August 2008
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Charles Leadbeater: We Think - the power of mass...
BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from... →
I just find it staggering that a company the size of Hasbro could fail to realise that it’s the interface that made scrabulous successful, not the game. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
If anything slightly more stupid than those scrabulous players who saw nothing intrinsically problematic about a couple of guys making money from someone else’s IP…
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Social Innovation Competition 2008 →
Quick post about the finalists of this years competition organised by the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas.
The winner of the $50,000 first prize was Husk Power Systems who work with small villages in India to convert rice husks which are an agricultural by-product into a sustainable fuel for electricity generation via a gassification process, and then convert the rice...
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I’m blogging this article from the BBC not because I have a particular interest in the GM issue or in what Charles Windsor has to say, but because I think it provides a glimpse into a brighter journalistic future on the web.
There are two things about this article that push me towards that view: firstly, it is a response to a previous news item intended to provide context to that story and I...
