Month: October 2009
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Why Clever People Believe Stupid Things
This is the title of a chapter in Ben Goldacre's excellent book 'Bad Science'. In it, he talks about inherent bias – the kind of false beliefs or 'cognitive illusions' that come from the shortcuts we use to simplify complex problems when we reason informally, and that can often mean (to paraphrase Ben): 1. We…
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Bots And People
"Ask yourself this: do you think Wikipedia ever hired an SEO consultant in order to get its high rankings on Google?" Jeremy Keith I posted this quote (via armandoalves) over on the Tumblr the other day because it makes such a good point about the rounded benefits of good, people focused content. There are of-course…
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Hands From Above
This is genius. From artist Chris O’Shea. Fun, interactive, doing stuff with people rather than at them. Wonder how long before an advertiser uses this idea… http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7042266&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Hand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo. Via
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Britain’s Got Talent
“In the knowledge economy all staff are volunteers, but our managers are trained to manage conscripts” Peter Drucker I've been thinking about this quote ever since I read it over at Johnnie's place. I did a webinar the other day about social technologies, and there were a number of HR professionals on the call. The…
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Blog Action Day 2009 – Climate Change
September 25th was Earth Overshoot Day. Just over three weeks ago, humanity began living beyond its ecological means for this calendar year. Since that day, we are in the ecological equivalent of deficit spending, using up resources at a rate faster than what the planet can regenerate. Today is Blog Action Day – the annual…
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Post Of The Month – September ’09 – The Winner
In spite of a late run on Helge's post, the early leader held out so I'm delighted to announce that the winner of this months Post Of The Month is Michael Litman with his excellent post on social media measurement. Well done Michael. You get the props of your blogging peers and are entered…
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Post Of The Month – September ’09 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations (and thanks to AdLand Suit for nominating one of mine). Our shortlist this month is… How To Be A Better Brand Planner by Julie CottinThis is Not The Time For Big Lazy Brands from Helge TennoWhy Not Take A Moment To Define Success Before You Pursue It by Alex Bogusky When…
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Post Of The Month Nominations – September ’09
Time to nominate your own favourite posts of the past month. Gotta say, there was some great reading to be had in September (including Tim's post on agile measurement, Jon on outsourcing and some posts that were not about advertising, like John Moe's lament about the death of David Foster Wallace, and Hank Williams with…