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• Changes afoot.. It is very exciting news that the writer and thinker Richard Reeves was appointed new Demos director yesterday. continue reading 18th July 2008
• Podcast: Hello everybody...Clay Shirky at Demos We had the pleasure of hosting Clay Shirky in the Demos event space this lunchtime. He was in conversation with Demos associate Paul Miller, talking around the ideas thrown up by his book Here Comes Everybody.
  
   We recorded the event, and you can listen in here. continue reading Posted by Peter Bradwell on 15th July 2008 in Demos Podcasts Comments (2)
• Clay Shirky, knife crime and the self policing society Clay Shirky spoke at Demos today (get the podcast here). Unfazed by jet lag and our infamous coffee, Clay answered a flurry of questions including one I managed to sneak in on knife crime. Could social software, I asked, help stop the current spate of knife crimes in London? Before I’m accused of suggesting that Twitter may be the missing tool in the Government’s fight against knife crime, consider the subject of Clay’s new book Here Comes Everybody. In a nutshell it’s about what happens when people are given the tools to do things together. continue reading Posted by Charlie Edwards on 15th July 2008 Comments (2)
• Brazil: The Natural Knowledge-Economy Last Tuesday we launched the most recent pamphlet in the Atlas of Ideas series - Brazil: the natural knowledge-economy - to a full house at the IET. If you couldn't make it, the clever chaps at the IET filmed the whole thing and its now online. You can watch... continue reading Posted by Kirsten Bound on 14th July 2008 in Atlas of Ideas 2.0
• Demos twitters We're igniting our Twitter account.
  
  Follow us! continue reading Posted by Peter Bradwell on 10th July 2008
• Walkabout I just got in the lift up to our office, only to read a notice saying ‘This lift does not serve the first floor’. Has our landlord been reading Nudge? Has everyone??
  continue reading Posted by Duncan O'Leary on 10th July 2008
• The Turban Effect? I posted an article in Comment is free yesterday, which you can read here.  The article draws attention to a new experiment that claims to offer fresh evidence of Islamophobia, albeit with a twist:  that our biases towards Muslims are in some instances unconscious.  The author of the experiment attributes to biased popular and news media and has deemed his findings the Turban Effect.  continue reading Posted by Jonathan Birdwell on 9th July 2008 in From Threat to Opportunity
• Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky is speaking at Demos this coming Monday. Event details here.
  If you haven't read his new book Here Comes Everybody then you should stick it on your list for summer reading.  If you can't make it to the event we'll be podcasting Clay's presentation - you can see other presentations here and here.
  continue reading Posted by Charlie Edwards on 9th July 2008 in Demos Website
• Demos downloads Last year 720,000 pamphlets were downloaded from the Demos website. Our resident stat-o-holic (who will remain nameless) has been viewing the list of downloads and has kindly passed me the list.  The top downloaded pamphlets written by us in the last year are: continue reading Posted by Charlie Edwards on 9th July 2008 in Demos Website
• Fueling debate George Osborne’s idea of a fuel duty stabiliser is an interesting one. (The idea is that as the cost of fuel goes up, the tax goes down and visa versa). Here are a few quick thoughts: continue reading Posted by Duncan O'Leary on 7th July 2008 Comments (2)

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