Month: January 2018
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World Creative Studio + more things
Mood Swing Rebrand – World Creative Studio – interesting take on MTV’s rebrand in terms of approach to the communications challenge. What is even more impressive is that it is coming out of MTV’s inhouse World Creative Studio An Ad Executive Often in the Vanguard Peers Into the Future – The New York Times – The…
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Dark Satanic Mills
Dark Satanic Mills immediately looked like the kind of graphic novel that I would like. I grew up with British dystopian science fiction with a fascistic bent. From the numerous franchises within 2000AD magazine to Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta. The tone of these stories was set by a UK dealing with: Decolonisation and trying…
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Ralph Lauren Snow Beach + more
Gone before you could get your hands on it. I remember this Ralph Lauren stuff from the first time around. Original pieces were so cheap just a few years ago and now go for mad money as there has been a 90s revival in fashion circles. This style of Ralph Lauren makes a pleasant change…
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The Master Switch by Tim Wu
The Master Switch author Tim Wu is an American lawyer, professor and expert on internet matters. He is main claim to fame is coining the phrase ‘net neutrality’ back in 2003. He is well known as an advocate of the open internet. One needs to bear all this in mind when thinking about The Master…
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Personal online brand
Ketchum’s David Gallagher wanted to know whether he should have his own website as part of managing his personal online brand? He initially felt that publishing on Facebook and LinkedIn was enough. There was also discussion around platforms like Medium. None of which give you real control over your content. Wadds like me felt that…
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Connie Chan + more things
I love Connie Chan blog posts and presentations. In this talk she covers how Asian applications manage to squeeze so much more features into their apps than their western equivalent to provide a fuller eco-system of services that she terms super-apps. Connie Chan isn’t only smart, but manages to talk about Chinese eco-systems in a…
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WhatsApp Business & other news
WhatsApp Business Introducing the WhatsApp Business App | WhatsApp blog – a free-to-download Android app for small businesses. Our new app will make it easier for companies to connect with customers, and more convenient for our 1.3 billion users to chat with businesses that matter to them. Here’s how: Business Profiles: Help customers with useful information such…
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Financial services post-Brexit + more news
Interesting analysis on where the financial services industry is going to move their units post-Brexit to continue working in the EU. Post-Brexit London: 4 EU Cities Vying to Cash in on London’s Financial Services Exodus from Euromonitor International One of the key issues of concern for the financial services sector has been the lack progress…
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Directorate S by Steve Coll
Directorate S author Coll is a veteran journalist and professor of journalism. He did time abroad working for an American newspaper covering South Asia. Later Coll wrote for The New Yorker on defence and intelligence. In 2004, Coll’s book Ghost Wars covered America’s involvement with Pakistan’s intelligence service. He focused on the Soviet invasion Afghanistan…