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    This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links

    Here's my favourite links from this week, as curated by Fraggl: A really interesting special report from The Economist (PDF) on tech startups Pair that with Venturebeat's look at the 6 hottest startups in London for 2014 'As time went on, the face showed the distinction between the two but when the emotion first hit the face signals are very similar suggesting, the…

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    What Is Content Strategy?

    I've just completed some work for Econsultancy researching and authoring a Best Practice Guide to Content Strategy. It was a fascinating piece of work, not least because content is such a growing area of focus for so many organisations right now, but also because the concept of Content Strategy remains relatively ill-defined. For a start,…

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    Post Of The Month – January 2013 – The Winner

    Delifghted to say that the winner of this month's Post Of The Month is Patricia McDonald with the excellent The WInter of our Discontent, which really led the vote from the beginning. So well done Pats, you get the props of your peers and are entered into the Hall Of Fame. Thanks everyone for taking part.

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    Post Of The Month – January 2013 – The Vote

    Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: The WInter of our Discontent from Patricia McDonald Don’t Get Bigger, Get Wierder: Things I’ve learnt From Five Years of The Story by Matt Locke Fracking The Attention Deposits by Toby Barnes How to Disrupt Yourself: The High Costs and Benefits of Hiring Misfits from Bud Caddell Insight…

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    Post Of The Month – January 2013 – Nominations

    Almost an embarassment of riches this month to choose from but I've listed just a few of my favourite posts that were posted in January below. Please do add to these nominations in the comments below or direct, and as usual I will put them all up for a vote in a day or two.…

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    Defining Stock and Flow Content

    Noah Brier has a good take on the development of the stock and flow model for content. It's a good metaphor, and one that I've used a lot over the past couple of years. Originated by technologist Robin Sloan, who first took the economic concept and applied it to content in this way: Flow is…

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    This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links

    Here's my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: The Google Music Timeline "shows genres of music waxing and waning, based on how many Google Play Music users have an artist or album in their music library, and other data (such as album release dates)". Cool.  The power of data. Amazon knows you so well it wants…

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    Building The New

    Patricia MacDonald has an excellent rumination building on posts in the first few weeks of this year from Mel Exon, Andy Whitlock, Toby Barnes (and Alexis Madrigal's piece on The Year the Stream Crested) that thematically all talked about the need to take a step back from the never ending streams of content that seem to continuously…

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    No Dead Ends

    The concept of 'no dead ends' relates to the idea that wherever a user is on your site or your app there is always a next step, or somewhere else appealing or interesting for users to go that they don't have to work hard to find. Links, images and other content that are contextually relevant…

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    This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links

    My favourite links from the week, curated by Fraggl: An uncommonly straightforward, believable set of tech trends from Frog Design A good, smart piece from Ben Hammersley on wearable technology as 'the third wave in computing' A useful summary from Shane Parrish of Clay Christensen's Innovator's DNA: 'The Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators' The story of how Scott…

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