This is a bit of pre-listening for anyone who might be coming to Chris Forrest's WARC thing next week. And it should be of interest to y'all too. It's an interview with Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, authors of Naked Conversations, about 'The Corporation in a Blogging World'.
A quick interview this week, with Dr. Katrina Firlik, neurosurgeon and author of Another Day In The Frontal Lobe, I just like the way she describes the texture and feel of the brain as being soft, like tofu. I never knew that. I kind of thought the brain would be more like meat.
Fretting about some segmentation or market analysis or something. Don't worry about it. Listen instead to Ontology Is Overrated by Clay Shirky.
Bob Sutton is an interesting bloke. He's Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and he's co-written this book; Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense which aims to separate the fads from the useful stuff. He tells good stories and offers common sense in this interview from NPR's Tech Nation.
I hope you've all read Everything Bad Is Good For You, but if you haven't here's a splendid summary of many of the ideas from Mr Steven Berlin Johnson. From Pop!tech 2005.
Bet you all thought I'd forget about this didn't you? Or you didn't care.
But here it is my second pick from the fabulous IT Conversations site. It's not that original a selection but its well worth a listen - Mr Malcolm Gladwell.
Something more non-obvious next week.
(and isn't 'new ideas through your headphones' a good tagline? very good)
Most of you would probably run a mile from a site called IT Conversations but you'd be wrong because a) IT people are always lovely and b) there's a ton of really interesting stuff on there for non-IT people, specifically for all you planners. This is one of my favourites and I think I've posted about it before, somewhere in the mists of time, it's Joseph Chamie, the UN's head demographer making demographics interesting and funny as well as, well, destiny.
More IT Conversations suggestions every Thursday in a regular feature I'm cleverly calling 'IT Conversations on Thursday'.
(And have a go with the Newspaper Clipping Generator)