Year: 2007
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The Secret Life of Fruit and Veg
…is finally revealed here . Thanks to Beancounters for opening my eyes
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Chaos theory
One of my favourite quotes of the past few weeks from Dan Wieden talking about the culture at his agency: "I think it’s important that if you’re going to be innovative, that there’s not a process for everything. Sometimes it seems that if you’re never lost you’re never going to wind up any place new.…
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Tired and emotional
Today I ran a big race. I’ve run a few races before but nothing as big as this one. 20,000 people all running 10K for charity, and it was just great. Fantastic atmosphere and the thing I really loved about it was that most of the charities represented were smaller ones – the kind that…
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The Language of Colour
There are apparently a maximum of 11 basic colours that can be described by any culture or language (try counting them – it seems to be true). But there are a myriad more than 11 ways in which colours are perceived and defined – a phenomenon described in a fascinating interview in New Scientist (sub…
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Go Mika!
This is unbelievable. US news anchor Mika Brzezinski attempting to burn her script live on air on MSNBC’s Morning Joe programme in protest at having to lead on the Paris Hilton story. "It’s not news" she says, before shredding her script on camera. Good for you, gal!
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Mud-for-it!
For all those muso fans that weren’t able to be there (probably a good job if you don’t like mud), NME have posted 18 videos from last weekend’s Glastonbury festival (including exclusive interviews from the likes of Willie Mason, The Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers and The Kooks) on their ‘NME TV’ channel on You Tube.…
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The Gulf of We and Me
We’ve just completed a major research project (sample size of over 3000 adults) into people’s attitudes to environmental issues. One of the fundamental findings which set the scene early on was that of ownership. Or, if you prefer, a great big responsibility gap. 95% of people said that the environment is ‘everyone’s responsibility’ yet only…
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Web trends, on a map
Back in January the guys at Information Architects in Japan produced a map of current webtrends. Threebillion have pointed out that they have just produced a bigger, brighter, shinier updated version. I really like the way they’ve done this. There’s a clickable version here and PDF download here.
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…if it wasn’t for you meddling kids…
Three vaguely related but fascinating pieces here on the changing face of marketing to youth: 1. BusinessWeek on ‘The Children of the Web’ including the Axe ‘Bom Chicka Wah Wah’ story and the challenges of the new global market 2. Mashable on ’12 of the Best Music Social Networks’. Useful if you’re a music fan…