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This past week at TED, David Cameron, Britain’s Conservative Party leader talks about a new era in politics, where governments have less power and money and people empowered by technology have more of both.

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Hugely looking forward to the Travellers’ Tales Festival, taking place at the historic headquarters of the Royal Geographical Society in London later this month. I think it’s the only festival in the world dedicated to travel writing and photography, so it’s probably a must for anyone interested in either or both – and probably for [...]

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Cortexica’s Steve Semenzato demos Winefinder at VatorSplash in San Francisco this past week. The magic behind Winefinder is an image recognition technology that informs a buyer of the kind of wine they are buying simply from a photograph of the…

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Iris. Love the name, and so I hit play on a ten hour British Airways flight. What’s not to like? It’s a flower and says the movie narrative, the name of one of the most respected British novelists. The film,…

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In the press and blogger lounge at LeWeb in Paris earlier this month, I interviewed Worldeka’s Sophie Cox who talks to us about how charities and communities can use their service to extend their conversations, their voice and their brand.

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Each year, in the UK, at least 75,000 youngsters experience homelessness. One in three attempt suicide – sometimes successfully. And one in seven are physically or sexually assaulted. Tomorrow, folks in England will be joining people sleeping on the streets…

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Hello and welcome to Mitzi TV! Well, that’s how I always start off my spiel.
In case you didn’t already know (like where you been, mate?), Mitzi TV is the new web TV channel to head to for all things quirky and eccentric in London. We’ve gone from crazy pub singalongs, eating jellied eel, and [...]

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The beginning of the end. Unilever goes the crowdsourcing route to spruce up TV ads and recruit creative ideas. After 16 years of using the same ad agency, they’re throwing up a $10,000 prize offering for the best creative marketing…

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These are some thoughts on TED and the advertising industry after Green Thing returned from TED Global 2009 a few weeks ago. The big problem for the advertising industry is that it wrote the manifesto for the 20th century’s ideology…

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In a dialogue back and forth with Martin Thomas recently, we talked “crowd surfing.” Below are some interesting and amusing extracts from his book. “There is a story, probably apocryphal, about an architect who designed a university campus. On the…

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