Month: July 2009

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    What’s Next

    Early last year Paul shared an excellent presentation on What's Next In Marketing & Advertising. At the time, I commented to him that I thought there might be a media and content perspective that would compliment  what he was saying, and he […]

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    Flight Patterns

    Love this. A short film by Charlie McCarthy based on 156 long exposure photographs of bugs under a streetlight. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5676816&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo. Great catch by the Creative Review blog.

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    The Irrelevance Of Digital

    There's been a few things I've read recently questioning the relevance of the word 'digital' in marketing, suggesting that in light of the digitisation of all media it is losing its meaning, that the days of specialism are over. I think Marc […]

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    The Candle Problem

    Rob left an insightful comment to my post on failurephobia: "…in a world where companies budget by week – let alone by quarter – is it really surprising that only certain industries and categories happily invest in R & D (or should […]

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    Resonant Frequencies And Failurephobia

    Image courtesy I once had a boss who said "failure is not an option". In this rather sobering post, Jeff Jarvis quotes Craig Newmark who, upon returning from a recent trip to the UK has commented on an apparent culture of failurephobia […]

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    Re: Selling Out

    Good catch by PSFK, who highlighted this video by You Tube blogger Kristina Horner who posted in response to some criticism about approaches by brands to bloggers. Kristina, who did some stuff as part of the Ford Fiesta Movement, is eloquent in […]

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    Exhaust Data

    There was something about Adrian's thought-provoking post on the digital blurring between objects and people that reminded me of reading Grant McCracken's thoughts a couple of years ago on 'Phatic Communication' – the kind of communication that is all about sharing feelings […]

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    Data As Art

    These data visualisations from Chris Harrison are so beautiful they are an art-form in themselves: Digg RingsUsing data from the digg API, the top ten most-dugg stories of the day over one year rendered in a series of tree-ring-like visualisations (moving outwards […]

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    Consumers Are People (2)

    Looks like I struck a bit of a chord with my protestations around some of the language we use in our industry. There were some great comments and some good discussion around my post (thanks), some good follow up posts, and plenty […]

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    The Wrong Summit

    This short 3 minute TED talk by Arthur Benjamin makes a simple but very perceptive point, that the teaching of mathematics is now out of step with the modern world. Moving beyond the foundations created by arithmetic and algebra, Benjamin suggests that […]

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