I attended today a conference in Gent, “Ondernemen in Vlaanderen”
Earlier today I twittered: “In Dutch now, but why the talks about talent come always to the same diagnosis?”.
This short article (800 words) is to share some considerations from few conferences that I followed today.
More than one month ago, I wrote that from August 16th I would have started using something that I suggested to Google for fun, my GoogleTranslateReady concept.
Then, I wrote that I had actually started the experiment in early August, in my “virtual village” on Draugiem.Lv
This is my report, one month later.
I could not resist the temptation to publish it on… 2009/09/09 
If you are based in US, or work within the entertainment industry, you probably know what is “studio accounting“.
And this post adds a funny billing system, that is one step ahead in adding creativity in a billing system.
In my consulting activity, I always find boring when systems are not aligned- and I do not mean just information technology.
I mean stupid things like organizations that set up campaigns, and then forget to inform everybody that the campaign is closed, and therefore their branches keep selling something to get a commission… after the campaign is closed
Or leaving around in places that you control posters announcing… something that ended months ago.
Aristotle said that, by nature, we are all political animals.
When I wrote in the title “everyday politics” I was not thinking about “professional” politics.
I was simply stating: with the new technologies, that disrupt the usual communication organizations and control, everybody can do a political action. Everyday.
Read below to see how to begin now. Without a budget. Just a brain and a keyboard, and some experience to share.
On how interpretation based on experience is not necessarily the best strategy.
And alternative approaches (with examples).
Well, this post is unusual- as it is more a celebration and public “thank you” note that really something informative.
My thank you note to Prof. M. Hodges and Prof. N. Dattani, who I met respectively in 1994 and 1995 at LSE, attending their Summer School classes.
XXI century encyclopedias and knowledge processing.
How Google, WolframAlpha, Wikipedia, and Eurostat process a query.
Or: models of knowledge processing and distribution.
How the addition of WolframAlpha as a search engine could complement Google services to create a new market.
Services? Access and structure knowledge. And a new form of knowledge management.
How far would you go in protecting your IPR (intellectual property rights)?
It is a fine balance between control and visibility.
An old lesson from an unusual source- Disney in Italy 
Broadband- universal access: push or pull?
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009This short article (1000 words) has just a purpose: try to see beyond broadband.
It is quite interesting to read every few days articles repeating yesterday’s news, trying to foster a change to generate the news of tomorrow.
What I am referring to? Well, considering the title… Finland’s choice to have universal broadband access by 2015.
Tags: broadband, credibility, education, finland, innovation, news, nokia, pull, push, skype
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