Archive for June, 2007



The orchestrated media campaign to undermine support for the logo for the 2012 Olympic Games is a great example of snap judgements being carried away by group think. The logo is absolutely wonderful. It is innovative, positive and capable of supporting an infinite number of variations. Congratulations to the designers, and to Lord Coe for [...]

The e-Horizons Institute had a very successful conference last week, focused on progressing our e-Horizons’ book, tentatively entitled ‘World Wide Science: Promises, Threats and Realities of the Digital Age’. We started with three excellent talks from Professors Denis Noble, Martin Kemp and Jonathan Zittrain (http://www.e-horizons.ox.ac.uk/conference07/agenda.xml). The speakers provided three “e-Research case studies” covering very different [...]