Artists Innovate, Businesses Catch On
This is another piece I wrote for Innovation magazine. I’m trying to integrate it into Chapter 1 of the book.
In the Donostia area of San Sebastian in the Basque region of Spain staff at the Disonancias Art, R&D and Innovation project are getting ready to launch their third annual international call for artists. Calls for […]
Deception in Television
For a while now I’ve been of the view that it is the irrelevance of much television that hits audience ratings hardest. The fact that an organisation like the BBC is in crisis because it deceives viewers adds spice to the debate but it’s not necessarily what the debate should be about. By the way […]
Ryan and Donncha in the Gallery
Ryan Whalley and Donncha O’Caoimh are two photographers I admire greatly and I’ve been trying to get them into the gallery every since we opened. The gallery’s mission is to promote people who have unusual talent but who might struggling to make their breakthrough because for example their technique is particularly innovative. Clearly the case […]
Politics Ireland
Damien Mulley, ever resourceful, is relaunching Politics Ireland, a non-partisan. aggregator of blogs nd information on Irish politicians. Looks like all lkinds of webby things are picking up with Conor’s Louder Voice picking up and the Paddy’s Valley tour gaining the attention of the Irish Times.
More on innovation
I wrote this for Innovation magazine and want to adapt it slightly to make up the final part of chapter 1, the first two parts being the last two posts!.
A traveler leaving Silicon Valley in California and flying to Bilbao in Spain would pass two of the most important public arts projects in the […]
Innovation or Progress
I know blog posts should be full of links and conversations but here I’m trying to nail down a few ideas so this is a musing post rather than a conversational one - unless people want to respond!
Although the auto industry enjoys a reputation for exceptional innovation and rapid technological adoption, Chris Bangle, chief of […]
Booking
That we’re in a period of profound transition hardly needs stating but what drives it? Or rather who and why? For the best part of human history if you wanted to change the world around you then it would be through the political system, or the military, or as an engineer or occasionally through the […]
The Blog vs Facebook
It seems Facebook can even drive people out of business - the blogging business anyway. I know other people have been covering this but I wanted to throw my twopence worth. Ambuscading makes the point that streams of consciousness work better on Facebook and of course Facebook/twitter come to resemble colelctive streams of conscousness. There […]
Meetings
A few meetings recently inspired a rethink of my own attitude towards blogging. Met with Rob and Jonathan from Cybercom up in Dublin last week. They’re doing some interesting work on digital marketing and they tell me the whole area is growing strongly now Ireland has good broadband penetration. My talk with them centred […]