Month: November 2011
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Slow, Fast & Spiky Communications
A few weeks back Matt Locke wrote a rather excellent post about "The New Patterns of Culture: Slow, Fast & Spiky". He talks about nostalgia for a bygone broadcast era of limited channels that had defined a culture characterised by a broad spectrum […]
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Slow, Fast & Spiky Communications
A few weeks back Matt Locke wrote a rather excellent post about "The New Patterns of Culture: Slow, Fast & Spiky". He talks about nostalgia for a bygone broadcast era of limited channels that had defined a culture characterised by a broad spectrum […]
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The StartUp Curve, And Google Plus
I'm getting rather bored of how, following some relatively short space of time after launch, some people rush to declare the early demise of a particular service or startup usually based on little more than than an apparent dip in traffic or […]
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Layar And Magazines
People have been trying for years to crack the idea of creating some kind of interplay between print media and screen media. Unfortunately most of the offerings that people have come up with have never acheived any kind of traction, mostly because […]
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Creative Britain, And Tech Britain
I think John makes a valid and productive point in this post about the IPA's Creative Pioneers mission to Silicon Valley (which seems to be quite the thing to do these days) – namely the opportunity afforded to the ad industry of […]
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Peak Stuff
There was a fascinating piece in The Guardian recently suggesting that 2001 may turn out to be the year that the UK reached 'peak stuff' – the turning point at which, after years of steady increase, the consumption of 'stuff' (the total weight […]
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Post Of The Month – October 2011 – The Winner
Something of a runaway winner in this months vote in the shape of Igor Clark's excellent post on 'Why We're Not Hiring Creative Technologists' so well done Igor - you get the props of your blogging peers and are entered into the Hall […]