Category: Themes

Putting aside views on the political sense behind senior government members' recent comments on the potential fuel tanker driver strike, it's interesting that the net result seems to have been a real-world incarnation of the classic game theory model, The Prisoner's Dilemma. The game, created in the 1950s by game theorists at RAND, goes something … Continue reading The prisoners’ petrol dilemma

I spent this morning in a great little training session looking at preparing for and being interviewed by the media. One of the things that struck me was how tech companies have been responsible for seismic change in the media industry  in the past two decades. My first experience of Media Training was in the last … Continue reading Media + Technology

There was coverage on this week's Material World programme on Radio 4 about some recently published research from Northwestern University into behaviours seen on reverse auction internet sites. It showed that (from analysis of a mass of publically available data) that just about everyone who takes part in such auctions (where a relatively high-value item … Continue reading Marginal value

In talking yesterday about the challenges of keeping our living room clean, it got me thinking about the incredibly competitive battle that seems to be revolving around control of the screen that, still, most people spend most time in front of - the television. There's been lots of talk from Microsoft over recent years about the … Continue reading The third screen

We've got a relatively new, Samsung LED TV in our living room. It is covered with toddler fingerprints. We can't find anything that seems to remove the smudges and the marks, and it somewhat distracts from the beautiful, bright, HD image. One of two things, though, is going on to cause this greasy destruction: either … Continue reading Touch expectations

I had the great pleasure yesterday of being a member of the interviewing panel at the British Computer Society’s The Graduate event. Aimed to give under graduates and recent graduates a visceral trial of the beast that is known as the recruitment assessment centre, 32 people put themselves through a psychometric test, interview panel, group … Continue reading Standing out