IPC blasts Greenpeace for ‘bad’ science – Greenpeace getting called out by the electronics industry Going Korean – NYTimes.com – being Korean sounds suspiciously like being Irish Focus on: Belgium – PR Week Domesticated mass market male w/ mate and girlfriend seeks new Facebook | CisionUK – Facebook looks ‘old’ MR Systems – London Apple [...]
Over the weekend Ruby Quince tweeted about this film created by French agency R+I Creative about how trends bubble up from fashion, to marketing and culture. INFLUENCERS FULL VERSION from R+I creative on Vimeo. Written and directed by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson.
Flight to quality content As online publishing has become cheaper, we had the rise of citizen journalism. But what got less attention was that brands were having to become media companies, this was partly forced upon the brands as consumers looked for a more transparent form of brand engagement. Some of it has also been [...]
Community management You’ve got some Facebook followers, what next? is an abbreviated version of a question I receive a lot when when I am doing consultancy work and training. Many organisations have at least experimented with social media; often in spite of, rather than supported by senior management. There is a need to justify the [...]
Asiajin » Kadokawa To Launch E-Book Distribution Platform – interesting the way some novelists are getting ahead of the game Cigarette Giants in a Global Fight on Tighter Rules – NYTimes.com – if these measures are implemented, reducing the ‘brand totem’ of the cigarette packet, will it instead bring in white label brands and roll-your-own [...]
Augmented reality – use sparingly I was having a chat with a colleague who mentioned that they’d heard augmented reality was the next big thing. I can understand the hyperbola over augmented reality, its a sexy technology which dazzles when you demo it. And it fits into other trends in entertainment that breaks down the [...]
VPRO created this documentary on Google a few years ago. The interview with Vin Cerf is awesome.
I was asked to put together some thoughts on what was next for some of the guys in my agency from a PR | social media perspective, the process of pulling together inspired this post. I broke things down into a number of sections which I’ll write a bit on this blog over the coming [...]
Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X – interesting timing given the recent Google | Oracle court case developments How Baidu Won China – BusinessWeek – interesting take on Baidu, misses out obvious things like the way Baidu built their infrastructure “How effective is pharma digital marketing?”… “I haven’t a clue!” — [...]
Blue-collar music in the North of England has always been different to the south. Donk is the bastard child of happy hardcore which came from rave, piano, Scouse house and the Scottish rave scene.
There is something musical about mechanical devices that I love, I guess that I picked this up from my Dad who is a time-served mechanical fitter and long-time tinkerer. I presume this is why I liked this trailer for Linotype: the film. “Linotype: The Film” Teaser from Linotype: The Film on Vimeo.
I ventured out west to the Saatchi Gallery the other week and discovered their contemporary art shop. The way they define contemporary art also includes product design. The work of Korean designer Seongyong Lee caught my eye. Lee’s Plytube collection uses laminates and veneers inspired by cardboard tubing to create incredibly light but strong furniture. [...]
Give Us Our Data, Facebook – and people are surprised that Facebook is the great satan of the social web because? Web users ‘ignore generic photos online’ (Digital Knowledge Centre – Digital Intelligence) – what we all new over-exposed stock pictures don’t work Barry Diller Surrenders to Googlers Who Dissed Him – a shame as [...]
Violet Blue and John Perry Barlow have both been actively involved in keeping the US ‘net true to a largely libertarian, punk or hippy ethos of people power depending which way you look at it. Great conversation captured by FORA.
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