Year: 2007

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    Fighting Crime With Ones and Zeros

    This video is not new but I saw it for the first time yesterday (in a cab of all places) and kind of liked it. It’s an IBM promo done by OgilvyOne about how data architecture and management have transformed how the NYPD fight crime. It was, according to the Commissioner, a "classic case of…

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    Kerry’s Mix

    My friend (and aspiring DJ) Kerry has put together a mix which you can download as a podcast here. She describes it as "A musical journey from ska to disco with a side order of soul". Says Kerry: "I cracked open a bottle of beaujolais and unleashed myself upon the decks last night. The mix…

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    The Reality of Virtual Worlds

    For anyone doubting that virtual worlds are here to stay (and that the internet is ‘evolving into three dimensions’), read this excellent piece by Victor Keegan in The Guardian, which includes these nine rather astounding factoids: Entropia Universe, the Swedish virtual world had a turnover of $365m last year and is about to be floated…

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    Stop The War

    Advertising and media planning is still littered with military analogies. We ‘launch campaigns’, ‘battle’ for attention. We talk about ‘target’ audiences, ‘hits’, ‘strike rates’, ‘impacts’. We base our thinking on ‘strategies’, we deploy ‘tactics’. We desire ‘captive’ audiences. Using this kind of language now seems to define the association between the brand and it’s audience…

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    The Dark Side of Social Media

    David Byrne (yes, that David Byrne), on ‘social hateworking‘: "It seems to me that this was inevitable. Once you have the existence of social networking sites you have to take the bad with the good. While it might be nice to think that they are a place to meet “friends” and like minded folks, it…

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    On Being Small

    I once worked at Tower Records in Picadilly (when there still was a Tower Records at Picadilly, or indeed a Tower Records for that matter). I remember it rather fondly. I met my best mate there (19 years later we’re still mates). I served Morrisey (he bought a Mott The Hoople album). When Prince visited…

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    Terminus

    Amazing short film from Trevor Cawood. Click here to view it. Via the excellent RubbishCorp (who has been particularly excellent of late)

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    2007 Best Magazine Covers

    The ASME (American Society of Magazine Editors) have just run their annual "Magazine Cover of the Year". As usual it’s a real feast of visual delight and there’s some pretty special work included in the entries. Visuals of the full list can be seen here. Below are some of my favourites: The actual winner is…

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    Typographics

    Abbott and Costello’s ‘Who’s on First’ routine done in Typographics. If you like this check out: Pulp Fiction in TypographicsOceans 11 in TypographicsEleanor Rigby in Typographicsand a ‘What is’ Typographics courtesy the Vancouver Film School HT to

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    Politics, Advertising and Network Effects

    This quite astounding article in the New Scientist posits a fascinating theory. An analysis of 30 years worth of election results from all round the globe, conducted by Santo Fortunato of the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Turin working with Claudio Castellano of the University of Rome, has shown that voting follows the same pattern,…

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