Month: August 2008
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Obama Speech On Wordle
This is Barack Obama’s address to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver on Wordle. Interesting the perspective this gives it – notably the prominence of words like "work", "time", "keep" and of-course the biggest word of all…"promise".
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The Chaos Of The Exceptional
Fail faster, fail harder. We all know how important a culture of experimentation is to business now. And how difficult it is to be certain of anything in a rapidly changing environment where the old rules no longer apply. And how important less tangible assets, like intuition, become when you're trying things for the first…
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Redefining Media, Redefining Advertising
Four quotes from things I’ve read in the last 24 hours that I think quite neatly sum up the required redefinition of both media and advertising: A quote from Jeff Jarvis that features in this presentation on the new relationship between media brands and their audiences (thanks to Asi for punting this my way): "The…
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New Arrivals
Two new chickens have arrived at Dead Fish HQ. Lucy, who is a Maran hen: …and Charlie (short for Charlotte), who is a hybrid (and a little camera shy): And somehow we managed to come back from the chicken man with another youngster in tow: We asked my five year old daughter what we should…
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Chaos Theory
So, I'm back after a blustery, rain swept but fun couple of weeks. Whilst I was away, I happened to read a great little story that featured in this article about why some complex systems perform better without human intervention: "Back in 1992, General Motors were having trouble managing the automated painting of trucks at…
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Gone Fishing
OK. I’m going to be taking a well-deserved break for a couple of weeks. To keep you entertained, Dead Fish is providing some tunes courtesy of Mixwit and the good old fashioned mix-tape. These are some of my favourite sounds of the moment. Enjoy. And I shall be back before you know it. http://www.mixwit.com/flash/widgets/shell.swf http://www.mixwit.com/m.js
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Free Shirt
Marvellous news. After I responded to his What Not To Wear post by saying that I actually quite liked the shirt he was offering up as his wardrobe nightmare, Rob left me a comment: "You should know that after your comment on my blog, one of my business partners rang me up in the middle…
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Web Without Sense
This is very funny. And it happened to brighten up a late-working session no end 🙂 "Essentially a blog, it is a gallery of common place website design/layout/marketing/general annoyances on the Internet. Equally, it is satirical dialogue aimed to get a message across while being frank and outward." Via
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Dodgy Goatee
A collection of the images that come up if you type in ‘dodgy goatee’ to Google images. So proud.
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Fishmobile
Natty little application I came across over on Dave’s blog – a service called MoFuse which allows you to instantly create a mobile site for your blog. Go here, type in your URL, personalise it, and away you go. If your so inclined you can have Dead Fish on your mobile any time you want…