You need to watch a video that captures, in just over five minutes, a strong analogy of the American mindset.
Last week, Steven Colbert had Cornell West on his show.  It is an incredible interview.  Two highly influential American change agents — each of whom has built an impactful and borderline absurd public persona — face […]

I couldn’t be more excited about getting to work with AWhere on helping design a collective intelligence engine for the UN Foundation.
Here’s a recent two-part intervew I did at the AWhere Blog with UNF change agent Kevin Starace.  In his words:
As chair of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Performance Subcommittee we’re mandated to help the […]

Can you concentrate?  I’ve been having a rough time this week.
I have promised myself to leave politics out of this blog, but it’s not out of my mind.
And the economic debacle … I’m hardly consoled with the “I told you so” feeling that has been driving me nuts.  Since there were only one or two […]

At Business Catapult, we’re powering the Angel Capital Summit.
As I wrote at the Business Catapult Blog,
As supporting partners, Business Catapult provides our entire suite of tools, and provide many new features to what would otherwise be a typical investor fair.  For instance:

Investors can review deals prior to the conference, and participate in a collective intelligence […]

Over the years, I’ve done a lot of reading and thinking about what it means to have virtual countries, as an extension of virtual communities.  I’ve investigated citizenship, legal and virtual, and have learned a lot about island nations, especially Sealand.
One of my current projects is designing a hybrid social network and media portal for […]

My “new best friend” Anita Burke has sent me two pieces recently that demonstrate how quickly climate change is affecting business in financial and legal ways.
First, a court in the UK just exonerated protesters who caused $70,000 worth of damage to a coal plant, using a British legal tenet exemplified as “it’s OK to break […]

As part of our work in building a unique community that focuses on intelligent matching of entrepreneurs and investors, we have launched the Business Catapult blog.
Focused on the education of angel investors, and to a lesser extent, the provocation of venture capitalists, we break the blog down into three channels:

101: Investing Basics, including valuations, investment […]

It’s been a great summer over at AWhere, where breakthroughs in geo-analysis, location intelligence and busines map mashups have come one right after another.

CPG Vision lets category managers at consumer package goods companies visualize the entirety of their Retail Link data from WalMart, and correlate it with demographic data from Neilsen as well as weather […]

The New Yorker ran a great piece on the neuro-science of insight, which helps us see how we come to a place of mental inspiration.
In a nutshell, insight happens when ideas cross the hemispheres, and are acted upon in both halves of the brain.  As the article explains,
Once the brain is sufficiently focused on the […]

OK, so we took August off.  Sue us.  (please don’t actually)
But things are rolling, work is exciting, thoughts are brewing and the world is changing (faster that you thought).