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I was passed a link to this by a col­league (thanks Simon).

It’s a quadruped robot devel­oped by Boston Dynam­ics. Make sure you get at least half way though when they give it a shove from the side and watch it get its bal­ance back. Scary.

As I’ve been very good lately (although not at post­ing as often as I should), I was let out to attend the Open Rights Group’s event Cre­ative busi­ness in the dig­i­tal era. Over the space of a few hours, I got a good overview of the cur­rent state of play on open intel­lec­tual prop­erty (the whole Cre­ative Com­mons thing) and was treated to exam­ples from some very inter­est­ing peo­ple using CC in anger.

Suw Char­man took us through the var­i­ous types of CC license and some of the main mod­els cre­ative busi­nesses are using to dis­trib­ute their work using them.

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The truth is, for the most part, they don’t know. Quite often they know what they don’t want (lousy ser­vice, crappy prod­ucts etc) but as for what they really want, the stuff that moves the con­ver­sa­tion onwards, that changes behav­iour – they’re not so sure.

Some years back I worked with a com­pany who loved research. They researched every­thing. And they spent a small for­tune doing so. This led to a vari­ety of results:

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• They became very, very slow – every­thing took an age
• They got more and more frus­trated that their cus­tomers couldn’t come up with “the answer”