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Paul Miller

Paulmiller
Telephone
+44 (0)20 8404 6994
Email
paul@paulmiller.org
Paul Miller is a Demos associate working with us on innovation, organisational change and democratic renewal.

Paul Miller is a Demos associate working with us on innovation, organisational change and democratic renewal.

He is co-author of a number of Demos reports:

Paul has worked with a wide range of partners from business, the public sector and the not-for-profit sectors. He’s an experienced public speaker and has written feature articles for a wide range of national and international publications including the FT Magazine, the Guardian and Green Futures magazine as well as being interviewed about his work for TV and radio around the world.

Paul was senior researcher at Demos between 2002-5 and before joining Demos,  worked as policy advisor at sustainable development charity Forum for the Future where his publications included Open Policy: threats and opportunities in a wired world (2002). He also worked as a campaigner for the Jubilee 2000 Coalition.

Paul has a degree in Physics from the University of Nottingham and an MProf in Leadership for Sustainable Development from Middlesex University through Forum for the Future's Scholarship Programme.

e-mail: paul [at] paulmiller [dot] org
weblog: www.paulmiller.org

 

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London Calling
Authors
Helen McCarthy, Paul Miller
Publication Date
2003-10-20
Publication Type
Pamphlet

London could turn itself into a wireless city with a new breed of public services which are delivered more efficiently and can respond to the increasing expectations of users in a consumer age.

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The Long Game
Authors
Jake Chapman, Paul Miller, Paul Skidmore
Publication Date
2003-11-26
Publication Type
Pamphlet

Growing complexity means that a new model of regulation will be needed in the years to come.

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Network Logic
Authors
Helen McCarthy, Paul Miller, Paul Skidmore
Publication Date
2004-04-22
Publication Type
Pamphlet

Networks are the most important organisational form of our time, but are often mis-used and misunderstood. In this collection of essays, leading thinkers show how we can unlock their full potential.

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Disablism
Authors
Paul Miller, Sophia Parker
Publication Date
2004-05-26
Publication Type
Pamphlet

A new approach is needed to tackle on-going discrimination against disabled people: one that coherently leverages positive change as it emerges in society, rather than relying on legislation.

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Disorganisation
Authors
Paul Miller, Paul Skidmore
Publication Date
2004-11-25
Publication Type
Pamphlet

Changing expectations of working life have created a new tension at the heart of organisational strategy. Employees want more human organisations with greater autonomy and flexibility.

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The Pro-Am Revolution
Authors
Charles Leadbeater, Paul Miller
Publication Date
2004-11-24
Publication Type
Pamphlet

After the rise of the professional in the 20th century we are now seeing this historic shift reversing in the Pro-Am revolution. Enthusiastic amateurs, pursuing activities to professional standards will have an increasingly important role in our society and economy.

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Better Humans?
Authors
James Wilsdon, Paul Miller
Publication Date
2006-02-08
Publication Type
Pamphlet

From memory pills to designer babies, extended lifespans to GM athletes, enhancement technologies promise (or threaten) to radically change our society. Is ours a cyborg future or will we resist the drive to improve human performance? How should policy makers and the public respond?

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Disablist Britain
Authors
Julia Huber, Paul Miller
Publication Date
2006-03-09
Publication Type
Pamphlet

Bringing together data about ‘disablism’ from a large number of sources in one place for the first time, this report catalogues the ways in which British society discriminates against disabled people and prevents them from living the lives they want to lead.

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Digital Curriculum - Their Space

Hannah Green, Paul Miller, Celia Hannon

The way young people use technology outside school is changing and so are the ways they learn. This project, funded by the NCSL, aims to explore how schools should respond to children's informal learning with digital media such as games consoles, the internet and mobile phones.

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    Paul M

    The Big Down

    The New York Times cover the launch of ETC group's new report on nanotechnology called...

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    Tom's article on immigration

    Tightening border controls may actually decrease national security by encouraging illegal...

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    Onward and Outward

    The space debate continues in the New York Times with Thomas Mallon calling for more ambition...

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    The Power of Larry

    As he admits himself, 'My brand is pessimism'. He warns of the impending doom of...

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    Many minds make light work

    Mark Ward has an interesting article on BBC News Online about using online collaboration...

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    Be careful with your data

    Data can be dangerous. Take this editorial from the online news site Silicon.com that charts...

    Paul M

    Politicians do pop

    It's not just Tony and David reliving their youth. Bill Clinton is getting in on the...

    Paul M

    Mickey isn't happy

    Copyright isn't always seen as the most thrilling policy area, but when you're talking...

    Paul M

    Google's playground

    Nobody can quite beat Google for innovative tools for the web. But they do far more than...

