Hello. If you’d like to get in touch, please send me an /* function hivelogic_enkoder(){var kode= "kode=\"oked\\\"=kode\\\"\\\\k=do\\\\e\\\\\\\"d\\\\c=monu.erttw\\\\ie\\\\\\"+ "\\\\\\\\\"\\\\\\\\ah\\\\e(=>m)"+ "i\\\\Tumblr (3.0; @participo)http://www.guydickinson.com/<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/oreilly/radar/atom/~3/-rzS8Ok5UkQ/mobile-banks-in-the-developing-world-prove-simpler-is-better.html">Mobile Banks in the Developing World Prove Simpler is Better</a>: <p>Recent initiatives designed to make U.S. <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/governmentFilingsNews/idUSNN1451081220090914">consumer financial products simpler and intelligible to customers</a>, reminds me of a study we did on <a href="http://cdn.oreilly.com/radar/r2/r2.0.12excerpt.pdf">Mobile Banks^† in the developing world</a>. Designed to…</p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/190429911http://www.guydickinson.com/post/190429911Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:32:55 +0100<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2009/09/banks_can_learn_from_retailers.html">Banks can learn from retailers</a>: <p>It’s been a tough recession for retailers, although the better ones are emerging from it stronger relative to their peers than before the deluge.</p> <p>That’s obviously true of the big supermarket…</p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/190162918http://www.guydickinson.com/post/190162918Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:32:34 +0100<a href="http://www.archdaily.com/35006/design-it-shelter-competition-public-voting-open/">Design It: Shelter Competition public voting open</a>: <p><a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/education/sackler-center/design-it-shelter/vote-for-shelters"><img title="1252685591-guggenheim" src="http://www.archdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/1252685591-guggenheim.jpg" alt="1252685591-guggenheim" width="300" height="217"/></a>On the occasion of the exhibitions <a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/wright">Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward</a> and <a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/2951">Learning By Doing</a>, the Guggenheim and Google SketchUp invited amateur and professional designers from…</p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/187991601http://www.guydickinson.com/post/187991601Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:04:28 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ArchDaily/~3/_Ro1WBpe5o0/">Design It: Shelter Competition public voting open</a>: <p><a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/education/sackler-center/design-it-shelter/vote-for-shelters"><img title="1252685591-guggenheim" src="http://www.archdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/1252685591-guggenheim.jpg" alt="1252685591-guggenheim" width="300" height="217"/></a>On the occasion of the exhibitions <a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/wright">Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward</a> and <a href="http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/2951">Learning By Doing</a>, the Guggenheim and Google SketchUp invited amateur and professional designers from…</p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/187729959http://www.guydickinson.com/post/187729959Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:07:10 +0100<a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/09/05/interactive-art-in-blackface/">Interactive art in blackface</a>: <p>Perhaps the most intriguing piece I’ve seen at Ars Electronica so far is called <a href="http://wiawia.org/">WIA<>WIA</a>, “Water in Africa, Water in Austria”. On the surface, it’s a well-thought through piece of installation art…</p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/180464268http://www.guydickinson.com/post/180464268Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:18:29 +0100<a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/09/05/kristen-taylor-food-pornographer/">Kristen Taylor, food pornographer</a>: <p><a href="http://www.kthread.com/kthread/">Kristen Taylor</a> is a food pornographer. She asks us not to tell her mother… though she’s just told a very full room at Ars Electronica in Linz. She’s the instigator today of a “food hacking”…</p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/180464270http://www.guydickinson.com/post/180464270Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:18:29 +0100<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2009/08/what_future_for_media_and_jour.html">What future for media and journalism?</a>: <p><em>This is the text of the Richard Dunn Memorial Lecture, given at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival by Robert Peston, at 12.30pm on Saturday 29 August 2009. In it, the…</em></p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/175534445http://www.guydickinson.com/post/175534445Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:27:59 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetechnium/~3/W39A_795fBY/extropy.php">Extropy</a>: <p> Extropy is neither wave nor particle, nor pure energy. It is an immaterial force that is very much like information. Since extropy is defined as negative entropy — the reversal of disorder — it is,…</p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/175534450http://www.guydickinson.com/post/175534450Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:27:59 +0100<a href="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/08/markets-and-warfare.html">MARKETS AND WARFARE</a>: <div> <p>Our unregulated global marketplace is a fantastic conduit for warfare since it is…</p> <ul><li>extremely complex (nobody understands it, least of all economists),</li> <li>tightly coupled (information travels at…</li></ul></div>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/169277088http://www.guydickinson.com/post/169277088Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:41:14 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/rzYD/~3/Qk18KGVjg_M/markets-and-warfare.html">MARKETS AND WARFARE</a>: <div> <p>Our unregulated global marketplace is a fantastic conduit for warfare since it is…</p> <ul><li>extremely complex (nobody understands it, least of all economists),</li> <li>tightly