Stop what you're doing. Sit back. Take twenty minutes. Watch this.
Essential viewing on why our econmonic models are now out of date, why the banking system is no longer relevant and why this is a good thing. No, seriously.
Are you listening Gordon Brown?
'How the Web Ate the Economy and Why it’s Great for Everyone' from web 2.0/social media guru, the ever-challenging (and usually right) Doug Rushkoff:
In case you think I'm raving (which, let's face it, is not beyond the realms of possibility), note that we're already seeing how social media and mobile technologies are helping people circumnavigate the stranglehold that financial institutions have over us.
Thursday, 30 April 2009
Can The Mobile Phone Kill The Bank?
Let's hope so, eh? A fascinating piece from the Guardian tech section on how Kenyans are by-passing banks by using an online service called M-Pesa to pay for goods and services using their mobile phones. Yes, I know, the possibiities for fraud must be legendary here, but there is one very simple advantage: using a service like M-Pesa means that money transfers take 14 seconds. Not the three days which the average bank takes, in which time your cash has been invested in something dodgy, accrued interest and made the bank more money. Which is probably the same bank which your taxes recently bailed out and awarded a £750,000 a year pension to the fat, obnoxious, incompotent, Rotarian gas-bag that sold it down the toilet in the first place and who...
Sorry.
Read more here.
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
London Timelapse
Andy Hudson-Smith's Digital Urban blog is always fascinating and well worth the subscription click. This is an intriguing timelapse video of London. Watch out for the fire that breaks out half way through...
London Timelapse: Aircraft and Smoke from digitalurban on Vimeo.
More at Digital Urban
London Timelapse: Aircraft and Smoke from digitalurban on Vimeo.
More at Digital Urban
Social Media for Non-Profits
Want to use social media goodies to help get your non-profit/development group seen and heard? Do yourself a favour and drop by Beth's blog.
About Beth:
Beth Kanter is a trainer, blogger, and consultant to nonprofits and individuals in effective use of social media. Her expertise is how to use new web tools (blogging, tagging, wikis, photo sharing, video blogging, screencasting, social networking sites, and virtual worlds, etc) to support nonprofit. She has worked on projects that include: training, curriculum development, research, and evaluation. She is an experienced coach to "digital immigrants" in the personal mastery of these tools.
Read more at Beth's Blog.
Anyone got any more suggestions for sources of info on using social media for non-profits, development and social change?
Monday, 27 April 2009
Serious Games and Flu Pandemics
Going through my feedreader last night, I came across this post from Future Making Serious Games:
As the Netherlands’ most multifaceted university medical center, the Erasmus Medical Center creates special opportunities for patient care, training and research - every day, over 12,000 employees are working hard towards this objective.
The Erasmus Medical Center is an innovative UMC in which high-quality knowledge is being developed, passed on to future professionals and applied in patient care. It covers covers a broad field of interests that stretches from illness to health, and from individual to community healthcare.
Let's hope they're not too late, eh?
More at the www.thegreatflu.com/
Friday, 24 April 2009
A Multimedia Design Masterclass
Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.
Hat tip to Michelle Gallen (whose new blog is superb and well worth looking at).
I haven't been able to confirm it yet but I'm pretty sure this is by H5, the same chaps that did the 'Remind Me' video for Royksopp.
UPDATE: Not the same company, but definitely an open homage to the work of H5. Still bloody brilliant.
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
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