Month: December 2012

  • Data utopianism + other trends

    Four ideas including data utopianism, liberation from choice, context driven divergence and the soft innovation crisis have been kicking around in my head for a while. But the four ideas didn’t quite feel like standalone posts. Part-observation, part-manifesto make of the four trends what you will. Data utopianism There is a temptation to think that…

  • Nokia Lumia + more news

    Nokia Lumia The Nokia Lumia hasn’t got off to a great start. I got to try a Nokia Lumia 920. It had a heft to it that was similar to my Nokia Communicator E90. The Nokia Lumia hasn’t been enough to stop Samsung’s Galaxy from displacing Nokia as the world’s top cellphone brand. This is…

  • Levenson report

    Levenson Report impact I have been viewing the outcomes of the Levenson Report from afar and decided to revisit my first post on all this: In the grand scheme of things the impact wasn’t that big. Whilst the News Of The World (NoTW) closed down, the replacement paper by News International has only managed to…

  • Chinese brands opportunity

    Chinese brands opportunityl – a sister company of my agency has launched a report on the top 50 Chinese brands. The report is exhaustive and has lots of smart stuff in it that will undoubtedly make it into the PowerPoint presentations I have to churn out over the next year. Leafing through it though I…