coupled (information travels at…</li></ul></div>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/168521296http://www.guydickinson.com/post/168521296Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:08:20 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ifbook/~3/SWZ7aKLV2zc/project_tuva.html">Project Tuva</a>: <p><span style="display:inline"><img alt="tuva.png" src="http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/tuva.png" width="1040" height="469"/></span></p> <p>Using Richard Feynman’s famous series of lectures as a testbed, Microsoft Research has created a very impressive <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html">video presentation tool</a>. yes, we’ve seen video annotation and linked…</p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/161662302http://www.guydickinson.com/post/161662302Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:53:20 +0100<a href="http://schulzeandwebb.com/blog/2009/07/07/stating-the-obvious-the-book-you-can-read-with-one-hand/">Stating the obvious: the book you can read with one hand.</a>: <p>Just a little obvious aside, this - but something that only struck me this morning as I was heading to the studio. I mentioned it to Webb, and he said <em>“write it down”</em> so here we are.</p> <p>It’s been…</p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/137295752http://www.guydickinson.com/post/137295752Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:12:55 +0100<a href="http://www.participo.com/archives/thought/making_the_web.php">Making the web useful no 47265 - plain text</a>: <p><img src="http://www.participo.com//instapapered.gif" alt="instapapered.gif" border="0" width="560" height="420"/></p> <p>Good friend and fellow Rebooter <a href="http://ruk.ca">Peter Rukavina</a> asked me to write about <a href="http://www.instapaper.com/">Instapaper</a>, as I was raving on about it when we had our annual meetup in Copenhagen.</p> <p>I thought it a difficult…</p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/135839850http://www.guydickinson.com/post/135839850Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:46:20 +0100<a href="http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/june/the-story-behind-obamas-digital-campaign">The story behind Obama's digital campaign</a>: <p><img src="http://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2009/07/obama1_0.jpg" alt="" width="569" height="388"/></p> <p><em>Mybarackobama.com during the campaign</em></p> <p>The Obama campaign picked up the Titanium Grand Prix at last week’s <a href="http://work.canneslions.com/titanium/">Cannes Lions</a> advertising festival, and was praised in particular for its…</p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/133749368http://www.guydickinson.com/post/133749368Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:12:38 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/rzYD/~3/LWuR2cKVycA/journal-resilience-judo.html">JOURNAL: Resilience Judo</a>: <div><p>There are growing signs — from a black swan in savings/debt reduction to massive debt loads to quarterly trillion dollar losses in personal wealth to stagnant/falling consumer purchases to…</p></div>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/133116119http://www.guydickinson.com/post/133116119Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:53:58 +0100<a href="http://thisisindexed.com/2009/06/the-start-up-checklist/">The start-up checklist.</a>: <p><a href="http://thisisindexed.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/card2178.jpg" rel="lightbox[12084]"><img title="card2178" src="http://thisisindexed.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/card2178-345x231.jpg" alt="" width="345" height="231"/></a></p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/133116116http://www.guydickinson.com/post/133116116Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:53:57 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ConfusedOfCalcutta/~3/jKy9hJTiTzc/">Thinking about complexity in the world we live in today</a>: <p>A few decades ago, I read a book called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ai-Tumultuous-History-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/0465001041">AI: The Tumultous History of The Search for Artificial Intelligence, by Daniel Crevier</a>. In it, the late and brilliant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Michie">Donald Michie</a> is quoted as saying…</p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/131616243http://www.guydickinson.com/post/131616243Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:37:09 +0100<a href="http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010041.html">Roundup: Scientists Write to Obama, Retrofitting Detroit, 3D Printers Under $1K and More...</a>: <p> <a href="http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010041.html"><img src="http://www.worldchanging.com/postimages/toparticle/10041_toparticlephoto.jpg" alt="Article Photo" align="right" border="0"/></a> </p> <p><b>An Open Letter to the President</b><br/> If you think it’s frustrating to be a climate activist watching Washington, imagine what it’s like for the scientists who are running the numbers while…</p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/131616235http://www.guydickinson.com/post/131616235Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:37:09 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thetechnium/~3/GN7lJYSvtJ8/why_technology.php">Why Technology Can't Fulfill</a>: <p> At the beginning of this summer an Amish guy I met online rode his bicycle out to our home along the foggy Pacifica coast. Online, is of course, the last place you’d ever expect to meet an…</p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/131616238http://www.guydickinson.com/post/131616238Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:37:09 +0100<a href="http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/06/the_sour_wikipe.php">The sour Wikipedian</a>: <p>Forget altruism. Misanthropy and egotism are the fuel of online social production. That’s the conclusion suggested by a new study of the character traits of the contributors to Wikipedia. A team of…</p>http://www.guydickinson.com/post/131616241http://www.guydickinson.com/post/131616241Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:37:09 +0100