Entries by Ross Dawson

Hanging out with Paul Krugman

I just got sent this nice picture of Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman and myself at the residence of His Highness Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, UAE Minister for Higher Education and Scientific Research. We were invited to his home in the evening for an informal conversation after the MegaTrends conference we both keynoted […]

The Upsides of Downturns at Creative Sydney

This evening I spoke at the Upsides of Downturns event at Creative Sydney. The Creative Sydney festival is intended to celebrate the creative wealth and diversity of the city, which is far deeper than most people appreciate and absolutely world-class. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get to any of the other events, but I heard […]

Phoebe Dawson born today!

Hello to the world from Phoebe Dawson! One more perfect instance of the daily miracle of life… She was born 7 June 2009 at 12:44pm, and weighed 3.85kg (10% more than Leda at birth), looks gorgeous, and is bright and healthy. Both Phoebe and Victoria are doing well. Leda is very excited about baby sister! […]

Internet advertising per capita highest in UK, Denmark, US, Australia, Sweden

Techcrunch has updated its analysis of the valuation of the major social networks globally, based on new usage and advertising spending figures. As last year when I did the same analysis, the most interesting part of this for me is the relative advertising spending per internet user across countries, and the very strong differences in […]

Back in one place and onto new things…

Over the last month – in between all the other things I do – I have delivered five keynotes in San Francisco, Perth, Sydney, and Abu Dhabi, which has meant an average of over 2 hours each day on airplanes. This morning this sequence of keynotes ended, and I now have a bit of a […]