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the evening standard - being human

Might be a cynical ploy - but to me its human...here

the pope was a Nazi right?

and he's visiting Israel - this is pretty bizarre - or are we all missing something?

HE WAS IN THE HILTER YOUTH - AND HE'S THE HEAD OF THE ONE OF THE MOST REACTIONARY AND ANTI SEMITIC ORGANIZATIONS CONCEIVED BY MAN AND HE'S PRAYING IN ISRAEL!!!

its a crazy world we live in....

twitter and linked data....

after figuring out a really clever way to use twitter to drive an application we're hoping to build for axa - and having just read a post from tim o'reilly about how twitter saves him time here - I'm starting to get my head around some of the root causes of its popularity - I've never been an early adopter - I'm only half a geek - I like to see which things appeal to my "normal" side before I dive in usually

I spend 2 hours a day, reading blogs, pulling ideas out of the web and figuring out how brands can use them. for people immersed in the online world - keeping up with the sheer array of people who might be interesting / useful / interested is one of the major challenges - I now get how twitter has helped force the condensation of these conversations to a manageable length

but its the data that we're able to pull from its API which might still make me a real fan. I'm a linked data cheerleader - and to be able to sample such a rich stream of sentiment from across the world so easily I've realised is massively powerful - yeah you can do it from traditional social media platforms - but the simplicity of 140 characters makes it so seductively easy...

an apple for the old world...

I'm making an (admittedly long) bet that the next broadside / revolution to hit the "old" economy is virtual businesses, cyber squatting on old skool business models. just like apple did with the record labels..

What do I mean....

Take builders merchants, insurance companies, healthcare providers - in fact pretty much any old world brand who hasn't embraced the web.

What is to stop well funded, agile startups, deploying cutting edge technology to offer the products of old world industries, forcing the brands whose patch they're squatting on, to play ball and supply them?

An agile startup raises a couple of mill and puts together a slick, lightweight site which offers everything the old world merchant does (or more likely just the higher margin stuff).
They take the trouble to integrate an enterprise level CMS, stock management and ecommerce system and then approach every brand in the sector to tell them they've solved their biggest IT headache - an all singing, all dancing online presence - no capital cost - they only want 30% of the net.

Board of old school company, faced with the prospect of their own pedestrian IT department coming up with the goods anytime soon (and in a bid to generate much needed revenues in the short term to help the shareprice and this years bonus...) agree - thinking they'll balance control issues with the upside of owning the offline relationship with their customers and by retaining their "brand values" (which of course mean s**t on the web).

Its happened once – it could happen again….

we need the backwaters and the lanes...

Recently we were staying with a load of mates in a big house in another part of the country.

I was out running with no particular goal. Just finding my way down small roads and it stuck me forcefully as I jogged - us humans - we need the backwaters and the lanes.

I'm not even sure I know exactly what I mean. Just that we humans need real and virtual places out of view, off the beaten track, where its safe to think, love, fight - whatever. Out of the view of public scrutiny and debate. Somewhere to foster ideas - somewhere our ego can take a backseat.

the seeds of the next disaster....

Watching a great visualisation on the credit crisis here it occurred to me - if you accept Jonathan Jarvis's basic premise - that the abundance of credit in the early part of this decade was down to the secondary effects of the dotcom bubble bursting - then it may well be, the seeds of the next financial disaster are being sown as we speak - and the likely candidates aren't too difficult to find...

- overstimulated economies from excessive fiscal intervention, social unrest due to governments ignoring the effects of climate change, population migration, resource depletion, national anger (in the US particularly) about a loss of status in the world...