ANALYSIS, USA — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has proven to be a visionary leader of California.
Schwarzenegger, a Republican, married to a Kennedy Democrat, will become the nations most senior Republican, as the party moves back to the centre.
There’s an interesting video of Governor Schwarzenegger’s idea for a “Bipartisan Commission Will Address Chronic Budget Problems”. Read the release here.
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Schwarzenegger Action, Ideas.
Interestingly, Obama winning means Schwarzenegger will be the symbolic leader. Vindicated in opposition to Bush on many policies. Bi-partisan. Moderate. Results-driven. Environmentally-focussed. New ideas.
A lot of power …

COMMENT, Australia — You said: I’d come to Australia, but…
A land far far away, Australia…
For all the people I have spoken to since starting the Global Innovation Conversation in April, a lot of you have expressed interest in visiting Australia.
It’s a long flight, but I’m hoping to make it easier for all you eager visitors from USA & Canada so you can do it in comfort. The easy way…
Flying times disable Innovation
Many bright and clever people have expressed to me they’d love to fly to Australia, but it is simply …

COMMENT, San Francisco, USA — Coffee is important. To world trade, yes. But it’s not all money, coffee is also (more importantly) critical to culture.
How many good ideas have been conceived over a cup of coffee?
How many intellectual battles have been fought in a coffee house until the wee hours?
Voltaire, Franklin and Napoleon all frequented the same Parisian coffee house (at different times)… there must be something in that brew.
Napoleon once left his hat for security whilst he fetched money to pay for the check!
The whole of WordCamp over the …

ANALYSIS, San Francisco, USA — Airline Qantas recently announced that internationally in the new airbus A380, first-class passengers will have their own suite and their will be a new dedicated business class domestic lounge areas in Sydney, Melbourne & Canberra for super-premium frequent flyers.
Now Qantas lounges are already among the best in the World, and better than any single American lounge I have been in both internationally or domestically.
They have included at no charge food, wine, decent range of drinks, magazines, free wireless, plenty of work cubicles, leather sofas, big-screen …

NEWS AND ANALYSIS, San Francisco, USA – Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of leading blogging platform WordPress, spoke at WordCamp 2007 today, Sunday July 22, 2007.
For the Agenda of the Matt Mullenweg’s presentation: http://2007.wordcamp.org/schedule/state-of-the-word/
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Innovation: Past and Future of WordPress, according to Matt
Mullenweg …

ANALYSIS, San Francisco – WordCamp 2007 commenced today in San Francisco, at the Swedish American Hall on Market St. This is my second post.Presenter in the second session, was experienced journalist and IT veteran John Dvorak. He was joined by writer from the (sadly rumoured to be defunct) Business 2.0, OM Malik.
Dvorak had two interesting points regarding innovation:
“Bloggers present themselves as bloggers”
“Citizen journalism”
Schedule: http://2007.wordcamp.org/schedule/blogs-vs-journalism/
Both these allude to the innovation zeitgeist as 2thinknowTM define it.
The innovation zeitgesit in blogging is the upcoming professionalism and redesign of the presentation of user …

ANALYSIS, San Francisco — From WordCamp 2007. Podcasting will be a new media, and will grow in revenues. By then it may not be called podcasting.
It may be called something new and snappy, and will be in some ways more like TV/radio.
Marketing, including naming (eg. iPod is sexier than media player and is now the generic name) is important to product development and adoption (see Apple…)
Thanks to Dan Kuykendall, of www.mightyseek.com for an excellent and well balanced presentation of the what, why and how of pod-casting; and despite being first …

NOTICE — Yes I will be attending WordCamp in San Francisco on 21/22 July. I’m also doing some more research into San Francisco, and having a couple of meetings nearby.
As a believer in Wordpress as an emerging force in social networking trends, we will be writing about what we find, and any new innovation whilst there.
If you are in arts, creative professions, design, cultural, web 2.0, social communities or those sort of areas, and in the Bay Area, do let me know. Further, if you’d like to contribute to …

San Francisco is showing innovation leadership beyond technology, it has emerging west coast alternative to US east coast cultural dominance. It also has strong hub ties to Australia and Asia, whereas East Coast has strong hub ties to Europe.
In San Francisco, July 21/22 their will be the Wordpress, Word-Camp. Wordpress will be the next big thing in blogging. All races become two horse races, with a third trailing eventually. Wordpress is well-placed to be horse # 1, 2 or at least 3. I think #1.
Wordpress has innovation leadership in the …