    Paul M

    Watch out for word bursts

    Interesting article about some new research on 'word bursts' in New Scientist. This...

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    The Rottweiler Index

    Just come across this clever bit of decline of social capital moeasurement by Alex MacGillivray...

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    Sweeties?

    Demos are all 'sweeties' according to Steve Bowbrick.

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    Long-term London

    The Strategy Unit are running a study on the long-term issues facing London.Click here for...

    Paul M

    The fat tax is back

    Spotted this story in the Mirror about a report from the Consumers Association recommending...

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    We are what we read

    In advance of World Book Day 2003 on Thursday, I thought it might be interesting to nominate...

    Paul M

    2b or not 2b thats ?

    Continuing the literature theme... BBC News Online are having a bit of fun wondering what...

    Paul M

    Civic Hacking

    James Crabtree of the Work Foundation argues that the political potential of the internet...

    Paul M

    Carbuncle fights back

    I spotted this subtle piece of protest when walking through Birmingham today. There'...

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    Book club with a difference

    You might have come across this before but I like the idea. BookCrossing is a community...

    Paul M

    What will we wrap chips in?

    The Economist have an article this week on the decline of the newspaper industry, where...

    Paul M

    Would you like fries with your WiFi?

    Continuing the fast food theme... McDonalds have announced that they're going to be...

    Paul M

    Surveillance Nation

    MIT (the University not the new cop show on telly) have an excellent magazine called Technology...

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    Nigerian spam

    If you've ever wondered what's behind those weird emails you get from long lost...

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    Amber alerts

    Interesting editorial in the NY Times about the pros and cons of the so-called 'Amber...

    Paul M

    Consulting on Community Companies

    The DTI has opened a consultation on the creation of a new type of company specifically...

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    Texting and Terrorism

    Quite a few papers report on the Government's announcement that it's exploring ways...

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    Second Superpower Semantics

    An interesting linguistic twist has been performed on the web in the last few weeks around...

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    Dishy Deputy PM?

    The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is proposing changes to the planning laws that could...

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    Budget Bingo

    A friend pointed out to me yesterday that tucked away in Gordon Brown's budget this...

    Paul M

    Five Star Knightrider

    This is a brilliant hack and proof, perhaps, that online rating systems aren't all they...

    Paul M

    Big day for big guns

    On the day Charlton Heston steps down from the top job at the National Rifle Association...

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    Cyber Serendipity

    The first thing to note is that any site on the web is, on average, only 19 clicks from...

    Paul M

    Now why didn't I think of that?

    From Silicon.com's excellent weekly round-up comes this news:"If you're still...

    Paul M

    Self-Organising Fireflies

    Fireflies do funny things when you get a load of them together. If you've ever seen...

    Paul M

    Our Final Century?

    Following his excellent contribution to the Demos seminar for Black Sky Thinking Sir Martin...

    Paul M

    Social capital - more heat than light?

    a<a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/earticles/00000006DDB5.htm></a>...

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    Mad Manchester and Sorry Sunderland

    Boho Britain seems to be making a splash today - particularly the creativity index. Manchester...

    Paul M

    Playboy hits the big five zero

    The LA times is running an editorial today hooked on the fact that Playboy Magazine is about...

    Paul M

    Demos is not particularly easy today

    You have to try out Googlism. Basically you type in a name and it searches links to that...

    Paul M

    New word for the day

    I've just learned a new word - heterarchies. Apparently, "Heterarchies are new...

    Paul M

    Ten dollars for every word you write

    In case you haven't noticed, the boys and girls over the road are sponsoring another...

    Paul M

    Going Digital

    I went along yesterday to the BBC launch of some new figures suggesting Digital Terrestrial...

    Paul M

    Governing by learning

    Geoff Mulgan has an interesting piece on openDemocracy that I urge you all to read. It...

    Paul M

    Spot the difference competition

    Take a look at the cabinet from 1997 and compare it to the 2003 version. I can only spot...

    Paul M

    Mobilisation

    The launch of Mobilisation last night was a great success. I'll try and post a real...

    Paul M

    The honorable member for cyberspace....

    Pretty much every MP now has the obligatory website (the award for cheesiest has to go to...

    Paul M

    Model town?

    Not sure whether it cuts the mustard under our definition but Bourneville in Birmingham...

    Paul M

    Are you looking at me?

    A lot of people are getting hot under the collar about moves afoot in the US for 'total...

    Paul M

    The Karass and the Granfalloon

    Just spotted this piece by Steven Johnson (author of Emergence) about software that you...

    Paul M

    A mercenary business

    The FT has an interesting story about the company who've offered to go in and keep peace...

    Paul M

    Where to WiFi?

    Following G2's lead working from Brighton beach, Demos are up for a day working away...

