Month: February 2008

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    New Journalism

    Image courtesy The web works in such counter-intuitive ways to traditional media that everyone has to get used to new ways of doing things. Take journalists. They once enjoyed a gloriously monopolistic approach to distributing news and content but are developing the […]

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    Tate Modern Extension

    I was taken on a tour this morning of the site where the new extension to the Tate Modern is to be built. Planning has now been granted for a pretty spectacular new building designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron on […]

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    Missing The Point

    Image courtesy Frankly I think pieces of research like this are faintly ridiculous. NBC Universal has conducted a study which concludes that TV viewers can recall some ads even when they are fast-forwarded six times normal speed. The study went further, showing […]

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    Living Archives

    Streisand, who sung about misty water-coloured memories courtesy Finding this on the Beeb opened up some interesting thoughts on the storing and sharing of memories. The BBC Memoryshare project is a living archive of over a hundred years of memories from 1900 […]

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    On Consumption

    Over-consumption is a tricky subject but one which is worth some reflection. Here are some sobering facts courtesy The Ecologist magazine: Every year UK households throw away the equivalent of of 3.5 million double decker buses of waste, a queue that would […]

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    Make Your Own Album

    Lovely album cover meme on Flickr: 1. The name of your band comes from the first article title on this randomly generated Wikipedia page 2. The title of your album is derived from the last four words of the very last quote […]

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    Annoyed

    This really annoyed me when I saw it. It’s a Spanish print ad for the fnac record stores. And it’s a complete rip off of the great consumer driven idea Sleeveface. Thing is, they haven’t even tried to do anything different. They’ve […]

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    The Sum of The Parts

    Image courtesy Online is a very accountable medium. Of-course it is. In fact it’s almost too accountable. One campaign or one piece of website traffic analysis can provide an embarrassment of metrics to wade through if you feel so inclined. Impressions, click […]

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    Catalogue Man Strikes Back

    Image courtesy I thought this was an interesting take on why the UK is so far ahead of its European counterparts in e-commerce volumes and penetration. According to e-marketer the UK will account for at least 40% of online sales in Western […]

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    Thanks to Geek and Poke

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