February 2012
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January 2012
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“Knowledge is now the property of the network. The smartest person in the room is...”
– David Weinberger in Too Big to Know
via Not So Fast | Think Quarterly by Google
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“These are particles with a will”
– Dirk Helbing on Pedestrians.
IMAGINE that you are French. You are walking along a busy pavement in Paris and another pedestrian is approaching from the opposite direction. A collision will occur unless you each move out of the other’s way. Which way do you step?
The answer is almost certainly to...
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The Size (reposted from faststream.hmg.gov.uk)
Before I joined Poke, I spent a couple of years in the UK Civil Service as one of the first few people to join via the Technology in Business Fast Stream, launched a few years ago to plug the (then widening) digital skills gap in Government. When I was asked by the Cabinet Office to write about some of my experiences last year, I put together the post below, which was published last May.
While I...
December 2011
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“UK consumers are more likely to access social networking sites on a mobile phone...”
– From Ofcom’s International Communications Report 2011, up from 24% in 2010 (US was 22% last year).
Also of interest:
In the UK, twice as many people claim to have a Friends Reunited profile as a MySpace one (sorry Tom/Rupert)
Mobile access to Social Networks will likely overtake Desktop...
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October 2011
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How many times can one man say...
June 2011
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“They fear disruption far more than they do destruction. They push the decision...”
– On large companies - George W. Buckley, CEO of 3M.
[via Public Strategist]
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“I’m interested in the solved problem. I’m interested in high art and real...”
– Edward Tufte, the information sage
[The Washington Monthly via IfYouOnly via gnat]
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May 2011
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“…learn to recognise opportunities and (more importantly) make sure to...”
– Some advice for potential new recruits to Technology in Business I posted on the Civil Service Fast Stream blog last week.
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March 2011
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“Security officers are rightly fearful of being blamed for incidents, and in the...”
– Going slightly off-topic, “Big Brother Watch: The state of civil liberties in Modern Britain” perfectly sums up one of the key reasons why innovation is so lacking in Government IT - interestingly edited by David Cameron’s former Chief of Staff.
February 2011
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Start as you mean to go on?
I’m not a big believer in the mantra I’ve alluded to in the title. I think it’s more important to just start - we live in an age in which it’s becoming increasingly acceptable to try things out, test what works, then learn from mistakes (and from successes).
For some reason all of this seems to have passed Government by, particularly when it comes to technology and its...