    Paul M

    G and T with Patrick

    Melissa and Nic went to meet the bastion of English astronomy on Tuesday, Sir Patrick Moore...

    Paul M

    Being complex

    This week I have mainly been doing complexity. Lots of it. I'm at a Complexity in Social...

    Paul M

    News Flash

    London's first Flash Mob is going to take place on Thursday... find out more here.

    Paul M

    Hypochondriacs anonymous?

    The New Yorker (via aldaily.com) has a story about the rising costs of hypochondria on the...

    Paul M

    Six degrees of email

    There's an article in Scientific American about Duncan Watts et al's Small World...

    Paul M

    Canada Calling

    The Demos delegation to Canada reached Ottwa on Friday for a day trip to the administrative...

    Paul M

    Taking the bait

    It�s true that we do talk a lot about complexity, systems and networks and I can...

    Paul M

    Voting by proxy (server)

    Some bright spark has been working on a piece of software that tracks all your online preferences...

    Paul M

    Texting to a higher plane

    [from John Thackara's excellent Doors of Perception newsletter]"Connecting on a...

    Paul M

    The Singularity is Near (ish)

    James and I are at the Accelerating Change 2003 Conference being held at Stanford University...

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    Day 2 of the Singularity

    His thesis is that as networks become more connected and the cost of transaction comes down...

    Paul M

    ET and God

    Here's a question for the Demos astronauts: Could earthly religions survive the discovery...

    Paul M

    Will Self-Organises

    Following on from our debate in the Greenhouse, Will Davies of the Work Foundation has a...

    Paul M

    Demos on a Disc

    If you were at Labour Party Conference you might have a had a surprise waiting for you in...

    Paul M

    Open Source Democracy

    If you've had a look at our home page you'll know that Douglas Rushkoff has written...

    Paul M

    The eagle has landed

    So Douglas Rushkoff has arrived to, 'try and tickle us into thinking a bit'. We...

    Paul M

    Upwardly Mobile

    Next week we'll mainly be doing mobile phones. We'll be launching London Calling...

    Paul M

    Government use of complexity in the US

    I confess I haven't read all of it yet but this looks interesting - a survey of the...

    Paul M

    Communication in the 21st Century

    A couple of weeks ago, Will Davies of iSociety at the Work Foundation and I did a double...

    Paul M

    Interview with a censor

    Just come across a really interesting interview with Norwegian film censor Elisabeth Staksrud...

    Paul M

    BBC Eyesores

    I love those message board things you get on BBC News Online. There's a brilliant one...

    Paul M

    Postmodern Praise

    Robert Cooper's new book gets a pretty good review in the Statesman this week. The book...

    Paul M

    Religion and Riches

    Apparently religion makes you richer, well if you're a country anyway. There's an...

    Paul M

    Working laterally

    There's something new growing in the Greenhouse. As a bit of an experiment we've...

    Paul M

    Gender spending

    Helen's far too modest to point out that she has a really good piece on GuardianUnlimited...

    Paul M

    Northern Soul

    One of two Demos reports out this week, Northern Soul got some coverage yesterday in the...

    Paul M

    Beagle hasn't quite landed

    Looks like Beagle 2 might not quite have made it to Mars in one piece - here's an audio...

    Paul M

    Seminar Magazine

    This looks good... an 'in-depth magazine' looking at politics and culture from an...

    Paul M

    Party poopers

    Tom and I have written the cover story of tomorrow's FT Magazine about the fall and...

    Paul M

    Yet another review of the year... from Google

    Just spotted (via James Crabtree) that Google have done their 2003 Zeitgeist report. There...

    Paul M

    Public Service Reform Summit

    The Guardian are hosting a summit later this month on public service reform which looks...

    Paul M

    Eno knows

    Talking of Brian Eno... here's the transcript of a lecture he gave in November last...

    Paul M

    I think this is complimentary

    I've only just noticed we got a mention on Guardian Unlimited at the beginning of December...

    Paul M

    Davos diary

    Simon Zadek has been running a really interesting diary from the World Economic Forum in...

    Paul M

    A large small project

    Think small, very small. That's what we'll be doing for the next two years as Demos...

    Paul M

    I just love your accent

    The Hack � 30/1/2004 American politics with a British Accent, and vice versa�...

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    Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me...

    Doesn't time fly... the Demos Greenhouse is two years old today.If you're a regular...

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    We've been Wikied

    If you haven't seen the excellent Wikipedia yet, you should take a look. It's basically...

    Paul M

    Minority Report

    We've just started work on a new project on disability which at the moment is codenamed...

    Paul M

    Demon Headmasters?

    I've always wondered what headteachers are like outside school and this week a few...

