Powerful structures for product-driven organisations
Does anyone else think the following - one an honest-to-goodness advertising campaign (from Fallon no less) and one a piss-take of the world without computers - look suprisingly similar? (And yes, that is Rolf Harris). The entire cracked photoshop contest is a lot of fun, imagining what the world would be like if the internet… Continue reading Care less Wispa
I'm certainly not claiming to be any sort of advertising pundit. However, the recent advertising campaign for Dixons strikes me as quite remarkable, and not in a good way. It has already sparked a lively debate. I'm sure that was at least part of the intention. In fact, I can just imagine a bloke from… Continue reading Last acts
I'm facinated by unintended consequences. Tiny, or apparently unrelated acts, can hugely impact people's lives. The introduction of rabbits in Austalia is a good example. One expatriate British landowner wanted a little of his home country and so brought out 24 rabbits for hunting to Australia. Within ten years, millions of rabbits plagued Austalia, destroyed… Continue reading Unintended consequences
Another excellent Interesting today. Since then my head has been bursting with many of the ideas presented there, particularly the concept of being able to see radio waves, the Indian superheroes, frivolity, and what you might learn about yourself from collecting in depth data describing your thoughts and emotions. As last year, I'm in awe… Continue reading Got me to thinking
I don't very often get to start blog posts with 'when I was a lad'. Merciful perhaps. But something caught my eye in the flat today that got me thinking just that. Between the age of maybe 15 and 17, I spent an absolutely indecent amount of time in places like this: (fantastic Vinyl Exchange… Continue reading Thinking inside the box
So Windows 7 is now winding its way through to be on the PCs your average users. It's virtually impossible to know how they'll like it. Certainly the development community has been very impressed. A lot of my colleagues have been using it as their primary OS for many months. I've had it running since… Continue reading 7 reasons
Thinking about the behaviors of Habitat and Moonfruit over the last week begs the question about what we mean by SPAM. Clearly, inserting marketing messages into randomly trending topics is corrosive and shows no respect for the community. Doing that when the topics were the first voices of dissent from Iran was just plain dumb. But what about… Continue reading Catch it, kill it
I've gotten into a bad habbit. Recently, I've found myself only wanting to write about topics when I can think of a good headline. Which reminds me, a new high-watermark was set by a genius in the copy-editing team at the Sun this week. A front-page banner headline relating the Jacqui Smith expenses furore (over… Continue reading Hierachy of feeds
Antony at Open has been digging into some interesting questions about the changing nature of management and providing environments for leadership in a new world. The first post deals with the concept of 'command and control' being dead. The second talks Shona Brown's contribution in exactly that area to how Google organises and manages itself.… Continue reading Managing to grow
I'm not a twitter expert. This seems to put me in the minority. And it's a great thing that so many people have a view on what the microblogging service is doing in communications and how people, and companies, should be interacting with it. Over at e-consultancy there's been a couple of recent interesting outbreaks… Continue reading Just because you can
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