Does Not Work, Won’t Work
We’ve had a lot more talk of this in the UK. At first is was adopting the ‘three strikes you’re out’ law that France used. It’s been dropped now, I suspect because it practically unenforceable without...
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