Some of the discussion in the marketing press recently has been about BP using Google advertisement links to get its side to the story across on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Much of the reaction has been from blogs about the fact that BP had the gall to defend itself. I find this reaction [...]
“for the lolz”: 4chan is hacking the attention economy – new moves in social engineering and media Monocolumn – The soft power of Country & Western [Monocle] FTC to formally investigate Apple’s iPhone policies « Boy Genius Report Kibbles & Bytes #675: WWDC Edition, Safari 5 is Here, Father’s Day Specials! – Small Dog Electronics [...]
Mary Meeker became famous as a dot.com era analyst alongside peers Jack Grubman and Henry Blodget. Unlike Grubman and Blodget she managed to avoid being thrown under the wheels of the bus, so is now the elder stateswoman of the digital economy. Mary and her team at Morgan Stanley put together good thoughtful state-of-the-nation presentations. [...]
Douglas Coupland is unique in modern authors for his combination of being able to write with a sense of keen observation and a unique knack of getting under the skin of the zeitgeist. Generation A continues these traits for the late noughties. Coupland skillfully pulls together a multi-threaded story that pulls together globalisation, environmental angst, [...]
Social Handset Maker INQ Bets on Android & Multitouch Changes in the Search Landscape and How They Impact Search Measurement (comScore Voices) The Anti-Web Movement Is Gathering Pace | paidContent – media industry tries to wind back the web Analyst Makes the Case for Why BP Is Now a Screaming “Buy” Free-to-play games will grow, [...]
Jamie Zawinski calls it the law of software envelopment to explain the concept of software bloat. Or how all truly useful programes experience pressure to evolve into toolkits and application platforms. “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.” Zawinski was [...]
Google’s New Indexing Infrastructure “Caffeine” Now Live Starbucks clobbers all consumer brands on social media | VentureBeat Apples and oranges: Twitter says it has 190 million unique visitors | VentureBeat wafu + guilty free japanese cuisine – one way to cut down on waste
My response to Nat Lanxon prevoked this post from Stephen Davies, so I decided to show my old and current mobile set-ups. Back in 1994, I used to have an Ericsson EH-237, which was a cracking phone – a complete revolution compared to the Motorola luggable handsets that I used at work and the 8000-series [...]
GNU XaoS – exceptionally addictive fractal generator which is much faster than the applications I played around with on an Apple Mac LCIII with the fancier Trinitron-powered monitor. Happy days, simpler times as Stephen Davies would say Blogger Demographics: Who is responsible for the majority of blog content? Short Sharp Science: BP buys ‘oil spill’ [...]
Big Brother finale, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Whilst I find the idea of watching the Big Brother reality television series repellent. A distasteful psychological experiment wrapped up as must-see TV, but they did get a really well-designed logo. It has morphed, adapted and changed; but I think that they kept the best to last. The [...]
Upon getting in to the office this morning I provided comment to Arun via the DM function on Twitter for Is Online Media Monitoring “Outright Spying”? published in / on The Holmes Report website. I think that its part of a wider societal ‘norming’ process where ‘we the people’ are working out how much privacy [...]
I have been doing a lot of training and consulting recently where I have been speaking with clients who were not au fait with social media. Many of them ask me a question which is usually a variant of ‘why Google can’t do X‘ with a sense of disappointment. The problem is less about technology, [...]
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The numbers game « Arun Sudhaman – Arun pulls together David Brain’s estimates and AdAge. » Global PR League Table sixtysecondview: Sixty second interviews from pr, media and politics – interesting take on the industry YouTube – chelskifl’s Channel – the seminal Pump up the Volume documentary which has interviews with the heroes I looked [...]
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