Despite declining ratings for Battlestar Galactica on SciFi Channel, nearly universal critical acclaim along with robust DVD sales have led Universal Home Video to consider greenlighting a Battlestar Galactica direct-to-video telefilm. This is yet another example of how much innovation opportunity exists in television and film. Collapsing distribution windows, alternative distribution channels and enhanced opportunities for audience engagement are among the variables available for innovative content producers.
A report by the General Accounting Office concludes that current patent law discourages drug companies from developing new drugs by allowing them to make excessive profits through minor changes to existing pharmaceuticals. Pharma R&D spending has increased 147% since ’93, but applications for “new molecular entity” drugs, have only increased 7%
I toil away in what is at times a lonely wonkosphere. At the end of my first year as a blogger (ok, 10 months, with an extended absence in July and August), I reflect on what I wrote.
Was I full of crap or did I come up with one or two remarkable ideas, something worthy of notice?
What follows is a list of what I feel are my most significant posts, either for content, style or the quality of the conversations they triggered.
Conclusions:
- I doubt I’m going to be nominated for a blog award anytime soon
- I like to pose a lot of questions and clearly don’t have all the answers
- Finding one’s voice as a writer and as a blog persona takes time
- I feel like I’m on a roll, but just getting warmed up
Upon reflection, these posts still resonate for me, in chronological order:
- [mesh]: The Economics of Ideas
- VC 2.0 & Social Microfinance
- Ontario Budget: Cities, Creativity & Innovation
- A Creative Renaissance?
- ICT Toronto: Getting It Yet?
- Future-Proofing Our Communities
- Gender Bias in Nerdville…er…DemoCamp?
- Open Source Innovation Models
- A Social Mission for a Blogging Consultant?
- Richard Florida on Public Intellectuals
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I recently was browsing Richard Florida’s blog and found this provocative post about the decline of the public intellectual:
…just when we need scholars and the academy to generate the large scale ideas and public debate to facilitate and accelerate this “matching” of institutional arrangements to economic, technological and social trends, academe is focusing far too [few] resources on these issues and problems.
More after the jump…
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An experiment in social giving where you can leave a wish as a comment and a sponsor will donate a dollar to charity. Go leave your comment, blog about it, share it. Good luck to Austin Hill and crew on their experiment.
I love big ideas, remarkable ideas, ideas that can change the world.
In this post, I share a short list of big ideas that I’d like to research and perhaps pursue this year in partnership with like-minded individuals and organizations. (Is this Consulting 2.0?) These aren’t problems I’ll solve in 2007 (or even a lifetime), but are fascinating puzzles worth pursuing right now in theory and in practice. These are the big ideas worth watching, with big implications.
What’s on your list?
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