    Paul M

    Chandeliers, powerpoint and fish that glow in the dark

    Some of the science presentations have been mindblowing. People have been telling us how...

    Paul M

    Swamps and nanobots

    The star turns here have been by the �nano-visionaries�. First up was Eric...

    Paul M

    Towards a new politics of disability

    The PropositionsONE - The most meaningful indicator of whether progress is being made in...

    Paul M

    Let me out of here

    Urgh... The Register has found another good reason for working from home.

    Paul M

    The rise of network campaigning

    Here's a sneak preview chapter of the Network Logic collection we'll be putting...

    Paul M

    The Self-creating Society

    As Tom's a bit jet-lagged I thought I'd alert the world to the essay he's got...

    Paul M

    Yer What?

    Gavin Esler confronts a problem I've been mulling over for a while in today's Newsnight...

    Paul M

    News Map

    [via Blackbelt Jones]This is brilliant - a visual representation of Google News. Have a...

    Paul M

    Network Logic

    Our new collection, Network Logic, is now available. We've put the whole thing up but...

    Paul M

    Lower Personalisation

    This might be taking personalisation too far.

    Paul M

    Mind Wide Open

    His trick as an author is to spend time with the people at the cutting edge of the science...

    Paul M

    New Cities for Old

    Demos Associate Richard Florida was a contributor to a really interesting edition of BBC...

    Paul M

    Demos fails to predict unintended consequence shock

    Right, we've had a complaint. Not exactly a formal one (it was made in the pub last...

    Paul M

    Wi-Fly

    Here's one for the globe-trotters among you - Lufthansa have installed Wi-fi internet...

    Paul M

    Jake 2.0

    Every now and then Demos pamphlets strike a chord in ways we can't predict. System Failure...

    Paul M

    Fifty is the new thirty

    There's a piece in the Observer today which mentions our Silver Service project due...

    Paul M

    The dangers of the rear view mirror

    'A black swan is an outlier, an event that lies beyond the realm of normal expectations...

    Paul M

    Disablism

    Disablism - a new Demos report - is out today to coincide with the launch of Scope's...

    Paul M

    Congratulations to the BBC!

    The BBC has announced that it is definitely going ahead with the Creative Archive project...

    Paul M

    Geeks and Wonks unite

    Tom Steinberg (of MySociety fame) emails to say there are two political sessions at this...

    Paul M

    Truce Calling

    I'm sick of the football already, for obvious reasons, so bring on the next major sporting...

    Paul M

    Always ask the audience

    His new book The Wisdom of Crowds: why the many are smarter than the few is well worth a...

    Paul M

    Is nano the next GM?

    Nanotechnology - the ability to manipulate matter at the atomic scale - is the next big...

    Paul M

    The See-through Society

    The See-through Society:Openness and the future of the internet Governments like to think...

    Paul M

    Top Demos Downloads - May 2004

    It's always interesting to watch our webstats and see what people are downloading from...

    Paul M

    Demos attempt vote-rigging scandal

    Prospect are running one of those list things (Greatest Britons, The Big Read, Sexiest Movie...

    Paul M

    We interrupt this service...

    As Duncan mentioned, we're in the process of moving office so apolgies if we're...

    Paul M

    Top Demos Downloads - June 2004

    The top five Demos downloads for June 2004 were:1. Disablism - Paul Miller, Sophia Parker...

    Paul M

    'I's Everywhere

    This month's Wired is all about robots. The special occasion is the release of the...

    Paul M

    What one really said...

    Bit of follow-on coverage today for a piece in the Independent on Sunday by Prince Charles...

    Paul M

    The blogging regulator

    Michael Powell, The Chairman of the FCC (equivalent to our Ofcom), has started blogging...

    Paul M

    Disablism Summit

    Perfection revisited?Paul Miller, 15 July 2004, Scope Disablism Summit, LondonAbout this...

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    George W(eblog) Bush

    The idea of politicians becoming bloggers takes another twist...

    Paul M

    Blogging the party conferences

    So James Crabtree of Vox Politics is trying to get some blogging going at the party conferences...

    Paul M

    Extreme Democracy

    There's a new book out (which has also been published as a weblog) called Extreme Democracy...

    Paul M

    God and going home early

    Niall Ferguson reckons that the difference in working hours between the US and Europe is...

    Paul M

    Rushkoff interview

    Douglas Rushkoff has just done an interview which mainly focuses on his Open Source Democracy...

    Paul M

    Left or Right Brain?

    Steven Johnson had a piece in the (nearly always) excellent NY Times Magazine about whether...

    Paul M

    Profile of a player

    Pat Kane - author of the forthcoming Play Ethic and Demos Associate - is profiled in the...

