Here’s a new book you should read:
The class of the new
“Netizens, elancers, cognitarians, swarm-capitalists, hackers,
produsumers, knowledge workers, pro-ams… these are just a few of the monikers that have been applied to the new social class emerging from the networked workplace.
In this short book, Richard Barbrook presents a collection of quotations from authors who in different […]

In October last year I wrote about a Dutch policy report titled ‘Our creative capacity’. The report outlines the main ambitions of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science with respect to creative industries. At that time the report was only available in Dutch. Meanwhile the report has […]

The creative class has reached the top-level of car builder BMW. The company admits to feel heavily inspired by Florida’s theory of an economic class of people whose economic function is to create new ideas, new technology, and new creative content.
‘Ideas are everything’. That is the major theme in a series of new commercials launched […]

Here is an interesting report of a round table meeting on educating for the creative economy. The meeting was organised by Creative Partnerships, in association with the Smith Institute.
The British are really impassionedly exploring what the private sector expects of the creative skills of young creative workers. They do not limit their focus to the […]