Category: meme | 模因 | 밈 | ミーム
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Revisiting The X-Files twenty years later
I discovered The X-Files at college. I had just purchased a Casio TV with a screen the size of a postage stamp from a pawn shop in Huddersfield. I bought a power block from Argos to save on batteries. The internet was only available for me during college time, so destination TV was a thing.…
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McRefugees
McDonalds and McRefugees McDonalds Restaurants in Hong Kong is famous to Economist readers for consistently providing the best value in the publication’s ‘tongue-in-cheek’ ‘Big Mac Index’. But it is also increasingly becoming a cheap source of social housing for what has become known as McRefugees. The restaurants are ubiquitous, offering cheap consistent food. And many…
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Piggate scandal
In case you’ve lived under a rock for the past few days, Piggate is something you will want to be over by now. What is Piggate? Piggate is an uncorroborated allegation. David Cameron is alleged to have put part or all of his genitals in the mouth of a dead pig. This alleged to have…
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Media diary of a gen X man
Stephen Waddington’s daughter Ellie posted a media diary with a guest post on his blog, go and have a read of it. This snowballed into what is likely to be a series of media diary posts by different people. My contribution was published on his blog this morning. I penned the original version of my…
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2015 predictions
It’s become a bit of an annual tradition on this blog for me to put together some guesswork on what is likely to be coming down the pipe over the next 12 months so here are my 2015 predictions. Business Sony Corp. cleans house with the management teams of its US businesses. One of Sony’s…
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2014 crystal ball gazing: how did I do?
2014 crystal ball gazing 2014 crystal ball gazing was a culmination of thinking that I have been doing on where digital is going. For the past few years I have been thinking about where digital is going and what it all means. At the end of last year here were my projections. I do realise…
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Ontheroof & things that made last week
Russian crew ontheroof took their skills to Hong Kong, hacking one of the city’s iconic electronic billboards mounted on the top of an unfeasibly tall building. Ontheroof have attracted sponsorship from large corporates despite the illegal nature of their work. They’ve worked with brands like Huawei and Canon cameras. Their risk profile would preclude many…
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Walmart + other things
Walmart online to offline retailing A really interesting video with Walmart that looks at the interface between online and offline retailing. Particularly interesting take on mobile payment form factors. Amazon presents an existential threat to the Walmart business. Walmart isn’t going down without a fight. It has innovated in the past on using technologies like…
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Yahoo corporate culture
I bumped into some former colleagues over the past couple of weeks and the experience reminded me of a lot of the items in this post. We shared a common bond based on our exposure to the Yahoo corporate culture. Given the circling activist investors surround the current iteration of Yahoo! this maybe a capsule…