    Paul M

    Moving on...

    Wired has a really interesting piece by Gary Wolf about the history of Moveon.org and the...

    Paul M

    Blogging MPs are so last year

    Now it's about blogging candidates. The Guardian has a story about Jody Dunn - the Lib...

    Paul M

    Swing against postal voting

    So the Electoral Commission has passed judgement on all-postal votes and they're not...

    Paul M

    51 Gorillas

    The Economist [via Arts & Letters Daily] has some wisdom about business books..."...

    Paul M

    Civitas go back to school

    Our former office 'buddies' Civitas (we were based on the same floor in our old...

    Paul M

    First Greenhouse Guest Blogger

    So it sounds like wifi might be a gogo for Labour Party Conference at the end of the month...

    Paul M

    timeline+25

    Ars Electronica is held in Linz, Austria each year and is the oldest and largest art and...

    Paul M

    Life's a beach

    Interest in Charlie Leadbeater's 'Beach Party' article is still strong. It made...

    Paul M

    Water Buses

    I've just noticed that the buses on the route (RV1) that goes past our office near London...

    Paul M

    Another world is... coming to London

    By the way, you can use those fuel cell buses for free for a weekend if you're one of...

    Paul M

    Trade unions of the future?

    As part of our project on The Future of Organisations we're looking for an international...

    Paul M

    Cities and schools

    David Miliband and Tristram Hunt (who was once a Demos intern) have a piece in the Guardian...

    Paul M

    In case of emergency - look on Moon

    The European Space Agency's chief scientist is suggesting that a store be built on the...

    Paul M

    After the Party - 28/09/04

    We'll be doing an event at the fringe of Labour Party conference called After the Party...

    Paul M

    Community Interest Companies

    Will Davies has a piece in this week's New Statesman about 'Community Interest Companies...

    Paul M

    Where's Watson?

    Tom Watson disappeared from the blogosphere for a while following his promotion in the reshuffle...

    Paul M

    Demos email down

    Our email is down at the moment so if you're trying to get hold of Demos staff you...

    Paul M

    Geek gag

    This made me laugh. Briefly.

    Paul M

    Live fast, die old

    Good piece in BBC News Online's Magazine hooked on our Eternal Youths report.There are...

    Paul M

    Who Cares? ICA Event

    A few Demos Associates are in action at the ICA tomorrow (21 Sept) evening..."We are...

    Paul M

    Big Ben and all that

    Tom's article on the future of national identity was the main event in the Guardian...

    Paul M

    Guest Blogger Number 3

    The quest for interesting people to blog the party conferences continues apace. The next...

    Paul M

    Guest blogger number 4

    The Greenhouse is going to be the place to be next week... you won't even need to go...

    Paul M

    Odeon Schmodeon

    So Matthew Somerville has been forced to take down his accessible version of the Odeon Cinemas...

    Paul M

    Boris reporting for duty

    It turns out that one suggestion for guest Greenhouse blogger has gone and set one up all...

    Paul M

    The World Speaks (to America)

    This is interesting - The World Speaks, a website bringing together a diverse set of voices...

    Paul M

    The full guest bloggers line-up

    Catherine Atkinson is the final guest blogger to join the Greenhouse for Labour Party conference...

    Paul M

    Blair on stage

    So Tony Blair is on stage at the moment and I'm sat in the basement of ippr's...

    Paul M

    Blair finished

    His speech rather than his career I mean... two protests (one on the war and one pro hunting...

    Paul M

    Apparently we're Mekons

    I'd heard the rumours all day but have only just managed to listen to the piece on The...

    Paul M

    After 'After the Party'

    It was a different audience for us ' a mix of activists, journalists, party organisers...

    Paul M

    Would you want to work at a blog like this?

    The New York Times has an interesting article (registration required) about the relationship...

    Paul M

    A very big thank you...

    ... to all our guest bloggers for party conference season. We didn't manage to cover...

    Paul M

    The Opportunity Society

    Tony Blair showed up at an event hosted by Demos and IPPR this morning. This is what he...

    Paul M

    Open Source Everything

    Forgot to mention I had a piece in the Guardian's Spark supplement at the weekend about...

    Paul M

    When I'm 124

    Here's a strange interview with inventor extrodinaire Ray Kurzweil about the future...

    Paul M

    Storm in a teacup?

    The MoD has got itself into hot water over an edict to staff telling them to log every hot...

    Paul M

    The Play Ethic

    We had a great session here yesterday evening with Demos associates Pat Kane and Charlie...

    Paul M

    John v John

    Really interesting bit of radio here as Jenni Murray interviews John Lloyd and John Humphrys...

    Paul M

    The Power of Nightmares

    I'm usually fairly dismissive of 'serious' TV but every now and then something...

