Good reminder that innovation doesn’t have to be ground-breaking: the Japanese Kit Kat regional specialities is genius. What is the equivalent disruption in your sector?
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Shirky on paywall
Lovely quote among many: And to put it in one bleak sentence, no medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds
Posted in Engagement, ICT
Digital engagement needs to part of something bigger
Lots of good stuff in Dave’s post on the need for a new focus for digital engagement. My take is compatible, but different. I think digital engagement will become a substrate to “normal” activities. We won’t think about digital or…
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Posted in Engagement
Digital inclusion needs careful management
Lots to digest in this summary of evidence on the effects on children of increased home computer availability. Two key points: Mathematics and reading test scores drop a little with the growing use of home computers Introduction of broadband internet…
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Posted in Digital inclusion, eGovernment
Tableau public and open data
Tableau Public looks like a great data analysis option for open data munging. Quick and easy to use and generates web interactive visualisations. Neat.
Posted in Engagement
Expensive apps give an intriguing glimpse of the future
Good to see that there are reasonably priced apps available (here $15 / $25) that can make real money for their creators. These aren’t micropayments, but they are small enough to be impulse purchases and not really noticed in the…
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Posted in ICT