Bio, CV & Site Blogs
Alex Burns is an Australian-based convergent/digital media journalist, Foresight practitioner and strategist.
• Curriculum Vitae (June 2008)
• Facebook, LinkedIn (SITCRC), LinkedIn (Disinfo) & Twitter entries (2007).
• Body of Work: links to academic essays, business reports, media articles, old blogs, presentations & research papers - check back for updates & revisions. Latest: Roy Christopher's Summer 2008 Reading List (June 2008).
Blogs
• Futuristics: A "journeyman" blog on the Strategic Foresight field which featured entries & comments from fellow alumni of Swinburne University's Strategic Foresight program, including Josh Floyd, Stephen McGrail, Jose M. Ramos & Chris Stewart. RSS feed here. Latest entry: Strangers On A Train.
• Innovation Services Watch:
Australian independent analysis & commentary on mergers &
acquisitions (M&A), risk, emerging markets & global innovation. RSS
feed here. Latest entry: Damodaran on Strategic Risk.
Earlier Projects
• Disinformation: I was site editor of the US-based subculture site from November 1999 to February 2008 in 3 iterations: the classic "webzine" era, "day's best links" and the transition in October 2007 to a user-moderated publishing version based on the Digg publishing engine. Publishers Weekly named the New York City based firm The Disinformation Company as the "fastest growing US independent publisher in a 6th March 2006 cover-story. RSS feeds for Alex Burns, All, Published and Unpublished stories.