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the best solution to Search Engine Optimisation

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One of the ideas that I really liked in Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith is that to be successful on the web, you need to ‘change the game’ (my full review of the book is here). The idea here is that you need to create an entirely new category for whatever it […]

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focus on process, not tools

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I’m reading Kill All Your Darlings by Luc Sante at the moment, which is very good. It includes a number of pieces on culture, many originally from Village Voice or the New York Review of Books. Sante is a fantastic writer and there are a number of great lines throughout the book, but one just […]

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Jeff Jarvis on new business models for news

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I’ve talked a fair bit about business models for journalism, but Jeff Jarvis has thought about it a whole lot more than I have. Here is a video of Jarvis talking about the new ecosystem for news, and how to build successful, money-making news organisations: Jeff Jarvis on New Business Models for News 2009 from […]

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the importance of executing ideas

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I’ve always been a fan of Charles Darwin. I think that he was a great scientist – a careful observer and deep thinker. But I still agree with many of Richard Lewontin’s points from his recent article about Darwin in the New York Review of Books. The main point that Lewontin makes in the first […]

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barriers to innovation?

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Here’s a question for today – what are your biggest barriers to innovation? The one that I run up against the most myself is institutional inertia. Risk aversion is probably the biggest barrier that I’ve run into in my consulting and research. But I’m interested in hearing about yours in the comments! (picture from flickr/reinvented […]

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the innovation strategy of flowers

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That’s a grevillea from our front yard, and I took that picture in the dead of winter. Admittedly, the dead of winter in Brisbane is not exactly harsh, but when I shared that picture with friends in North America and Europe, they still thought it was pretty odd to see such a beautiful flower in […]

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Trust Agents Change the Game

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I just finished reading Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. It’s a terrific book, and for many people it will end up being essential. While the book looks at how to use the web to build business, it is not a tech book – it is actually one of the best business books […]

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twitter and the blog

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There’s been a bit going on in terms of our communication strategy recently, and I thought it might be worth giving a quick update on what’s happening. As a bonus, I’ll frame it by talking about how it fits with the idea of aggregate, filter & connect. Our objective in writing this blog is to […]

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the status quo

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From Seth Godin today: The reason that they want you to fit in is that once you do, then they can ignore you. This ends up being a major obstacle to innovation. We usually think of a corporate culture as a good thing, but if it places too much value on conformance, that’s bad. Adam […]

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probabilities

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This might not make much sense to all the readers here in Australia, but I’ll give it a go – an interesting thing happened in the Monday Night Football this week – the Patriots lost after failing to convert a 4th and 2 on their own 28 yard line with a couple of minutes to […]

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more priorities

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Via Dan Pink – Russell Ackhoff makes a point very similar to Peter Drucker’s: All of our social problems arise out of doing the wrong thing righter. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing […]

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filtering when you’re small

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In a strange confluence of events, yesterday I: wrote a post about filtering and connecting when you’re a small enterprise; then Clay Shirky wrote about almost exactly the same subject in a post on algorithmic authority; then I ended up talking about the same topic with Paul Moynagh from the innovation consulting group Tough Problem. […]

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