I recently read this wonderful interview with Mick Jagger on the BBC website which had this fantastic extract about the impact of the internet on the music industry. What I love about this interview is that Mick Jagger is, of course, about as old a legend as you can find in the music industry. …I’m [...]
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Mick Jagger & why copyright doesn’t always help artists
Digital Economy Strategy: Why we risk asking the wrong question
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise…. – John Tukey I’ve always admired Paul Erdos, the wandering mathematician who I first learned about by reading his obituary in the Economist back in 1996 (and later learned was a friend [...]
Feeding the next economy – Give us a stimulus that stimulates, not placates
Last December – as the debates over the stimulus packages were just beginning, I wrote a piece on why the wrong stimulus today could fail us tomorrow. Well, today has become tomorrow, and we are failing. A stimulus package should be an investment. It should create new industries and markets, it should find help create [...]
The Open Cities Blog on the Creative Exchange
Excited to let everyone know that I’ll be blogging at the Creative Exchange on Open Cities. I’ll continue to blog here 4 times a week and the pieces I post there I’ll cross-post here as well. It’s an opportunity to talk about how openess and transparency can/will change our cities to a wider audience. Wish [...]
Articles I’m digesting 6/2/2009
The Quiet Unravelling of Canadian Democracy by James Travers This poignant piece by James Travers is long overdue. The concentration of power in the Prime Minister’s Office – which started with Trudeau and has continued with each successive Prime Minister – along with the decline of cabinet and of parliamentary committees, is corroding our governing [...]
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