Month: April 2016
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renaissance chambara retrospective
renaissance chambara retrospective – whilst looking at something else I decided to do an animated GIF showing what my blog had looked like in various incarnations over the years. I didn’t even remember a few of the designs in the finished GIF. Disappointingly flickr doesn’t host animated GIFs so had to use another service instead.…
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Old mix I’d done
Digging through my digital archive I came across an old mix CD I’d done.Two Technics SL-1200 decks, vinyl records, a no-brand mixer with bass and treble levels on each channel that I had picked up at Maplins (think Radio Shack in the US) and a HHB CD-R 800 recorder to take it down in one…
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IBM guilty + more news
IBM guilty of age discrimination I, Cringely Is IBM guilty of age discrimination? – Part two – I, Cringely – this could get very interesting, IBM guilty in a court of law would pose a wide range of problems from a political and regulatory point-of-view. There will also be issues in terms of skillsets for looking…
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Integrated agency wins
I started thinking about integrated agency wins when I read that Asda appointed Publicis after a short pitch process this week. What was notable about the win was that it covered both creative and media briefs. Notable enough to become a conversation topic when I met up with industry friends for coffee. Integrated wins are…
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Facebook Live + more things
Facebook live A Facebook live streaming service (a la U-Stream and YouTube) was newly launched this week. You can stream on your page or in-group. There is a map to discover streams going on in realtime. I already found one seminar by Nu-Skin a multi-level marketer of wellness and beauty products in Hong Kong as an…
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IP with WeChat + more things
UK companies in discussions related to IP with WeChat | 英中贸易协会与微信法律团队会晤 – WeChat wants brand advertisers and e-tail sales, the brands want a clamp down on grey market and counterfeit product sales enforcing their IP with WeChat. More on WeChat related content here Twitter has outsized influence, but it doesn’t drive much traffic for most news orgs,…
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Hacks and Hackers notes
I went to the Hacks and Hackers London presentations this evening host at the Institute of Directors and here is a summary of the notes that I made. Presenting at Hacks and Hackers this time was: Simon Rogers Kate Day Simon Rogers is ex-Guardian and Twitter. He talked about how Google uses Google Trends, combining…
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With a VHS… + more things
‘I feel like my granddad with a VHS’: UK agency Gen Xers on Snapchat – Digiday – great headline, though I think that they would struggle just as hard with a VHS reciorder. Discover is showing interesting content Apple Watch sales: 2016 projection shows it’s gaining no traction | BGR – really interesting survey. I wonder if…
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Context collapse
Disclaimer on context collapse Years ago I wrote a series of posts with the link-baiting titles of ‘Facebook is a dead man walking’; the first post written in 2008. I say this so you can form an opinion up front about my interpretation around the idea of context collapse. According to The Information, Facebook is…