Go Follow Yourself
It’s been going on quietly for years; the brains and bodies of nerds and athletes have been coupled to all manner of sensors and data-netting gizmos (voluntarily and without medical intervention) from heart-rate monitors, biofeedback fingerware, sleep trackers, wearable cameras, oximeters, accelerometers, blood-pressure cuffs, GPS to old-fashioned stopwatches employed to track and map the...
When thinking gets too expensive
What luck for rulers, that men do not think. – Adolph Hitler The Internet is a copy machine. At a fundamental distribution level, but also at the human content level. Copying what we see and like, or realise gets results, is one of the keys to how humans have been such a successful species. What...
Out where social media isn’t a vanity sport
There was a time not too long ago, when the bit that followed Marlon Parker‘s name on a speaker’s list was “Cape Peninsula University of Technology”. One of those times was at a dinner to wrap up the 4th iteration of Nomadic Marketing. Marlon was introducing the Reconstructed Living project (RLabs), using that most loved-by-teens|vilified-by-teachers/parents...
You’re in Facebook country now
Emissaries of Facebook have paid South Africa an official visit. As Facebook.com’s 29th ranked country, with 2,322 million unique monthly visitors [track the latest figures on Facebakers.com] we have cracked the nod, and now gently herded into the fold to meet the business end of Facebook. The Emerging Market EMEA diplomats sent to charm the natives;...
TED (x) spark catches in Jo’burg
AT LAST! The TEDxJoburgNorth programme, launching on the 15th July 2009, will be the beginning of many more such TEDx events in the city. I’m helping to gather the forces for a city.size TED Johannesburg in November with TEDsters and fellow raving fans, under the passionate leadership of publisher Alicia Woolf [want to get the...
COPYRIGHT INFO: Some Rights Reserved - unless otherwise noted -