    Paul M

    Letters to (and from) America

    The Guardian have been pairing up readers with voters' addresses in Clark County, Ohio...

    Paul M

    BBC printer makes an olympic effort...

    I feel like I'm turning into the resident Demos TV critic but there was quite a funny...

    Paul M

    Science of Small Things Event - 23 November

    We're doing a joint event on Tue 23 Nov at 19:00 with the ICA on nanotech which you...

    Paul M

    Pro-Ams launch event - 30th November

    We'll be launching our Pro-Am Revolution report on 30th November here at Demos, 5.30...

    Paul M

    Open source article

    Remember that article I wrote about how far you could take the open source model? Well now...

    Paul M

    And so to bed...

    You might have noticed we have a new report out today called Dream On about sleep. It'...

    Paul M

    Disorganisation launch event - 25 November

    We'll be launching our new report about the future of organisations on the morning of...

    Paul M

    America decides... sort of

    So America is still in limbo although it's looking like Bush has it. I stayed up and...

    Paul M

    The Cat in the (political) Hat

    Here's an interesting piece about the relationship between the politics and writing...

    Paul M

    An Innocent Thing

    That seriously fruity organisation Innocent Drinks won the Best Employer category at last...

    Paul M

    RSS and government

    Peter MacLeod emails in to point to a Wired News story about government agencies using RSS...

    Paul M

    Waking up to Disorganisation

    I was up at some ungodly hour this morning to do an interview on BBC Five Live about our...

    Paul M

    The Times gets disorganised

    The Times has picked up our Disorganisation report in advance of the launch on Thursday.

    Paul M

    The wonderful Wired

    Wired Magazine is firing on all cylinders this month with a load of interesting articles...

    Paul M

    Small was beautiful

    Our little (sorry) event with the ICA on nanotechnology on Tuesday went really well. Especially...

    Paul M

    Disorganisation launch

    Disorganisation was launched this morning at the very zen Energy Clinic in London. Many...

    Paul M

    You are feeling very sleepy

    If our sleep pamphlet got you interested in your circadian rhythms and all that, here'...

    Paul M

    Meet the Pro-Ams

    Our new report The Pro-Am Revolution is out today and has been picked up by The Independent...

    Paul M

    This anorak thing might be getting out of control

    Now BBC News Online are joining in...

    Paul M

    The nerds have noticed

    We made the front page of Slashdot (News for Nerds. Stuff that matters) yesterday for The...

    Paul M

    ChangeThis version of Pro-Ams

    The team at ChangeThis have repackaged our Pro-Am Revolution report and made it look very...

    Paul M

    Cool may be dead but apparently we're 'groovy'

    Terence Blacker has written an interesting piece (registration required) in the Independent...

    Paul M

    Comments out of action

    As many of you have pointed out, we have a comment spam problem. I'm afraid trying to...

    Paul M

    Catching up on my blogs

    Back from a week off and I find the Mekons thing rumbles on and on, that our idea for Street...

    Paul M

    What to buy Dilbert for Christmas

    Maybe we should get a set of these to remind us how nice our office is. Even if it does...

    Paul M

    Finally a '100 best' list that's actually useful

    The Guardian's Online section has the 100 most useful websites today. Can't believe...

    Paul M

    Mary Whitehouse gets organised

    Complaining about TV indecency is getting organised in the US. Apparently, the FCC received...

    Paul M

    Putting poverty into the history books - Geoff Mulgan

    Britain in 1904 looks both very far away and very near: far away in that it was a country...

    Paul M

    Grey goo and all that

    See-through Science was covered quite a lot in Radio 4's Analysis last week about nanotechnology...

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    The Demos Collective Brain as of January 2005

    As well as Demos Flickr, we've been playing around with a piece of social software called...

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    A Pro-Am of Note

    Glenn Reynolds (aka Instapundit) came across our Pro-Am Revolution yesterday. He was directed...

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    Wisdom in the blink of a crowd's eye?

    Or something like that... Slate have an interesting discussion between two of the best business...

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    The lab is no more

    Media Lab Europe is set to close reports The Register. Based just near the Guinness Brewery...

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    Government launches disability strategy

    Number 10 have just announced a new 20 year (and 212 page long) strategy for improving the...

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    Mastering sustainability

    Our friends over at Forum for the Future run a Masters Programme in Leadership for Sustainable...

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    More on 20 year disability strategy

    Media coverage of the launch of the Government's disability strategy yesterday was pretty...

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    More on John Lloyd event

    What the media are doing to our politicsDemos, London, 18th January 2005Speakers:John Lloyd...

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    There goes my invitation to Davos

    It's Davos week when the stars of international policy and business hop in their choppers...

