Year: 2013
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Marginal and Breakthrough Innovation
I liked this talk from Tim Harford from the Wired conference a while back. He uses some great examples to talk about the requirement for both types of innovation – that which brings incremental gain and continuous improvement over time, and the kind that involves high risk, different thinking, frequent failure but big potential gain.…
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Fish Food in 2013
Around two and a half years ago (is it really that long?) I started compiling and sending out a weekly curation of digital goodness – the best links/reads/quotes/things that I've come across on the interwebs over the past week. In truth, it started out as something of an experiment but since that first email the list…
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Will Every Industry Have Its ‘Napster Moment’?
This Spiegel Online article rather stopped me in my tracks. Acclaimed architect Zaha Hadid is currently designing 11 projects across China including the quite beautiful Wangjing SOHO complex in Beijing (above). It seems that in the land where anything can be copied, archiectural 'pirates' have cloned the design of the complex and construction teams are busy…
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Why Publishers Need APIs
Last month I wrote a post questioning why, in the context of exponential growth in the number of companies creating APIs across many sectors, so few publishers were opening up their data and content (at least in part) in this way. The question is applicable to just about every area of publishing that is making…
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Post Of The Month – December 2012 – The Winner
Well done to Mel Exon whose excellent Advertising Is Dead, Long Live Advertising series (Parts One, Two, Three and Four) fought off some stiff competition in the form of Matt Steel's post on The Abundance Of Slowness and in particular Rob Campbell's excellent feedback post to the entries for the Account Planning School of the Web. So well done Mel – you…
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Post Of The Month – December 2012 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations everyone. Our vote this month is between: The Web We Lost and Rebuilding The Web We Lost from Anil Dash The Abundance Of Slowness from Matt Steel Advertising is Dead, Long Live Advertising, Parts One, Two, Three and Four by Mel Exon The Rise and #fail of the Guardian Facebook App by Martin Belam Unwrapping the Judges Presents from Rob Campbell Violence…
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Post Of The Month – December 2012 – Nominations
It's time to nominate your favourite reads from December for Post Of The Month. Again, some good reading to be had over the past month so as usual I've got a starting list below (which includes a couple of series, and a nomination I've already had). Please do add your own nominations in the comments…