Category: media
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Post Of The Month – August 2013 – The Winner
Thanks everyone for taking part in this months vote. A good showing for Adam's post on journalism and organisational change, and Phil's piece on the tyranny of timesheets but the winner by a pretty clear margin was Clay Parker Jones with his thoughts on Complex Good. So well done Clay. You're entered into the hall of fame.…
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Post Of The Month – August 2013 – The Vote
Thanks everyone for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: The Real Unspoken Problem With Time Sheets from Phil Adams The Cultivation of Empathy: Why We Need Fiction by Martin Weigel Digital is Easy. Journalism is Easy. Change is Hard by Adam Tinworth Complex Good from Clay Parker Jones Why Etsy’s Brave New…
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Post Of The Month – August 2013 – Nominations
Time to open nominations for Post of the Month. As usual I've set out a few starters below (including a nomination I've had already), but please add to these (in the comments) with links to any great posts that you've read that were posted in August. So my starting four are: The Real Unspoken Problem…
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Stacks and Platforms
Several good reads recently around the idea of technology company platforms or 'stacks'. Benedict Evans had a good post on how Twitter is becoming more of a platform, beginning as a protocol with third party clients and many different interfaces before pivoting, taking greater control of the interface, developing advertising products, and launching Twitter cards - expanded…
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Post Of The Month – July 2013 – The Winner
A strong early lead for Bud Caddell's Digital Strategy 101 proved unassailable so his post and deck wins this months vote. Well done to Bud (you are of-course entered into the hall of fame) and thanks to everyone for taking part.
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Post Of The Month – July 2013 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. Our vote this month is between: The Crime Of Ownerism by Andy Nairn Digital Strategy 101 by Bud Caddell Annual Plans Must Die from Paul Isakson How to Become a Master Planner from Paul Isakson How To Make the Right Product by Andy Whitlock Do Things That Don't Scale from Paul Graham Why I'm Hiring Graduates…
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Post Of The Month – July 2013 – Nominations
Slightly later than usual due to holiday but it's time to open up for nominations for Post Of The Month. As usual, I've listed a few starters below (which includes two from Paul Isakson) but please add your own nominations in the comments for good posts that were put up in July and I'll add…
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On the Death Of Journalism
There's been more than enough pixel inches dedicated to talking about the death of journalism. I don't believe it. Neither it seems does George Brock who, in summarising the thrust of his new book 'Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age', takes the unfashionable view that rather than dying a…
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Google Firestarters 9: Creativity Is Not a Department
Thurs saw the good, the interested and the curious of UK planning come together at Google Campus for our 9th Firestarters event (can hardly believe it's been going for over two years now). We like to shake things up with Firestarters, and this one had another unique angle in that it was curated by the…
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Beyond The Cookie
This Forbes piece was a fascinating insight into where tracking and targeting technology may be going. Cookies have become such a pervasive technology powering all kinds of tracking, personalisation and recommendation services including a healthy proportion of ad targeting on the web. When I used Ghostery I counted up to 30 third party tracking technologies being…