This on stage interview session 'What Teens Want' is well worth a listen, mainly because of the huge confidence of the panel and the increasingly competitive atmosphere in the audience. Poor Skype.
IT conversations on Thursday 16
Neil Gershenfeld has been a hero of mine for a while. I like people who like making things.
IT conversations on Thursday 15
I know it's a few days late. Sorry. But here's an interview with Dr. Louann Brizendine on 'The Female Brain'.
IT conversations on Thursday 14
Here's Yochai Benkler talking about 'the Participation Revolution'. Very good.
IT conversations on Thursday 13
This stuff is fascinating. Christopher Allen talks about The Dunbar Number (" a measure of the cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom a person can maintain stable relationships") and it's implications for social software and online games. But which also must have all sorts of implictions for business structure and for brands - as they try to maintain relationships with people. I really like the idea of brands thinking about grooming. Especially worth listening to if you're in a company of about 13 people.
IT conversations on Thursday 12
Every now and then the memetics meme pops up in advertising. WCRS were banging on about it last year (are they still?) and Richard's dabbled with it. It's very seductive because it feels like a new and possibily effective science for understanding brands and ideas. And it promises to be an all encompassing science too, not the usual kludge of psychology, anthropology, economics etc that makes up planning. But who knows? Anyway, this talk from Susan Blackmore is a representative introduction, in that she explains it very energetically, but she doesn't quite convince you it's useful.
IT conversations on Thursday 10
(I know it's a bit late, blame typepad and travel). This one's a bit dry but it's well worth listening to. It's Verna Allee talking about the value networks that surround businesses and organisations, and it's about discussing the value of intangible assetts which should be of interest to any planner.
IT conversations on Thursday 9
I find much of what Paul Graham writes and says simultaneously fascinating and annoying. Which is often a mark of an interesting thinker. You can probably spot for yourselves the parallels between hackers and planners in this talk.
IT conversations on Thursday 8
Hey all you Continuous Partial Attention junkies. Here's who invented it - Linda Stone with a fantastic presentation from Emerging Technology 2006.