Year: 2010
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Only Dead Fish
So. I have some big news about me. After 14 years (yes, count 'em) at IPC Media, I have decided to leave and start up my own business. This has been no small decision for me. IPC is a great business with some great brands and some great people. But the desire to do my…
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Post Of The Month – December ’09 – The Winner
This months vote was once again a close run thing with some spirited voting going on for both John Willshire's 'Social Production' post and Adam Tinworth's 'Death of the News Package', but in the end it was the former that won through. So well done John. I seem to remember you won your section…
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Post Of The Month – December ’09 – The Vote
Thanks for some great nominations this month. Tim – thanks for nominating Jim Stogdill's post – I'm going to carry it forward to next month's vote as it was posted in early Jan (so just missed being included in this one). And I've carried forward a nomination for Grant McCracken from last month for the…
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On Listening
I love this. I love it not only because it's a great idea, well executed, but because it's important. On Christmas Day, right around the time of the Queen's speech, teenage Britain delivered its own message to the nation. It was the culmination of The Teens Speech project from Barnardo's, that has seen teenagers up…
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Post Of the Month – December ’09 – Nominations
A little late with this (mostly due to being snowed in with no electricity) but it's time to call for nominations for Post Of The Month – the last one of the last decade or maybe the first one of the new decade?. Anyhow, I've listed a few starting nominations below (Disclosure: I've included…
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Powerful Ideas And Poor Conclusions
Image courtesy Over the holidays Seth Godin decried some lazy analysis in a NYT piece which used the proportion of positive and negative reviews on Amazon to attempt to make the case that Amazon was failing its customers with the latest version of the Kindle. I'm not a Kindle fan, but he listed some…
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2010 And Beyond
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." John Cage I'm not really a fan of prediction lists. This time of year there tends to be a surfeit of them. But I think Seth Godin has it about right when he says that the two most important…