Month: January 2009
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The Herbie Flowers Argument
Image courtesy There's a school of opinion, supported by the kind of research that Will has quoted above, that suggests that the best ideas are the product of individual inspiration rather than group effort. The opposing sides of this debate were played out on a recent WORD magazine podcast, but discussed first by Elvis Costello…
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Swimming Naked
"As house prices fall, a huge amount of financial folly is being exposed. You only learn who has been swimming naked when the tide goes out – and what we are witnessing at some of our largest financial institutions is an ugly sight." Warren Buffett The scarcity that has characterised this financial meltdown, perhaps more…
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I Got Soul, But I’m Not A Soldier
Wonderfully charming short film made by Kiva fellow Kieran Ball following the path of a $25 loan from London to Preak Tamao village, Cambodia. Kiva.org is quite possibly the most inspiring thing to have come out of the explosion in social technologies, and this film says it all. As Kieran says, "everybody deserves opportunities, but…
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Post Of The Month – December ’08 – The Winner
Big number of votes on this month's Post Of The Month but after an initially close battle, Valeria's excellent post on Generation 'Why' was the clear winner. Well done Valeria. You get the reflected glory of props from your blogging peers and to join Dino and Jonathan and Charles in the Think Tank Hall of…
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Think Tank – December 2008 – The Vote
Another great short-list for Post of the Month this month, all of them worth a read, and thanks to Simon, Eaon, Valeria, Dario, and Graeme for nominating. So, now time to vote for your favourite which you can do below. And please do spread the word to encourage lots of votes. Our line-up this month…
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Someone Once Told Me
Photographer Mario Cacciottolo has a neat project going called 'Someone Once Told Me', summed up simply as "Black and white photographs, a new one every day, each person writes a message of something someone once told them". And he's done one of me. The message I used is actually something I read from Paul…
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Think Tank Nominations – December 2008
Can hardly believe it but it's Post of The Month time again so nominations for the best posts of December are officially open. Think about the best post you've read over the last month and please nominate it by leaving a comment below with a link. As usual, this is about recognising good thinking and…
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All About Google
At the end of December, Adam featured a list of his Top 10 presentations of 2008 and kindly included my presentation on What's Next In Media in the list, along with Paul's deck on Modern Brand Building (majoring on the 'stop campaigning, start committing' line which I love). Featured in the list is this useful…
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The End
A Flickr set by graphic designer Dill Pixels of classic movie end frames. Images that mark the end of films but the beginning of our memories of them. Love it. The End.
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2009
I have one prediction for the coming year. That 2009 will see more business model innovation than we have ever seen in a single year. We talk about the internet as the great leveller. I think we still have no idea how much of a leveller it really is. So if you believe that we're…