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Imagination Originally uploaded by zanettco Umair Haque shares these thought on Harvard Business School blog. "Today’s economics are in shock – numerous shocks are rolling across the global economic landscape. "As economics changes, so must strategy. What was “strategic” yesterday is less and less strategic today.

As I listen to all this talk of lack of trust in the banking system, of inflated values ungrounded in any reality, of “opacity”, and of “contaminated” financial instruments, I realise I have heard all this before.

I ran a session for Deirdre and the Chinwag crowd at the Ad:Tech conference yesterday. The theme (which we’ve covered before) was ‘micromedia’: widgets and microblogging and the atomisation of content and app functionality that’s going on out there.

A few months ago I came across a piece by Jeff Nolan, titled Incrementalism and “The New New Thing,” which struck poignantly at a raw nerve. He called attention to the incrementalism gripping Silicon Valley despite the flush amount of capital available for startups.

Five blogs we recommend for Blog Day 2008. Max Gladwell is featured in the Idealist.org Blog Day 2008, where bloggers pay homage to five of their brethren. So we’re paying it forward. If you’re a blogger, we encourage you to participate. This is about connecting people with quality sources of independently produced content.

Four quotes from things I've read in the last 24 hours that I think quite neatly sum up the required redefinition of both media and advertising: A quote from Jeff Jarvis that features in this presentation on the new relationship between media brands and their audiences (thanks to Asi for punting

Four quotes from things I've read in the last 24 hours that I think quite neatly sum up the required redefinition of both media and advertising: A quote from Jeff Jarvis that features in this presentation on the new relationship between media brands and their audiences (thanks to Asi for punting

I’ll be spending some serious time this year working on MobiChange, a social entrepreneurship venture that will leverage mobile social networking for mobilizing social change. No, I don’t know enough about either “mobile social networking” or “mobilizing social change”, but I do know that mobile-based

"How do we begin reorganizing the industrial economy?" Umair Haque asked in his Edge Economy essay "A Manifesto for the Next Industrial Revolution." Haque answers his own question: "By using markets, networks, and communities to alter the way resources are managed: to weave a fabric of incentives for

Two-thousand and eight could mark the year when the world shifts toward sustainability. The writing is on the proverbial wall. This year could be a watershed, one to earmark in the history books as the beginning of a worldwide transformation, specifically the US, where we start the march toward sustainability.