Month: March 2008

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    Same Same But Different

    How different are the British from the Americans? The Economist has just run a survey interviewing a thousand Brits and a thousand Americans with the same questions relating to social, economic and political matters. The differences are quite stark. Amongst the nuggets […]

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    Earth Hour

    Today is earth hour day. You can support it by turning off your lights between 8pm and 9pm local time to promote electicity conservation. The first earth hour in Sydney in 2007 engaged around 2.2 million people and cut the city's mains […]

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    Age of Conversation Bum Rush

    Isn't the blogosphere great? 275 (yes 275) bloggers collaborating on the second incarnation of the Age of Conversation on the subject of "Why don't people get it?". And yes, there will be an Only Dead Fish contribution. Meanwhile this weekend sees a […]

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    Future Advertising (& Marketing) Trends 2

    In the comments to this post on future ad trends Gavin pointed me at this presentation by the ever-insightful Paul. And I’m posting it as a follow up to the earlier post because a) it’s a more rounded round up and b) […]

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    Future Advertising (& Marketing) Trends 2

    In the comments to this post on future ad trends Gavin pointed me at this presentation by the ever-insightful Paul. And I’m posting it as a follow up to the earlier post because a) it’s a more rounded round up and b) […]

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    How To Be Happy

    Lee from Serendipity Book posted a great quote from philosopher Dan Dennett – a one sentence definition of happiness: "Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it." This more altruistic approach to finding fulfillment may well work […]

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    Future Advertising Trends

    …according to Ben Hourahine, Futures Editor at Leo Burnett (London). A surprisingly unsurprising round-up (several of these are surely existent) but interesting nonetheless. Via

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    Alarmism

    Set your alarms

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    The Death of Customer Service

    TIME magazine is running a feature on "10 Ideas That Are Changing The World". Alongside some pretty big concepts around sustainability, "reverse radicalism", geoengineering, and the impact of ageing populations, they highlight the unstoppable rise of self-serve technology citing such joys as […]

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    The Urbanista Diaries

    This is pretty smart. Nokia have sent four of their favourite bloggers on a trip around the world "armed with only their wits, guile and a Nokia N82 multimedia computer." Their mission "to record their journey and the people they meet along […]

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