Paul Miller

I spent the weekend in Amsterdam for the first Quantified Self Europe conference which follows on from an event in Silicon Valley earlier this year (written up by the FT here). I learned a lot and thought I’d pop some notes up so you can see what’s been going on. First presentation of the weekend [...]

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.

Incredible… [thanks sMary!]

Just the other evening I said to some friends that I’d noticed self-organising systems turning up more and more in popular culture. Well this takes it further. A Swarm of Angels is an attempt to build an open source – or Cinema 2.0 – movie. Has real links to what’s going on over at the [...]

Charlie will be talking about the Pro-Am Revolution at the ICA on 15th May alongside some other very interesting speakers. We’re just about to start spreading the word about a Pro-Ams blog on the way to a book and will start posting more next week.

A little while back, Trevor Butterworth had a good rant about blogging in the FT Magazine. He argued – through a series of interviews with the blogging literati – that blogging has overstayed its welcome and isn’t quite as revolutionary as everybody seems to think it is. He set up his argument like this: “Shouldn’t [...]

The always brilliant Steven Johnson links to a discussion he took part in about the future for Time Magazine called ‘Around the Corner’. One of the ideas that comes up is The Pro-Am Revolution that Charlie and I wrote back in 2004. When they’re talking about the internet Mark Cuban says: “In a world where [...]