John Craig
Associate
John is Director of The Innovation Exchange, which works to grow innovation from the third sector
- From schools out Today the Hay Group published Schools Out, our report about extended schools and the challenges they pose. The Guardian is carrying a news item about our 'voice vouchers' proposal, which is aimed at encouraging parents to participate in school budgeting and decision-making. While vouchers have been a rallying call for neo-liberals, my comment piece, also in the Guardian, tries to present a very different approach to vouchers, as a way in which parents and schools can work together for the... continue reading on 14th September 2004 Comments (1)
- An 'on-demand' day So my journey into this 'information super highway' continues. Now that I'm a google hack, I know that more people have linked to someone called Joi Ito's homepage than Tony Blair's, and most interestingly, this is what his life is like. continue reading on 29th August 2004 Comments (1)
- Graphing the Kerry bounce As we know, Kerry's bounce after the Democratic Convention was curtailed by the attacks on his war record by the Swift Veterans. The Kerry campaign's latest response is this ad. One good tool for tracking its progress is provided by blogpulse, which allows you to graph through time the number of times certain words are mentioned on a weblog. Here I compare mentions of Kerry and the convention against Kerry and the veterans. continue reading on 25th August 2004
- From the horse's mouth I think I might be starting understand the excitement about new media. There has been much comment this week on the IOC's decision to ban vast majority of athletes from publishing first hand accounts of the Olympics. The reason? To protect valuable and exclusive contracts with broadcasters. This blog [via plastic bag]shows us what we're missing. As well as a great window into the Olympic world for track obsessives, by treading on the big boys' territory it helps me see how different new... continue reading on 23rd August 2004 Comments (1)
- One small step into blogosphere Your newest self-appointed internet enthusiast has an RSS reader, and increasingly, he's not afraid to use it. Good news for anyone interested in blogging and the Kerry campaign, or trendspotting the growing phenomena of limitless bandwidth and the habits it's increasingly driving. continue reading on 20th August 2004 Comments (2)
- Farewell curriculum 2000? Last week, I attended a consulation meeting of the working group onf 14-19 reform, led by Mike Tomlinson. Much of what he said was reminiscent of Beyond Measure, which Demos published in 2003, particularly on connecting qualifications to real and tangible capabilities rather than simply exam grades. However, the event raised a number of questions for me, with still over a month for people to submit their thoughts by email. In particular, how can 'inescapable' core skills be reconciled with... continue reading on 19th July 2004
- bus browsers I admit it. Today I missed my bus stop because I was blearily watching only fools and horses on the bus's television, between, of course, hundreds of adverts. Our London Calling report, published last year, mentioned buses in Tokyo capable of phoning people at the stop they need. However, that I was so insulated from the world around me is scary in itself. These entries to a competition to find ways to connect virtual and public space include a 'bus browser' - a bus which exploits wireless... continue reading on 15th July 2004 Comments (2)
- Politics of Hutton Sorry to be a bit slow (and to add to a slightly incestuous blogging relationship), but I was really interested by this Hutton chat on iwire. Perhaps the increasingly extreme divisions of intellectual labour it discusses are a new way in to our co-production debate. continue reading on 4th February 2004 Comments (1)
- Demosforamerica As some of you will have seen, former Demos intern and contributor to Logged Off? Matthew Bethell has packed his student cases and joined the Deaniacs. Read about his exploits with the Howard Dean campaign team in The Guardian continue reading on 26th January 2004
- Library in your (their?) pocket From today, Peter M shows me, amazon.com greets users with a letter from its CEO, informing them that they can now search by the contents of books, as well as by the title, publisher, etc. Registered users can then view the pages of books on which their search term has been found. A pretty powerful research tool, and finally a solution to that irksome 'I've read it somewhere' feeling. I wonder what this will do to the demand for e-books, and more broadly what the implications of this kind... continue reading on 27th October 2003