The rise of the creative consumer [The Economist]
How and why smart companies are harnessing the creativity of their customers. Read full story
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Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
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A spiritual connection [The Economist]
Around the world, mobile phones seem to have a spiritual or supernatural dimension that other forms of technology lack. Read full story
Behind the digital divide [The Economist]
Much is made of the “digital divide†between rich and poor. What do people on the ground think about it? Read full story
The future, just around the bend [The Economist]
Ray Kurzweil is an accomplished inventor, but he is best known for his wild prognostications about the future. Is he as crazy as he sounds? Read full story
The empathy economy [Business Week]
“Design thinking” can create rewarding experiences for consumers — the key to earnings growth and an edge that outsourcing can’t beat. Read full story
Wearable computers you can slip into [Business Week]
The latest generation of these ever-smarter garments look like ordinary clothes, not something only a cyborg would don. Read full story
Investment bank sees blogging as way to find ‘stars of tomorrow’ [The New York Times]
Blogging has transformed political commentary, rattled the media business and inundated the Internet. Does it have a place on Wall Street? ThinkEquity Partners, a boutique investment bank in San Francisco, was going to find out on Thursday by introducing a…
Artful making: what managers need to know about how artists work
Artful Making offers the first proven, research-based framework for engineering ingenuity and innovation. This book is the result of a multi-year collaboration between Harvard Business School professor Robert Austin and leading theatre director and playwright Lee Devin. Together, they demonstrate…
Blogging at the Davos World Economic Forum
Even the Davos World Economic Forum now has its own weblog. Go to the Davos blog
Microsoft’s chief humanising officer [The Economist]
Does Robert Scoble, a celebrity blogger on Microsoft’s payroll, herald the death of traditional public relations? Read full story
Eternal optimist [Metropolis Magazine]
Architect William McDonough has witnessed China’s rapid modernisation and sees hope for sustainable development. He is working to bring his cradle-to-cradle protocol to China, where old buildings are being demolished as quickly as new ones are constructed. Read full story
The good company [The Economist]
Corporate social responsibility as the tribute that capitalism pays to virtue. Read full story
Microsoft Project Seeks ‘A PC in Every Village’ [Seattle Post – Intelligencer]
Microsoft Corp.’s research unit is turning to social scientists in a new effort to understand the long-term possibilities for computer technology in developing countries. A Microsoft Research lab, to be inaugurated tomorrow in Bangalore, India, plans to employ anthropologists, ethnographers…
E-culture advisory
“Digital media have not only made in-roads in the way visual artists, musicians, designers, film makers and other cultural practitioners work – they have created a new context”. Michiel Schwarz’s insightful Dutch policy paper on “e-culture”, that has just…
Creative Capital conference
Culture and creativity are the latest “buzzwords” in the debate on innovation strategies for the knowledge economy. But what is the cultural dimension of the knowledge economy? And what does this imply for the public domain? These were the central…
Is America losing its edge [Foreign Affairs]
The long-standing pre-eminence of US technology and innovation worldwide may now face a challenge, as the changing face of the global marketplace takes its toll. As US trade and development has expanded overseas, partner nations have taken advantage of…
Museum mania in China
The Chinese government intends to build 1,000 new museums across the country by 2015. A scary piece by Elizabeth Casale in The Platform, an e-zine on cultural policy, says that China’s “place-based cultural strategy” is leading to a glut of…
Design, key factor for success [Philips]
Speech by Dr. Stefano Marzano, CEO & Chief Creative Director of Philips Design at the German Marketing Association Conference in Hamburg. Read the full speech
New WWF freshwater site
Over the last few months I have been working at an overhaul of the WWF Freshwater site. It was more of a content and editing job than a technical challenge and I am very pleased with the result. Go to…
New WWF climate change site
Over the last few months I have been working at an overhaul of the WWF Climate Change site. It was more of a content and editing job than a technical challenge and I am very pleased with the result. Go…