RMM

About two and half years ago I sat in a small dark office in West London with Iain, Mat (the other M) and our accountant Whispering Bern and we signed into existence the first business I have ever owned; RMM. I was filled with excitement at the prospect of being in partnership with two other [...]

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There’s lot to appreciate about Lessig’s latest foray, “Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy” (Bloomsbury 2008); its released under a Creative Commons license, it has its own website, a page of all of the links referred to in the book, a wiki for critiquing, extending and commenting on the book and [...]

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One of the most enjoyable presentations at the recent Btween09 conference in Liverpool was from Jon Drori on how to botch relationships between big (government / public body) entities and small businesses (independent social media agencies perhaps?). Jon is, amongst many other things, the former Head of Commissioning for BBC Online and with the Government’s [...]

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I’ve been kicking around some ideas with Mat recently on the interplay between offline events, online discussion and traditional media coverage. This article in NMA on Glue’s activity with Bombay Sapphire gets closer to illustrating the idea.
The Dusk Bar at Somerset House feeds the online social media activity which is then written about in the [...]

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Arriving early at eConsultancy’s Social Media Showcase I was (easily) distracted by RIBA’s bookshop.
Flicking through the construction porn on the shelves there is a clear theme running through the industry’s periodicals; sustainability is an editorial obsession;
Icon: The Edible City
Architecture + Urbanism: Green Architecture
Dwell: Beyond Green
Domus: Natura design magistra
The implication is clear, the architecture profession is [...]

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