Category: media
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How streaming has changed music
Was it Marshall McLuhan (or Winston Churchill or John M Culkin) who said: ‘We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us’? After last week’s post on what the end of the silent movie era tells us about inflection points in the creative industry,
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Being more intentional in the age of AI
Several years back the brilliant Faris Yakob wrote a triumvirate of posts making the case for a more intentional media diet (post one, two and three). He captured this in the pyramid visual above. The premise was that any content where ideology leads to falsehood (at
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Post of the Month – December 2021 – Nominations
It's time for the first Post of the Month vote of 2022. But first – nominations. If there is a great post that you've read over the past month do nominate it for the vote by sending me the link or by
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Post of the Month – November 2021 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: The Milky Bar Adult by Dave Dye Brush your teeth: why we still haven't found work/life balance by Aparna Bangur The Useful Human Truth: Nine Lessons from Joni Mitchell by Jim Carroll Tree Thinking
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Post of the Month – October 2021 – The Winner
Delighted to say that it is Jessica Hagy's excellent post on The many gifts of awkward silence that has won this month's vote. Well done to Jessica who joins the hall of fame. My thanks to all those who nominated and voted.
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Post of the Month – October 2021 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So this month’s vote is between: Charts that don’t change by Harry Guild and Dean Matthewson The many gifts of awkward silence by Jessica Hagy Creative brief writing by Will Humphrey I want to believe in Ted Lasso by Laurie Penny
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Post of the Month – September 2021 – The Winner
Well it was a reasonably close vote at the top this month between Martin Weigel's excellent Visionaries, Prophets and Heroes post and Alex Murrell's piece on The Errors of Efficiency but in the end it was the latter that won through. Well
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Post of the Month – September 2021 – The Vote
Thanks to those that nominated. So our vote this month is between: You’re Still Exhausted by Anne Helen Petersen Visionaries, Prophets and Heroes from Martin Wiegel Targeting Taste Communities by Ana Andjelic The Errors of Efficiency by Alex Murrell The power of putting yourself in
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Post of the Month – September 2021 – Nominations
Gosh that went quick. Here we are at Post of the Month time again. If you've read any exceptional posts over the past month that you think should be nominated, do send me the link or leave it in the comments below.
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Post of the Month – August 2021 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations all. Our vote this month (including a double-nomination for JP Castlin) is between: The language of marketing is so imprecise as to be almost meaningless by JP Castlin Brand purpose has its place by Phil Adams Care at Scale by Debbie