Powerful structures for product-driven organisations
On Friday 6 April, Kathy Sierra posted a follow-up on the 'death threats' nightmare that began on 26 March when she was forced to cancel an appearance at the O'Reilly ETech conference. Here is the original post related to that. As a high profile blogger, Sierra had been subject to criticism, including the occasional abusive… Continue reading Passion and hatred
Who would have thought that making your motto "don't be evil"/"do no harm" would have be effective enough strategy to get everyone to quietly ignore everything you were doing that was a bit dodgy. Well it's worked for doctors and, of course, Google. Now don't get me wrong, I have strong belief that most doctors act in… Continue reading Good cults and bad cults
Jon Leach has spotted a very important pattern on his blog of the same name Pattern Recognition. He's a fellow Chime person and is commenting on Resonate winning a digital-only pitch. I've spoken to Michael Frohliche about how much of his pitches are digital and his view is very straight-forward this: "They're all digital pitches". And… Continue reading Pattern Cognition
So, what's the report on Chinwag Live's second event Mobile Metamorphisis? Well I'm a little torn. I think without Jonathan MacDonald (one of the speakers), it would have stood the chance of being a little dull. However, with him, it descended into a hideous .com self parody. Jonathan should have turned up for the first Chinwag… Continue reading Oh MY God!
It was a pleasure to attend Chinwag's inaugral live event "Wobble 2.0" at the Slug and Lettuce on Wardour Street on Tuesday (6th Feb). The little speeches by the panel were alright, although not broadly on the topic but more a potted elevator pitch from each one's dot.com. Mike Butcher was suprisingly nervous but great during the… Continue reading Wobble 2.0
Do you ever get the feeling that technology is just going through a bit of a growth spurt? Well you've seen nothing yet. This is just technology following the exponential growth curve it's been on for millions of years. Ray Kurzweil is an inventor and author of "The Singularity is Near" a book which predicts the… Continue reading 2020
In my current job, we care alot how much time people are spending online. That's becuase it tends to feed very directly into how much media our clients should buy that way. That's a very old fashioned approach really - although it works (for forecasting trends at least). In presentations this is called "money follows… Continue reading Shopping
It might be all flash and take ages to load but look at this excellent site. It's like wefeelfine.org x 100: http://timecapsule.yahoo.com/capsule.php. A few people have pointed out that it doesn't do what "normal" (and by "normal", I think we all mean "Blue Peter") time capsules do, it's not full of pictures of old, out… Continue reading Ultimate web 2.0 site, so far
(Transfered from Blogger / Typepad versions of blog) Neal Stephenson published Snowcrash in 1991. If you're wanting to find that book in a book shop now, I'm guessing you're as likely to find it in amongst goblins and Star Trek anthologies but it really is a most remarkable feat in futurism. Most people would… Continue reading Snowcrash
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