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    Never underestimate a Doozer

    Fraggle Rock is coming back! And it's all thanks to a campaign launched by an East London...

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    Open Regulation

    Interesting bit in Technology Review about regulation of GM crops in New Zealand. Relevant...

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    International Internet-Free Day

    Genius. The Global Ideas blog is promoting the idea of an international Internet-Free Day...

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    Mind games

    Edge runs an interview with Philip Zimbardo the social psychologist who ran the Stanford...

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    Is Digby Bitter?

    (Sir) Digby Jones is quoted in the Guardian today saying that NGOs have become too powerful...

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    City Salon - 17th February

    Melissa has organised a series of salons as part of our Cities programme. The first one...

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    You aren't feeling very sleepy

    Did anybody else see that programme on BBC 1 about sleep last night? It was a sort of self...

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    See-through Science gets ChangeThis treatment

    The guys over at ChangeThis have taken our See-through Science report and turned it into...

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    Jay Rosen on Pro-Ams

    I've just noticed that Jay Rosen, associate professor of journalism at NYU, has written...

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    Don't be needy, be succeedy...

    The wonderful Neil Mullarkey is going to be on BBC 3 at 9.30pm on Tuesday 15 February 2005...

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    WriteToThem

    Another great MySociety project sees the light of day - WriteToThem is an update of FaxYourMP...

    Paul M

    Tech help needed

    We've got a problem. Our wiki is broken and we can't work out why. Can anybody help...

    Paul M

    Parliamentary monitor

    Tom Steinberg emails in to tell us about a new feature on TheyWorkForYou. Not only can you...

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    Disorganisation in The Times

    The Times ran a piece about our Disorganisation report yesterday. Apparently there's...

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    Taking Control

    There's a piece in today's Society Guardian about the excellent In Control pilot...

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    Basketball vs Society

    Here's a neat piece by Bertell Ollman, professor of Politics at NYU, playfully exploring...

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    Seating arrangements

    I've been flying around quite a lot recently - wish I'd come across this beforehand...

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    Clouds gathering in the green movement?

    Last year, prominent environmentalist and originator of the Gaia hypothesis, James Lovelock...

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    Knowing your unknowns

    Intriguing piece in Scientific American by three RAND bods about a new approach they'...

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    Ratings Revolution

    This weekend's edition of the NYT Magazine ran a long and fascinating article by Jon...

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    Oh for a tub of lard

    That left Jackie Ashley chairing a panel of Sunder, former LSE Director Tony Giddens and...

    Paul M

    Pat Kane's new gig

    Pat Kane, author of the Play Ethic, formerly one half of Hue and Cry and incidently, a Demos...

    Paul M

    Pollsters or punters?

    The Conservative party aren't doing too well according to recent polls. But being a...

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    Do you want source with that?

    Our long fascination with open source continues with a new report out tomorrow, jointly...

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    We've been slashdotted...

    Wide Open caught the eye of Slashdot which is great... except it means our webserver might...

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    Everything Bad Is Good For You

    Steven Johnson (who wrote Emergence and Mind Wide Open) has a new book coming out at the...

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    Suburbia fights back... and we're on their side

    Our Battle for Suburbia event this evening has caught the eye of BBC News Online's Magazine...

    Paul M

    Are the best places to work 'disorganised'?

    The FT ran a special supplement yesterday on the UK's best workplaces which confirms...

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    Milk and no sugar thanks

    Another break from the election - what happens when you mix an online reputation system...

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    Pub quiz politics

    Now back to the election. This quiz tests your knowledge of the facts and figures the contest...

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    Are you drinking what we're drinking?

    The Guardian election blog has cottoned on to the idea of election night drinking games...

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    What's in a name?

    The debate about the name of the DTI has all been quite amusing. The PM announced that the...

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    Gladwell on Johnson

    Malcolm Gladwell (he of Tipping Pointand Blink fame) reviews Steven Johnson's new book...

    Paul M

    Grand Theft Auto: Hampstead

    The President of the computer games industry body in the US says that games need to broaden...

    Paul M

    Everyday superheroes

    Another project we've just started working on is Better Humans: the politics of human...

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    Everything Emergent Is Good For You

    Steven Johnson gave a great talk here last night. He mixed the ideas from two of his books...

    Paul M

    My Other Life - Pro-ams photo exhibition

    Charlie spotted in his copy of The Southwark News that there's an exhibition opening...

    Paul M

    Independent Living

    We launched a new report called Independent Living yesterday. It was covered by the BBC...

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    Demos Mauritius?

    Everyday Democracy is travelling. As well as being covered in today's Independent, Nicholas...

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    Peaking interest

    More and more people seem to be talking about 'peak oil'. It's the idea that...

