Author: KB
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Seeing Red ¦ The Commodification of Poverty
There’s been a lot of media attention given to Bono’s initiative ‘Brand Red’ recently. The Independent is edited by him today (nice cover by Damien Hirst). And yesterday saw the launch of a Motorola phone which, when bought, gives £10 to development charities, and, when used, gives 5% of call charges too. I have to…
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I Might Be Wrong
Ever get racked with doubts? Just want to call the whole thing off, write the last post, become a labourer on a building site, or something simple, and never think again, just watch soaps and drink too much and love Christmas and keep upgrading my phone and blow the whole lot on a HD ready…
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SwarmSketch
“Collective sketching of the collective consciousness.” Via Wired. Emergence-y question: will the sketches get better and better with time, or will they need chasing down from local peaks to properly improve? Technorati Tags: Art, cartoons, Complexity, Emergence, Swarm, Technology
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Steven Johnson | Fed-Ex Planes in Thunderstorms
If you’ve read The Complex Christ, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of Steven Johnson’s book ‘Emergence – the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software‘. Turns out he has a blog, plus a new book launching in London this autumn. The blog is well worth visiting if you’re interested in emergence and…
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Blog Censorship – Be honest
Do you censor comments? While I do delete the occasional bit of spam and any ‘double comments’, I don’t ever censor comments (and thankfully at the moment I’m not getting enough spam to have to pre-moderate). But I’ve noticed others do… I’ve had comments of mine deleted/adjusted, for reasons I’m genuinely not sure about, and…
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Sultan’s Elephant
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This is what we live in London for! Spectacular Spectacular! Strange, you wait ages for a blog post on French elephants in the city, and then two come along at once… But this was no Babar, rather a fabulous day of carnival from the Royal de Luxe group. It’s been going on for the past…