Top posts of 2011 | 今年最流行的博客帖子
I delved into the analytics on the blog and had a look at the ten most popular posts I had written in 2011.
- How to set up Weibo for English speakers – the western world started to wake up to Twitter’s smarter, more innovative cousin: Sina.com’s Weibo service
- Throwback gadget: Sennheiser HD250 II Linear headphones – I was amazed at the amount of inbound traffic I got from this post, it seems to have been spread in audiophile forums
- Reductionism, public relations and ‘reputation’ – trying to make sense of the car crash that is the PR profession. Some people got upset at the implication that it is a trade, but my Dad is the smartest people I know learned his trade in engineering and I see no shame in that. I am also immensely proud to have learned my trade from some insanely great people. Don’t let all that put you off, some great comments from a number of people including Chris Reed
- CNN QR code #FAIL – a train wreck of an evening that saw me leave my keys locked in the office by accident and stay over in a hotel near the office gave me this blog post gold
- Throwback gadget: Sony Walkman WM-D6C Pro – if you remember concert bootlegs on cassette or Michelle Shocked The Texas Campfire Sessions album, you’ve got the Sony Pro Walkman to thank. A giant over-engineered work of portable audio that is an emblem of the golden age in Japanese engineering back when the Sony brand actually stood for unmatched quality and excellence
- Why Facebook is a dead man walking part 2.5? | 技术品牌的情绪 – Netbase’s sentiment data on technology brands indicated that Facebook was tolerated as people felt obliged to be on it – and was less loved than Microsoft or HP!
- Amazon, Facebook, Google, Walmart? | 亚马逊，百度，谷歌，沃尔玛？- on the potential I saw of Walmart’s innovation labs to join some of the big successful platform players currently out there
- Ten things that annoy in agency life – it had been coming for a while
- What your Facebook profile says about you – what can I say looking at the traffic this post got I suspect there is a lot of curious or paranoid people out there
- The Futility of QR Codes on tube adverts – thanks to Annie Mole and Going Underground blog this got probably more visibility than it deserved and upset a few people in the mobile eco-system – so I must have been doing something right