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    Workaday World

    Former TGWU boss (and speaker at the launch of Disorganisation) Bill Morris has an interesting...

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    Everyday Democracy on the blogs

    A couple of interesting blog postings have appeared about Everyday Democracy by two people...

    Paul M

    Pro-Ams on BBC Radio Four

    BBC Radio Four's Shop Talk has done an entire programme about The Pro-Am Revolution...

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    Steven Johnson on the Daily Show

    Steven Johnson (who came and gave a really good talk at Demos a couple of weeks ago) had...

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    Laoy dat I'm going for a cotch

    Friday fun - the BBC seem to be catching up with a language that members of parliament have...

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    Using Users

    Charlie Leadbeater had a big piece called Design Your Own Revolution in yesterday's...

    Paul M

    Prime Minister's Questions

    Tony Blair is doing a web chat thing tomorrow evening on the Downing Street website. I don...

    Paul M

    The small world of big brother

    I was interviewed about pro-am 'nerds' on BBC Five Live last night. Apparently a...

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    The morning after

    London is eerily quiet but reassuringly calm today. Transport is, in the main, up and running...

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    Cheesy

    Google have launched a special version of Google Maps to commemorate the first manned moon...

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    Design-it-yourself

    I missed this last week but a good piece on BBC News about the TED Global conference including...

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    Dinner invitation

    The POWER inquiry seems to be ramping up now. If you haven't come across it, POWER is...

    Paul M

    Pro-am Proms

    David Honigmann cites our Pro-Am Revolution report in today's FT as he writes about...

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    Why Britain Is Great

    Former Demos intern Tristram Hunt (not a lot of people know that) has the cover story of...

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    Demos Dublin bound

    Jack, James, Molly, Sam and me (what is the collective noun for Demos team members?) are...

    Paul M

    How many economic sociologists does it take to change a lightbulb?

    I don't know the answer, but apparently sociologists tackling economic problems are...

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    Interestingness

    Regular readers will know that Demos has a Flickr account and that we occasionally post...

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    Science festivities

    The sun is shining in Dublin. Trinity College is full of a strange mixture of scientists...

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    Dublin's Digital Hub

    The site is in an area called the Liberties just on the edge of Dublin city centre on what...

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    Secrets Laid Bare

    Sean Dodson mentions our Wide Open pamphlet in a great piece in today's Guardian.

    Paul M

    Vlogging Norway

    It's the Norwegian election today. BBC News ran an interesting story over the weekend...

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    Debating the public value of science

    Richard Jones, a nanoscientist at Sheffield University and author of Soft Machines, has...

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    Blogging the conferences

    New Statesman are running a blog during the party conference season.

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    Have a cow

    Pick Me Up (which Charlie and me help out with) has a great story this week about a group...

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    A quieter, more sober affair

    I'm in Brighton at Labour Party Conference and one thing strikes me: it's a heck...

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    Famous clever people

    I can't quite see Jimmy Carr presenting this one on Channel Four on a Sunday night but...

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    The Demos Pamphlet Economy

    I was just playing around with Amazon when I realised that there's a second hand market...

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    Paul Ginsborg at Demos - 10 November 2005

    We're delighted that Paul Ginsborg will be coming along to Demos on 10 November 2005...

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    The audience snaps back

    Mark Simpkins was in the audience for our Atlas of Ideas launch yesterday and has popped...

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    Leadbeater: the movie

    I've just used Blinkx for the first time - a search engine that searches for audio and...

    Paul M

    ICA: The cyborg and the city - Fri 4 November, 7pm

    James Harkin mails in to mention an interesting sounding event he's running at the ICA...

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    Ssssshhhh!

    I started off with a couple of stats about how the knowledge based economy has grown. The...

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    National Competitiveness Summit - 25th Oct

    Tom's speaking at The National Competitiveness Summit tomorrow up in Manchester. They...

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    $1000 per idea

    Tom Steinberg emails in about a discussion on the TED blog about MySociety's excellent...

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    Interuption Science

    Strange things are happening in the Demos office today. Our email is bust so people are...

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    Software and the smell of coffee

    While Kirsten and the gang are checking out the prospects for software in India, I'm...

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    Making Digital Durable

    At the end of the middle pier is a lecture hall that seats about 300 people. In the lobby...

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    An organisation is born

    The mighty mySociety achieved another first today when a PledgeBank pledge reached its target...

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    Change your name for a (twenty) fiver

    Just spotted in the end section of this week's Pick Me Up: you can change your name...

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    Sauna trouble

    It's not uncommon for business men to drop into the big public saunas before meetings...

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    Demos on del.icio.us

    It's interesting to see how people are tagging the Demos website on the social bookmarking...