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With founders like these, who needs enemies?
For the third time in the past few months, Martin Jacques (one of Demos' founders) chose to devote part of a Guardian comment piece to an attack on think tanks. Apparently, we "mark the triumph of political adolescence over experience...as a cultural form [our] staff are generally extremely young, utterly lacking in experience, devoid of the wisdom that only life can teach."Hmmm. Thanks for that Martin. A really thought-out critique. Quite apart from the fact that a fair few of our (and...
from : jameswilsdon
8th December 2004
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Cool may be dead but apparently we're 'groovy'
Terence Blacker has written an interesting piece (registration required) in the Independent about Pro-Ams in which he describes Demos as 'one of our groovier think tanks'. I'm not sure what to think.
from : paulmiller
3rd December 2004
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The nerds have noticed
We made the front page of Slashdot (News for Nerds. Stuff that matters) yesterday for The Pro-Am Revolution with the headline 'Open source geeks considered modern heroes'. There are some really interesting (and hilarious) comments in the discussion that follows the article - my favourite has to be the first one: "Of course... this doesn't mean chicks will sleep with geeks now or anything."
from : paulmiller
1st December 2004
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This anorak thing might be getting out of control
Now BBC News Online are joining in...
from : paulmiller
29th November 2004
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The Times gets disorganised
The Times has picked up our Disorganisation report in advance of the launch on Thursday.
from : paulmiller
23rd November 2004
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Waking up to Disorganisation
I was up at some ungodly hour this morning to do an interview on BBC Five Live about our new report Disorganisation (listen again available today - about 25 mins in). You can also come along to the launch event this Thursday.
from : paulmiller
22nd November 2004
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Dangerous minds
The author of 'The Unthinkable', the play about think tanks that is currently running in Sheffield, has a piece in today's Guardian lamenting the demise of think tanks as a 'free space to reinvent society and imagine change.'He raises some legitimate concerns about the accountability of think tanks and their proximity to government and business. But I don't agree that this necessarily stifles independent or radical thinking. The basis of Demos' working model is that engaging with the...
from : jameswilsdon
10th November 2004
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And so to bed...
You might have noticed we have a new report out today called Dream On about sleep. It's been picked up by the BBC among others.
from : paulmiller
1st November 2004
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BBC printer makes an olympic effort...
I feel like I'm turning into the resident Demos TV critic but there was quite a funny two-way on BBC 3's 7 o' clock news last night about our After the Gold Rush report. Eddie Mair (he of Radio 4's BH fame) introduced the piece and then asked the reporter who the new report was by. 'Demos and IPPR' he said before adding 'and they've been doing an awful lot of thinking' picking up an inch-thick wodge of A4 paper, rifling through it and dropping it with a thud on the table. It was then I...
from : paulmiller
26th October 2004
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Open Source Everything
Forgot to mention I had a piece in the Guardian's Spark supplement at the weekend about how far you can take the open source model. Quite a long way I reckon.
from : paulmiller
12th October 2004
