Month: November 2008
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Make Your Own Money
Regular readers will know of my mild obsession with Sleeveface related ideas. Well here's the credit crunch version – make your own money.
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Exactitudes
Coincidentally, the day after reading about Random and Directed copying in Mark and Alex's piece, I happen across this project from Dutch photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek who since 1994 have documented a record of "people's attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity". Exactitudes (a mash up of 'exact'…
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Counterintuitive
The principles on which the networked world are based are counterintuitive to those that govern the world of industrial era mass-marketing. That means the opposite to what we're used to. Reinventing what we know. Which isn't easy. And if the two worlds are co-existing right now, it doesn't mean that you can fit old established…
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Crazy Leaders Of The World
Liking this Amnesty International effort from Scholz & Friends. The last scene is priceless.
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Post of the Month – Oct ’08 – Winner
I'm delighted to announce that the winner (by a whisker) of Post of the Month for October 2008 is Jonathan MacDonald with his excellent rant . Well done Jonathan – you get the reflected glory of props from your blogging peers and to join Dino in the Think Tank Hall of Fame (and to 'wear'…
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Fooled by Perceptual Bias
Rather than read all the copious analysis pieces in the press about the financial crash, I've been reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Fooled by Randomness which, even though it was written well before the crash, contains some prescient perspectives. Taleb (himself a derivatives trader of some considerable experience) judges the world in a probabilistic way, believing…
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Think Tank – October 08 – The Vote
Time to vote for your favourite out of our short-list of great posts from the past month. Some real goodies this month. Thanks to Stuart, Gavin, Brett, Eaon, James, David for your nominations (and Rob for the Wham slide). Remember this is about recognising great writing and thinking so please spread the word to encourage…
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The Origins of The Conversation
Good presentation from Tom Himpe talking about the domain that sits somewhere between product innovation and marketing, and the evolution within marketing from message-centric to product-centric, from "creating talk value despite the average nature of products & services, towards creating talk value that is embedded in the products and services". I recommend you go read…
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Think Tank Nominations – October 08
After a successful inaugral Post of the Month, it's time to open nominations for the best post for the month of October. To remind you, this is about recognising the good writing and thinking so please nominate your own favourite posts from the past month by leaving a comment on this post with a link…