Good reminder that innovation doesn’t have to be ground-breaking: the Japanese Kit Kat regional specialities is genius. What is the equivalent disruption in your sector?
Monthly Archive for July, 2010
Lovely quote among many:
And to put it in one bleak sentence, no medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds
Lots of good stuff in Dave’s post on the need for a new focus for digital engagement. My take is compatible, but different. I think digital engagement will become a substrate to “normal” activities. We won’t think about digital or social for much longer: they will just be what we do.
Lots to digest in this summary of evidence on the effects on children of increased home computer availability. Two key points:
- Mathematics and reading test scores drop a little with the growing use of home computers
- Introduction of broadband internet widens racial and socioeconomic development gaps
As the study says, the skills highlighted in reading and mathematics tests may not be as valuable in the workplace as others learned with home computing.
Big question: how to track whether this effect is present as we roll out computing and the internet to all (which I am still fully in favour of, by the way). We must avoid digital engagement that leads to societal exclusion or leads to digital inclusion that is slightly damaging for the included.
Tableau Public looks like a great data analysis option for open data munging. Quick and easy to use and generates web interactive visualisations. Neat.
Good to see that there are reasonably priced apps available (here $15 / $25) that can make real money for their creators. These aren’t micropayments, but they are small enough to be impulse purchases and not really noticed in the wider scheme of things.
Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: iTeleport – 37signals.
We’ll purchase more and more of this price of app, I believe.