Year: 2012
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Google Firestarters 5 Visualised
It can't have been easy for the guys at Scriberia to visualise Cory Doctorow's amazing talk at last weeks Firestarters event. But chief scribe Dan has done a fantastic job at committing to illustration a talk crammed with great metaphors and delivered at some pace. So, as a follow up to the write ups of the event,…
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Post Of The Month – April 2012 – The Winner
Well, it was run close by Patricia McDonald's strong post on the interest graph and social commerce but in the end, the winner of Post Of The Month was Dan Hon's personal and powerful post: Myself, Quantified. So well done Dan. You get the props of your blogging peers and are entered into the Hall…
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Google Firestarters 5: Cory Doctorow – The Event
Well. I can honestly say that it's taken me a good few days to digest Cory Doctorow's amazing talk at our fifth Firestarters event last Wednesday. And I'm still ruminating on it. Cory's talk, billed as 'The Coming War On General Computation' concerned what he sees as the gross inadequacies inherent in our regulatory and…
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Post Of The Month – April 2012 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations (you'll note one of them is a PDF that was originally published for the Rotman School Of Management). So this months vote is between: Myself, Quantified by Dan Hon Easter Island, Choice, And Making Things People Want by John Willshire Why The Interest Graph Is The Future Of Social Commerce by Patricia McDonald "Meaningful"…
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Post Of The Month – April 2012 – Nominations
It being the beginning of the month means it's time to open up nominations for Post Of The Month. So please nominate your favourite posts that were posted in the month of April in the comments below. As always I've listed a few of my own favourites as a starter – please add to these and once I…
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Google #SearchFirestarters – Attribution
It's all go with Firestarters right now. Tomorrow we have Cory Doctorow in the house, and last Thursday saw our inaugral spin-off event for the search marketing community. Around 200 of the great and the good of the search industry came together to debate the thorny subject of attribution – the use of data and…
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‘Running Between The Toes Of Giants’
The reams of Facestagram coverage threw up a couple of interesting metaphors which I really liked. Nicholas Carlson's recent piece on Business Insider uses the phrase quoted here in the title to describe the fine line for entrepreneurs (particularly those with a disruptive product or service) between successfully changing the dynamics of a market and being trampled on…
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Google Firestarters 5: Cory Doctorow
So, exciting news. For the fifth in the series of Google Firestarters events for planners and digital media folk we are lucky enough to have Cory Doctorow, the renowned science fiction novelist, journalist, technology activist, and co-editor of Boing Boing. Given the increasing ubiquity of digital technologies, their integration into just about every device, and…
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Wirewax – Interview With Dan Garraway
Dan Garraway is a technologist, creative, and the co-founder of (IMO) one of the most interesting pieces of digital video technology out there: WireWax. I first met Dan and his co-founder a couple of years ago when, as a young startup, they got in touch to show me their technology that enables you to add…
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The Progression Of Agency Value
Over the past few months I've been working with the smart folk at Econsultancy on a project (in partnership with Adobe) to better understand the impact of digital technologies on agencies. A big reason for doing this is that, inspite of there being much chatter in the blogosphere on the future of agencies and the…