Living In The Cloud

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

The migration of our lives into the Cloud has accelerated lately, and it is not at all to the detriment of our physical experiences. We need simplicity, in order to face a complex world, and certainly to me this world appears to getting really complex. The unified access to what ...

On becoming vegan: five good reasons

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

A few days ago I've become a vegan. Vegans are those who do not eat meat like vegetarians, and also eschew animal products, like milk, cheese, eggs. When I tell people they laugh. I laugh as well, since I am a jovial person. But I am pretty serious. Here are five ...

Streaming live in a few hours from the OpenSpime Drinklink

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

I will be streaming live from the OpenSpime Drinklink in four hours (8PM CET, 11AM PST) on the OpenSpime channel on Mogulus.

Why is Creative Commons great? My Flickr reuse stories

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Creative Commons is a framework for easily labeling your creations with licenses that grant automatically rights which are broader than the ones under the traditional 'All rights reserved' copyright model. It doesn't mean that you are giving away or giving up your copyright, but that who wants to use your ...

Transcript of my talk at Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Here is the transcript of my talk at Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon from yesterday, entitled "The New Renaissance". It is fairly long: you can find the full text on Scribd. [13:04] Sophrosyne Stenvaag: Hey everybody, welcome - we'll be starting in a few minutes - still lots of people coming in - ...

Speaking at ‘Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon’: “The New Renaissance”

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Tomorrow I will be speaking at Extropia Core at 1PM PST, invited by Sophrosyne Stenvaag for her 'Saturday Salon' conversations. The title of my speech is going to be "The New Renaissance"

Strategic Marketing Evolves - lecture at the California School of International Management

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Here is the slidecast of my lecture from yesterday at the California School of International Management | View | Upload your own David Orban "Strategic Marketing Evolves - The changing role of brands in the network age" Disintermediation is immediacy. After a hiatus of ten thousand years, during which more and more sophisticated ...

Seminar about strategic marketing and today’s technologies

Friday, February 1st, 2008

I have been invited to hold a lesson at the California School of International Management's course on Strategic Marketing. The lesson will be delivered online, via Skype, and Second Life on the island of Lipari, on Wednesday, February 6, starting 2PM PST (11PM CET). If you would like to attend ...

Your balance in times of extreme change - the opinion of the Dalai Lama

Monday, December 17th, 2007

The changes that we observe around us are accelerating, and in a positive feedback loop the successive cycles feed on the previous ones' effects. The source of these changes is technology, as application of the increased knowledge we have of the world around us. As individuals, and as societies we ...

Open Government Data Principles

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

I spent this weekend in Sebastopol, where I took part in the gathering of 30 open government advocates to develop a set of principles of open government data. The meeting was designed to develop a more robust understanding of why open government data is essential to democracy. The Internet is the ...