Year: 2007
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Happy 2008
I’m not big on New Years resolutions but one thing I am going to use this coming year for is to learn lots of new stuff. I guess part of that is about reading more (which I have let slip of late) but a big part of it is also about acquiring new skills –…
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Happy Christmas
Well 2007 has been quite a year. I’d like to thank everyone who’s stopped by, read and commented on this blog, and those who I’ve met up with as a result of it. Thanks for making it so fun. Happy Christmas everyone. Back soon.Image
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The Future of Entertainment
Recently we worked with the Future Foundation (and some other consortium members including Sony, Orange, EMI, Channel 4, The Guardian) on a research project called “Entertainment Futures” which attempted to explore and define the role of leisure, entertainment and all forms of escape in the modern world and what this might mean for people over…
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Christmas Party
We talk a lot about the blurriness of business, so here’s a blurry picture of me at the crimbo do. And yes, that is a christmas hat I’m sporting (of-course)
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Shipping Container Architecture
Rather like this. "Turning the icon of global trade into shelter". For a larger image click hereVia.
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Video Didn’t Kill The Radio Star
Here’s the news. TV didn’t kill cinema. Video didn’t kill the radio star. The internet hasn’t killed print. There’s an interesting debate going on right now over at The Kaiser Edition about the future of agencies. I’m not sure I totally agree with The Kaiser’s central premise that content will kill advertising agencies, and that…
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Google Brain
Intriguing little snippet in this weeks New Scientist about how Google’s search alogorithm may mimic the way that the human brain retrieves information. A study by Psychologist Tom Griffiths at The University of California, Berkeley, tested Pagerank’s methodology (of ranking sites by the number of sites that link to them) against other word-retrieval methodologies and…
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The Top 10 Ways To Come Up With Great Ideas
I’ve seen a few posts of this ilk (for a recent good one go here). They’re never less than interesting but successful ideas generation is a personal thing so they rarely capture all that works for me. So here is what does – my take on the best way to generate excpetional ideas: Commute. By…