Month: January 2008
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The Dog Ate My Homework
Image: Max on the Beach At the turn of the year I said that I was going to learn how to juggle. I’ve been progressing rather well at this but have been thwarted by the disappearance of one of my juggling balls. […]
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Distracted
Ever had one of those days where somehow your attention is a bit all over the place? Yesterday I managed to leave my book on the train, my watch at work, my gym kit in a taxi, and my brain at home. […]
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Too Much Cream
This post on the Word Magazine blog raises an interesting point about whether the ‘clunkers’ on great albums (the songs that are a bit sub-standard in comparison to the rest of the track list) actually serve a useful purpose. The C-list songs, […]
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Losing Control
Image courtesy Change is difficult. Especially when in just about every way, the change needed to happen represents a fundamental revision of the way in which things have been done. And done for a long time. We are "Flipping the Funnel". It […]
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New Agency Models
This presentation has just been posted by Albion. I’m not a huge fan of agencies saying they are putting digital at the heart of their business, but this is an interesting insight into their thinking nonetheless: http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=albions-new-model-agency-presentation-1197383365359343-3 | View | Upload your […]
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There’s No Place Like Heima
Right at the back of the new "Most Contagious 2007" report from the guys at Contagious Magazine (it’s worth a read if you haven’t seen it and you can download it here), in the "Ones to Watch" section, is a great example […]
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The Secret of Motivation
It’s been a bit tough getting back into work again after the christmas break so I guess it’s ironic I should be posting about this but there was a great article in New Scientist before christmas about procrastination (I would have posted […]
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Kryptonite Exists
Image courtesy Jon has been manfully posting his series of ’10 things we didn’t know last week’ for the past year. In tribute to such a heroic effort, I thought I might pick out my favourite five quirky facts from this enormous […]
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On Being More Than a One Trick Pony
Image courtesy One of the debates going on in the blogosphere late last year was around the question of whether there was enough advertising to support all the start-ups and launches currently basing their business models on this revenue stream. This followed […]