Year: 2007
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Beginners Guide To Giving a Damn
Iain Tait is championing this video produced by Airside and Mother . It has a simple but important message. It’s also funny, watchable and really rather good. So please blog it, visit it on You Tube, link to it, digg it, stumble it, whatever you can do to spread the word…
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Top Digital Trends, Top Start-Ups
OK so here’s a mash-up of my own. The top digital trends ripe for start up cash combined with the top UK start-ups that have already got it… If you’ve got any spare cash, first up is an interesting take here from VC David Biesel on seven "uber-trends" ripe for start-up investment briefly paraphrased here…
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Creativity and Self-Doubt
This is wonderful. Ira Glass, award winning American journalist and broadcaster talking about creativity. I love the bit where he’s ripping apart one of his early broadcasts… Via
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Cityscapes
There are perks to working near to the Tate Modern. It's currently featuring a wonderful exhibition called Global Cities, exploring the changing faces of ten dynamic cities (Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Mumbai, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo) through five ‘thematic lenses’ – speed, size, density, diversity and form – and through…
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“Latchmere’s Got A Wave Machine”
Image and title lyric courtesy the legendary Maccabees Will agencies of the future exist on the strength of their creativity or their technical abilities? Which will clients prioritise as being more important: the deep dive pool of consumer insight or the fancy wave machine of data analytics and optimisation? Back in January the IPA partnered…
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Bubble Stories
This weeks Campaign piece featuring stories and reminiscences of the Dotcom bubble (which, scarily, began almost a decade ago) from the likes of Mark Cridge, Helen Calcraft, and Jerry Fielder got me all nostalgic about my own experience riding the first wave all those years ago. At the time I was working across a whole…
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The Age of Conversation…
…is indeed here. Don’t normally do many shout-outs but this is an exception. An idea originated by Gavin and Drew, featuring 100 thought-provoking chapters written by 100 eminent bloggers who have all contributed free of charge. I’ve just downloaded it and already it looks like there is some great thinking to digest. Proceeds go to…
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How to Create the Perfect Conspiracy Theory
Conspiracy theories pervade modern culture. They are more popular than ever: 9/11, Roswell, Princess Diana, JFK, man on the moon – almost every significant global event has a theory attached to it. The internet has become the perfect vehicle to perpetuate conspiracy culture with its freedom of individual and group expression, ubiquity, and ability to…
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What Does Green Colour Look Like?
Lovely film from the Eye Bank Association of India featured on non-profit blog Houtlust. This was a bronze winner at Cannes and you can see why. The film focuses around the Holi (the Indian festival of colours), and is designed to raise awareness about eye donation to help with corneal disorders which can cause blindness.…