Post-war Japan was a hotbed of creativity. The improving economy meant that there was increased demand for entertainment, but television was not yet widespread. So a national network of lending shops sprung up around Japan that provided access to manga for an entertainment hungry audience. It was for this market that Yoshihiro Tatsumi started writing [...]
I noticed the Tom Coates had posted on his blog for the first time in months. The post was about his leaving Yahoo!, Y!’s loss is someone else’s gain – I am sure that he can find a good position elsewhere whenever has the inclination to. What I really liked about the post is that [...]
PR + Customer Service Merger Accelerating – a key dimension of the great marketing singularity, I was just discussing this the other day with the client who is re-examining ownership and strategy for online engagement 2010 Dose of Digital Dosie Award Winners | Dose of Digital – Digital Marketing in Pharma and Healthcare With 500 [...]
Mobile seems to have become an issue as technology companies start to think about the future. Part of this consideration of the future has to do with the fact that some experts think that we are into our final decade of gains from Moore’s Law and once that goes kaput Silicon Valley turns into the [...]
He that predicts the future lies even when he tells the truth, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. The big challenge of predicting the future is the high probability of failure. The future is not linear – it’s lumpy.
#QOTD: A throne is only a bench covered in velvet, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Something to think about.
Nokia’s designs on Apple | FT.com – interview with Marko Ahtisaari. On privacy: “The industrial logic of every single social network is that those terms of service will be renegotiated very quickly.” On interface design “All the touchscreen interfaces are very immersive. You have to put your head down. What Nokia is very good at [...]
In the 1990s it used to be that start-up companies ran the risk of being crushed out of existence by Microsoft. Names like Borland, Novell and even IBM suffered. Windows was the dominant platform in business and home use, the Rolling Stones did a special concert for the launch of Windows’95. Macs were used by [...]
We all have some things in our media consumption that are the informational equivalent of the perfect bacon sandwich (in my case: thick-cut processed white bread, smoked bacon grilled until it will shatter like glass and Chef brown sauce.) Here’s mine: Vice magazine Dos and Don’ts – Dos and Don’ts is kind of like sitting [...]
Free Beer Not as Good as It Sounds–Unless You’re Pregnant | Fast Company – genius alcohol-free beer for new mothers Beet.TV: Online & TV Viewing Merge as More Consumers Become Platform “Agnostic,” comScore – TV, online same thing basically Let ‘elderly’ get new start as firms force retirement | The Japan Times Online – where [...]
We are so used to manufactured pop music artists by the likes of Tom Watkins, Stock | Aitken | Waterman and more recently Simon Fuller’s 19 Entertainment. Some of these groups like Wham, Kylie Minogue and Take That had international success. We have gotten used to the dominance of western international recording artists. Wonder Girls [...]
With rising debt levels in the European Union, in particular Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain it was only a matter of time before investors came up with a natty acronym for the highest risk countries: PIIGS.
Before digital, I did conventional PR and my first PR job was as a PR assistant during vacation time at college for the Liverpool Bay oil and gas development. I still have my Caithness glass paperweight which I was given as a souvenir of my small part in helping to bring the field online. I [...]
Paul-Rand.com – Confusion and Chaos: The Seduction of Contemporary Graphic Design – knowing the woods from the trees. Understanding when modernity and change aren’t progress but fads Five forces reshaping global economy: Global Survey results – McKinsey Quarterly – Strategy – Globalization – globalisation rolls on Lockdown or Death for your FaceBook Profile: An Advanced [...]
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