Ein Podcast des DRadio Kultur – zu einer Retrospektive über Dieter Rams in London – u.a. mit Sir Jonathan Ives und dem Schneewittchensarg – das mp3 ist hier. Und bei der Suche nach einem passenden Symbolbild (ja, ja) habe ich u.a. auch das hier gefunden: Braun vs. Apple: Inspiration Or Peculation? von David Grizzard. Jeder bilde sich die eigene Meinung …

Jon Udell speaks to Ledeen and Lewis (blog), co-authors of Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion, reflecting on the rapid and sweeping changes internet technologies bring (mp3). BusinessWeek Columnists Jack & Suzy Welch say that Web Age managers must learn to sift for gems through torrents of data and chatter (“The connected leader”, mp3). Yes, add to this some preparation to tomorrow’s chat with David Weinberger and check out this podcast – originally published by SWR2 Forum in March 2008: “Bildung auf der Datenautobahn – Wie wir Information und Wissen organisieren” (mp3).

BusinessWeek’s John Byrne and Jena McGregor talk about the BusinessWeek-Boston Consulting Group annual innovation ranking, which singles out some smart companies for tough times (mp3). And Bruce Nussbaum chats with BCG’s innovation head Jim Andrew about this year’s list (mp3)

The Smallbiz Podcast takes a look at the life of a freelancer. The podcast includes interviews with speakers at the Going Solo conference – Stephanie Booth, Laura Fitton, Martin Röll, Stowe Boyd, Suw Charman-Anderson and Dennis Howlett – on how to survive as a soloist (mp3).

William Drayton in Social Innovation Conversations talks on the Importance of Being a Changemaker (mp3)

If you’re living on this planet you probably sense that the world is in a time of tremendous change. Ashoka founder William Drayton calls it “Revolution” in his keynote address on the occasion of receiving the Purpose Prize Entrepreneurial Leadership Award. In this talk, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Drayton offers inspiring words about the nature of the times we are in, and how becoming a changemaker is critical for seizing opportunities that are emerging in these unprecedented times.

Yes, be the change you want to see in the world. And check out SWR2′s german language portrait of the d.school at Potsdam (“Zusatzstudium für Querdenker und solche, die es werden wollen”, mp3)

An Europas erster Innovationsschule in Potsdam läuft die Bewerbungsfrist. Deutschland braucht nicht nur mehr Experten – vor allem in den Ingenieur- und Naturwissenschaften. Deutschland braucht auch mehr kreative Experten, die ganz neue Ideen entwickeln. Und auch diese Fähigkeit kann man in gewissem Umfang lernen oder zumindest trainieren. Das jedenfalls ist die Idee hinter einem europaweit einmaligen Studienangebot an der Universität Potsdam.

Design-thinking, interdisciplinary thinking, creativity, innovation processes, and more.

And for an extraordinary piece listen to David Mindell of MIT as he shares his experience with reading Thomas Pynchon‘s wonderful 1973 novel Gravity’s Rainbow (mp3)

The novel, which tells the story of the design, manufacture, and use of the German V-2 rockets in World War II, shows the fruits of a complicated technical endeavor and contains symbols of bigger issues in society.

A group of independent music podcasters says that Apple is thwarting independent music podcasters. The group announced that Apple is not publishing some of the feeds of some of its members’ podcasts at the iTunes Music Store.

Well, music podcasts may hurt music sales at the iTunes music store .. although I am definitely not sure.

Here, (beware german posting) I claimed that

Andererseits bergen Podcasts auch eine gewisse Gefahr der Kannibalisierung wenn Podcast-Downloads (profitablere ?) Musikdownloads verdrängen. Die Gefahr dass Apples iTunes Kunden abwandern und interessante Inhalte “auf eigene Faust” und via andere Aggregatoren (Nimiq, iPodder, etc.) suchen wollen ist dagegen eher gering.

Man sieht hier letztlich auch, dass für Apple der Verkauf von iPods im Vordergrund steht, nicht das Verkaufen von Musik … auch ein Grund warum die Mainstream-Musikindustrie nicht sooo mit Apple zufrieden ist.

Apples business model is not easy … it is a complex mess, as most businesses are. Still, barring independent content (that is btw hosted somewhere else so no costs are there for Apple) smells like censoring to me … or at least trimming the offerings to Apples tastes …

Derrick Oien, President of AMP says that his podcast, which began in the fall of 2004, is among many not yet listed in the iTunes directory. “It appears that Apple is more concerned with molding the community to their immediate commercial needs than with embracing this open community and adhering to an effective long term strategy. We have witnessed the early evolution of podcasting at a break-neck pace; partly because podcasting”s open format rapidly adapts to fit the needs of the community at large. Successful corporations will embrace rather than attempt to control this phenomenon.”

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