Month: April 2008

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    Geek Dinner Social Cookbook

    Eaon has a great little initiative going on subtitled "the finest brains in media and marketing share their culinary skills" – the thought being that we all have at least one signature dish which we like to roll out when the need […]

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    Cognitive Surplus

    Excellent talk from Clay Shirky at the recent Web 2.0 Expo  (and in many ways relevant to the post below). I like his concept of the ‘cognitive surplus’ from which social and collaborative ideas will gain share. 16 minutes well spent, if […]

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    A Tale of Two Stats

    More evidence (if any were needed) of the degree of disruption new technologies and social media are having on some traditional media models from this entertainment media research study conducted at the beginning of the year. Most notable, is that relating to […]

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    The Brand of 2.0

    2.0.  It's become a cliche already hasn't it? But it's a suffix that attempts to express transformational change in many things – the way we work, the way we vote, the way we consume media, the way ideas spread. Enterprise 2.0, Politics […]

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    Where’s Waldo 2.0

    Canadian artist Melanie Coles has an interesting project on the go – a radically new version of the old 'Where's Waldo' game. Instead of children trying to find Waldo in a picture busy with people (like in the famous books), Melanie has […]

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    Moustaches And Advertising

    "A man without a moustache, is like a woman with a moustache" said Nick Cave. There are too few moustaches in advertising, so I was particularly pleased to see this ad for the Buenos Aires International Film Festival which features a plethora […]

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    Barriers to Change: The 10X problem

     "Gourville’s rule of thumb states that one will underestimate the advantages of a new technology by a factor of 3 while simultaneously overestimating the disadvantages of giving up old technology by a factor of 3. This means that unless a new technology […]

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    Difficult Second Album Syndrome

    First post after a break and it's feeling a bit like Difficult Second Album Syndrome (ie. not exactly flowing) but hey, here goes anyway. Whilst I was away I heard Bill Bryson (of all people) on the radio talking about how beautiful […]

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    Gone Fishing

    I'm away for a week so normal service will be resumed very soon. Have a great week.

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    The Funny Thing About Community

    Apparently at last years Davos gathering, when Mark Zuckerberg was asked by one of the assembled media moguls how to create a community he told them you can't. Communities already exist. Instead, think about how you can help that community do what […]

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