Tag Archives: Generation Y
To work or not to work? That is the question
March 26, 2010… can worm its way into the home life like a houseguest oblivious to your not-so-subtle hints.
Y not work this way?
Working just enough for one’s lifestyle (and keeping one’s work out of the way of one’s lifestyle) should be eminently appealing for the most self-entitled of generations – Generation Y.
The generation Y-ers have, at least until recently, been largely insulated from hard times. Having grown up with more or less constant economic growth, they’ve been the first …
Tags: flexiwork Generation Y work-life balance
flexiwork, Generation Y, work-life balance | 5 CommentsMOG: the day the music gamified
October 6, 2011… record companies are facing diminishing returns, the situation is not much better for the new generation of music companies: Online, Spotify, Pandora, Grooveshark and Last.fm are all struggling to make a honest buck. In such dark times, surely only a crazy person would try launching another free music streaming service…
All you have to do is… Play the game
Executives at MOG clearly disagree. As hip/geeky readers will know, MOG is not really new – the service first appeared …
Down on MyFarm: gamification goes rural
May 26, 2011… the owners of the Wimpole Estate, Cambridgeshire, UK have decided to let the web 2.0 generation have a go for real.
The idea behind MyFarm is simple: invite an online crowd of 10,000 users to run a real farm for a year. Organizers hope the project will “reconnect people with where their food comes from.” Members of the MyFarm community will discuss and vote on every aspect of farming life: what to grow, what to breed, what to buy. Whatever the crowd decides, as long as …
Libya, liberation and the crowd
March 17, 2011… about the so-called “Twitter Factor” in world events. Is social networking the voice of a new generation, or are internet activists just an over-hyped bunch of pretend protesters? Stepping away from this minefield conflicting opinion, I think it is interesting how news agencies, as well as protesters, are now using online media.
If you thought 24 hour-rolling news was the maximum coverage any crisis could get, think again: this is the era of the crisis liveblog. Once upon a time, a …
Grandma knows best: experiments in distributed education
February 24, 2011… will be trendsetters – demonstrating the possibilities of distributed work to the older generation (also, shouldn’t there be a grandfather cloud too? Old men could teach kids how to chop wood and rebuild car engines with a single spanner).
A few English grandmothers clearly won’t solve the education crisis in the developing world. Massive investment is needed, along with stable governments, school buildings and, of course, food and clean water. There are also big, ambitious …
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