Jason Calacanis has touched on the issue of overconnectivity in a recent editon of his email newsletter. It dealt with more certainty about the adverse social effects that connectivity brings which I first heard raised by Eric Benhamou of 3Com when he spoke about a decade ago in a keynote at Networld+InterOp in Paris. Key [...]
The embarrassment in question is in relation to the lame marketing tie-in I noticed between shirt-maker Thomas Pink and the forthcoming Sony Pictures film: The Pink Panther 2. Not quite feeling the synergy here guys beyond the colour pink. In addition to a limited edition range of shirts with a tacky label, there is cufflinks [...]
When I was a kid, there was a strangely tedious yet compelling show on in the middle of the afternoon called Crown Court, there members of a jury picked from the electorial role in the Granada television region (North West of England) heard court cases that were created (featuring actors as judges, witnesses and the [...]
I was looking at a ‘sleeve face’ advert on the back of thelondonpaper for Smooth FM when the artwork of The Beach Boys Greatest Hits caught my eye. There was a red stripe on the top corner labeled ‘as seen on TV’. It is amazing how hackneyed that phrase has become. Sullied by wonder kitchen [...]
Smarta – Think create grow – need to kick the tyres on this is Xing / LinkedIn rival. It must be web 2.0 it has a flickr-like dual-colour logo. FT launches new mobile website – Brand Republic News – Brand Republic – interesting move, optimised for iPhone and Blackberry. From memory the FT used to [...]
At a .Org presentation in association with the Webby’s I heard how Greenpeace’s name a whale campaign got subverted with internet users flocking to rig a vote for Mr Splashy Pants. Now PETA have been punkd with a sophisticated spoof site that tries to make fish over as ‘sea kittens’: I love this explanation from [...]
Having visited San Francisco, it is really hard for me to imagine San Francisco as anything other than a bastion of liberalism. Ok, I know that San Francisco doesn’t allow same-sex marriages, but that is a statewide law, but it is hard to imagine the city without The Castro district. However up until at least [...]
Anastasia Goodstein over at YPulse blogs about teens and their low adoption rate of Twitter. Its a good article and makes a lot of sense check out Why teens haven’t embraced Twitter…yet. One section of the article caught my eye: As long as teens can update their status via MySpace and Facebook for their friends [...]
Why employers should control how staff use Facebook | OUT-LAW.COM Edelman Trust Barometer 2009 sixtysecondview Why Ad Rates Are Plummeting And What It Means For Publishers (NYT) LinkedIn Clamps Down On Super-Connected Users – CIO.com – interesting article, wonder how this will affect most members reach given that super-connected users are often bridges? Microsoft Ready [...]
Kerouac’s On The Road and the Dharma Bums well-known for the influence it had on the counterculture movement, from the beat generation to the hippies and beyond. Wake Up was never published whilst Kerouac was alive, but fits logically into his other works. His love of buddhist culture and a maturing writing style makes Wake [...]
media temple logo, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. I use Culver City-based internet service provider Media Temple (mt) to host my blog. They have a great responsive service that means I have down time of a quarter of an hour now and again rather than the three weeks or so that I had with Yahoo! Small [...]
Louis Vuitton | Graffiti Art, originally uploaded by oliverkray. German graffiti artist / designer Oliver Kray has customised one of Louis Vuitton’s classic design (ok popular, if not classic). I like the way his graffiti disrupts the order of the monogram pattern with organic-shaped splashes of colour breaking through the boredom. It’s doubtful that Louis [...]
Chinese new year doodle from Google, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Google’s Chinese New Year doodle for the year of the ox left me puzzled for a few seconds before I got it, maybe because I am still a bit spaced from sleep. Have a look and let me know what you think.
With the advent of globalisation we are no longer used to the seasonality of foods. If you want asparagus out of season it can be flown in from half-way around the world to the shelves of the local Tesco supermarket. Sourcing from local suppliers is a way of reducing the carbon footprint of your shopping [...]
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