Year: 2008
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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…
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Hello Sunshine
You’ll recall the extremely dodgy Ogilvy Anthens anthem. Rob Campbell’s just produced a series of ‘live reactions’. Quality.
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Shared Culture
Nicely produced video explaining the principles behind creative commons, which is of-course the great enabler behind the new participative culture and communications infrastructure. There's some great quotes in here about how the commons framework is "the bridge" to a future (many would say a present) that moves away from thinking purely about content to thinking…
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Vote Obama
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." For all my American readers.
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Financial Flocking (2)
It is perhaps unsurprising that in the current financial malaise few people seem really able to make proper sense of what is really going on. Perhaps this is because many of us are still looking at the world in the wrong way. Jeff Jarvis postulates that we are not only witnessing the result of an…