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The No Logo Decade

How the iconic summary of the anti-corporate movement became a handbook for corporate marketing.

Concrete Hallucinations

There was only one language that everyone in the Tower of Babel spoke... that of money.

The End of Economics

Economics in its traditionally enshrined format is an awkward relic of a twisted history.

Common Websense

Rowan has posted a summary of the Trade Me Manifesto, which in turn, was influenced by Google's Corporate Philosophy. Much of it should be plain common sense, except for the fact that so many…

The Committee To Save The World

The story of Obama’s “Inside Man” and the context of the financial crisis, through decades of Washington policy.

Where a carrot is never just a carrot

“If all you can say is ‘fresh from the wholesale market’ then you have to be cheap and open all hours”

The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement

This is the full text of my submission to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding the proposed free trade agreement with the United States. Much of this draws from the precedent set…

Xbox Live and the YouTube for Video Games

Microsoft have announced plans to release a stripped down consumer version of their Xbox 360 development tools, hoping to spawn the emergence of a massive network of homemade game content - the…

All Your Apps Are Belong To Us

The EFF examines the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, and concludes that Apple is acting as a jealous and arbitrary feudal lord.

Flocks of Black Swans

Many programmers and those with ears tuned in to murmurs from the dark side of the finance industry will have heard the recent story involving Goldman Sachs.

How Ideas Emerge as Products

What does time to market really mean? Beyond face value, Time to Twitter sets up a grotesque caricature of the real evolution of Twitter as an idea. Going by the original sketches, Twitter was conceived…

Bubble Spike?

People are starting to wise up to the distortions of bubble math surrounding the recent rush of interest in socially oriented websites steaming ahead under the banner of Web 2.0, but it is interesting…