by JAK | Jul 18, 2008 | culture, music, TED
When I was 11, I had just the most fantastic music teacher. For the next 7 years we worked on all types of music together, one on one, in group classes, in a wind symphonia and also in the school orchestra. Later on we did music tours with a 70 piece orchestra made...
by JAK | Jul 9, 2008 | industry futures
There is a major meltdown of customer service expectations taking place over the way the launch of the new 3G capable iPhones are being mis-managed in New Zealand this week. Go over to iPhone data plan aggregation to read some of the debate (around 50+ comments so far...
by JAK | Jul 5, 2008 | crmthinking, culture, industry futures, TED
TED just released news (June 2008) that there have been more than 50 million downloads of their videos. Ashley Highfield of the BBC mentions that iPlayer has now had more than 75m video downloads (as at May 2008) so clearly we are moving into a new era of accelerated...
by JAK | Jun 7, 2008 | big ideas, industry futures
I was down at the swimming pool this morning when a new T-shirt caught my eye. “Shift happens” said the shirt. (in a manner of speaking 🙂 By serendipitous coincidence I was thinking about the future of education and some recent conversations with educators...
by JAK | May 8, 2008 | big ideas, culture, idealog
Lately I’ve been to some funerals and also lots of births in the form of kids birthday parties. At both ends of the curve there are a number of recurring questions but today really looking at just two. One of the best questions ever is “What are you going...
