Category: media
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Have Focus Groups Had Their Day?
"They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products." Jonathan Ive I'll admit to having never really been fond of focus groups. For quite some time I've been troubled by the question of whether they yield quite the value that companies seem to invest in them. Or rather, I should perhaps more…
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Digital Curation – SXSWi 2012
The uber-smart Len Kendall, Alicia Kan, and the not-so uber smart me, have joined forces on a panel proposal for SXSWi 2012 on the subject of Digital Curation. It's subtitled "Why Value Over Volume Wins", and we're attempting to provide some useful perspective on the thorny subjects of information overload and digital content curation which…
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Porous Paywalls
This piece by Felix Salmon is the smartest post on paywalls I've read in a long time. In it, he talks about how the porousness of the NY Times paywall is a feature, not a bug: "It allows anybody, anywhere, to read any NYT article they like. That makes the NYT open and inviting —…
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Post Of The Month – July 2011 – The Winner
An even spread of voting for much of this months vote, which then became a contest between Edward Boches' excellent Social Media Trends post and Martin Weigel's challenge to Stop Fetishising The Insight. But in the end it was the latter that won through, so well done Martin. As always, you get the props of…
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Post Of The Month – July 2011 – The Vote
Thanks as always for some good nominations. So this month's vote is between: If Your Website's Full Of Assholes, It's Your Fault by Anil Dash Stop Fetishising The Insight from Martin Weigel If You Want To Succeed, You've Got To Assume No-one Cares by Martin Weigel Rigidly Defined Areas Of Doubt by Andy Whitlock Approaches…
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Post Of The Month – July 2011 – Nominations
Slightly later than usual due to holidays, but nominations are now open for Post Of The Month. So please nominate the best posts that you've read and which were posted in the month of July in the comments below. As usual, I've listed a few starters (you may notice there's a double nomination for two…
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What If?
Johnny (ever the collector and curator of interesting points of view) points at a post from Tim Kastelle that draws an interesting point from Anything You Want, the book on entrepreneurship by CDBaby founder Derek Sivers. The book tells the story of how a voice coach that Sivers had when he was in a band…
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Agile Planning (Redux)
The smart guys at LHBS in Vienna asked me to give a talk on Agile Planning earlier this week as part of their series of "Uncomfortable Talks" designed to promote some good, challenging thinking on the practice of communications and planning. It was helpful in bringing together a bunch of disparate thoughts I've long had…
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Post Of The Month – June 2011 – The Winner
After a strong showing from Bud Caddell's The Big Fail, this month's vote turned into a race between Martin Bailie's excellent Why 'How' Is As Important As 'What' and Jennifer Hohn's Adventures in Failure but in the end it was the latter that won through. So well done Jennifer – you get the props of…
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Post Of The Month – June 2011 – The Vote
Thanks to all for some good nominations. So this month's vote is between: The Big Fail from Bud Caddell My Very Unofficial Cannes Lions 2011 Recap from Olivier Blanchard What Art Has Got To Do With It by Rishad Tobaccowala Why 'How' Is As Important As 'What' by Martin Bailie Adventures in Failure by Jennifer…