Year: 2008
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Culture, Communication And Impermanence
One of the things I like about this blog is that it captures my thinking as a snapshot in time and if were to look back, I can see how it has moved on, changed, evolved. In reality, I rarely go back over old posts in any kind of systematic way, but it's kind of…
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Blog Action Day – Poverty
For my Blog Action Day post, I'm posting Hans Gosling's talk from last year's TED which features an array of quite amazing statistical visualisations ( I particularly like his race between a Ford, A Toyota and a Volvo) showing how people and countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. The central truth of his talk…
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Post Of The Month – Winner
I'm happy to announce that (after a closely fought contest) the winner of our inaugral post of the month is Dino, with his excellent post on Gestures and Communication. Well done Dino – you get props from your blogging peers and to 'wear' the Think Tank badge if you so wish. We had a decent…
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Blog Action Day ’08
Blog Action Day, the annual nonprofit event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day, is upon us again. On October 15th, thousands of bloggers will be posting about this year's subject – poverty. Their aim is to raise awareness and trigger global discussion – last year over…
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NPD Notebook
This is a plug but one that's well worth doing. Many companies get all het up about doing a corporate blog, forgetting that it is often the interesting people inside that organisation that people want to engage with. Well, the IPC new product development team have started a blog – it's a multi-author blog featuring…
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Think Tank – September 08 – The Vote
OK. Time to vote for your favourite out of our short-list of great posts for the last month. Thanks to James, Gavin, David and Samantha for your nominations (and many others for your support). Remember this about recognising great writing and thinking so please feel free to help by posting, tweeting and generally encouraging as…
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Sleeveface, Bad Advertising And Travelling Gnomes
Regular readers of Dead Fish will know my impatience for campaigns which nick ideas without attempting to add or enhance them at all. I thought I'd seen the last of the Sleeveface rip-offs until Nick pointed out this one. I mean, come ON guys. For those radio stations who think they can pinch an ad…
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Narrative And Commitment
I've said before that the smarter agencies will see the myriad possibilities afforded by fragmented media not as a threat, but rather as a huge opportunity. The interesting thing about the new and emerging forms of communication are the new and emerging ways they allow stories to be told, conversations to happen, narrative to form.…
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Think Tank Nominations – September 08
I got some really positive feedback when I suggested resurrecting a 'post of the month' so here it is – a call for nominations for the inaugral one. To remind you, this is about recognising the good writing, the great thinking, the best posts from the past month.You can nominate your own favourites by leaving…
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The Perfect Magazine
David Hepworth on magazines: "My suspicion is that if a reader could design his perfect magazine he probably wouldn't like it. The whole idea of a magazine is that it's a compromise between what you expect and what you don't, between what you like and what the other person likes, between things that confirm what…