Month: July 2009
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Consumers Are People
I'm banning the word 'consumer' from this blog. Not that it crops up that often here – I've been making a conscious effort to avoid using it ever since Adam launched his 'Stop Calling Me a Consumer' Facebook group (and even wrote a piece of Firefox script that automatically replaced the word 'consumer' with 'people')…
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Post Of The Month – June ’09 – The Winner
Very close run race this month, with Charlie's post on 'Time As Context' vying for the top spot pretty much all the way with David's 'Service' post – both excellent contenders but in the end, it was Charlie's post that won at the last fence. So well done Charlie – you get the props of…
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The Story Engine
I love this quote from Guillermo Del Toro on the future of film and entertainment: "In the next 10 years, we're going to see all the forms of entertainment – film, television, video, games, and print – melding into a single-platform 'story-engine'. The Model T of this new platform is the PS3. The moment you…
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Post Of The Month – June ’09 – The Vote
OK, the vote is open. Thanks as usual for the nominations (and thanks Michael for nominating one of mine). So please help spread the word that voting is underway, and of-course vote yourself below. Our shortlist this month is: Time As Context… from Charlie Gower The Price of Pomposity… from Euan Semple Nixon And Complexity……
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Jer Thorp
Two amazing visualisations from Jer Thorp: First up – 'Just Landed' – originated from a thought about the data that is hidden in various social network information streams, this visualisation finds tweets that contain the phrase 'just landed in', parses out the location they’d just landed in along with the home location they list on…
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Post Of The Month Nominations – June ’09
…are now open. Please nominate any good posts that you've read that were posted in the month of June by leaving a link in the comments to this post. As a starter, I've listed six of my own favourites below (sorry – so many good ones to choose from this month I found it hard…
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Making Money From Free
In case you missed it, there's been a mild spat going on between two heavyweights in cultural thinking. In the blue corner, Chris Anderson is out launching his new book on 'Free' (The Future of A Radical Price) : marginal costs trend to zero in a world of ubiquitous choice and rapid technological advancement; the…