Paul Miller

Demos have a great new report out by my friends Celia, Charlie and Pete about the rise of online and mobile video. Here (aptly) is the video introduction to the report.

So yesterday lunchtime was fun. We had a Packed house at Demos to hear Clay do his thing. I just filled him with coffee and then asked a few questions. You can listen to the whole thing here.

Sorry about the short notice, but do come along to hear Clay Shirky talk about his book Here Comes Everybody at Demos on Monday at lunchtime (event starts at 12.30pm). I’ll be playing host and asking him a few tricky questions if I can think of some. I particularly want to ask him about his [...]

The guys at Demos (where I used to work and remain an associate) have put together a great little video explaining the idea of ‘everyday democracy’. I keep on meaning to post about the controversy about party funding. More soon…

The current issue of Wired is a good one. My pick is probably Daniel Pink‘s Manga feature – but I might be biased because it focuses on the effect that pro-ams are having on the industry.

Stop, collaborate and listen. Demos have a new collection out today called The Collaborative State. I’ve got two pieces in there: One on the online response to Hurricane Katrina (co-authored with Niamh) and another about how Government can use online collaborative tools more generally called Flesh, steel and Wikipedia (written with Molly). Simon and Catherine [...]

Demos has a MySpace page. It’s in advance of the launch of Their Space: Education for a Digital Generation by my friends Hannah Green and Celia Hannon. I helped out a bit with the research for the project and it’s been fascinating to work on. Hannah and Celia have done a brilliant job at bringing [...]

The Department is the finest thing on radio for quite some time. Every show in this series has been brilliant but this week’s installment about what to do with science and technology was a particular gem. “You can be pretty sure that a few seconds before the world ends, a scientist somewhere will have uttered [...]

Last Friday was Tom Bentley’s last day in the office at Demos. After seven years as Director (and three as my boss), he’s off to Melbourne, Australia to take up a job as adviser to the Premier there. By the looks of this article in the Sunday Times, I don’t think he’s afraid to burn [...]

Part of the Tomorrow’s People conference was a series of set-piece lectures by John Harris, professor of philosophy at Manchester University. In his final talk he started with a quote from a philosopher I really respect – Douglas Adams. He used Douglas’s story of Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged who became immortal by accident: “To begin [...]