I was very impressed by Dr Ben Goldacre in this remarkable TV smackdown of Prof Susan Greenfield and Dr Aric Sigman’s sensational claims about Facebook rotting children’s brains.
There’s even more in Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science blog.
Watching this stuff, I was strongly reminded of these classic clips from Brass Eye. (Now that is scientific fact. There’s no real evidence for it but it is scientific fact.)
Hat tip to David Smith‘s highly nutritious daily feed.
Welcome to the Ourhouse Weblog. Blogging is something I’ve become increasingly interested in. Earlier this month I set up the Beyond Branding Blog which is
The competitive streak in me means I need to keep with Tony Goodson’s blog. The struggles of learning to speak “Movable Type” and thoughts on the nature of blogging.
Earlier today I was writing about passion brands and the power of community. I got a small but interesting example of this principle in action when I visited Ton Zijltra’s blog to find that he’s opened a separate blog on his planned abandonment of Microsoft.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking – and worrying – about collaboration. I think the ability to collaborate effectively is becoming ever more essential
The AntiBrand: blackSpot sneakers, a project by Adbusters attacks Nike directly. In doing so they take on what has become one of the great icons
My friend Olaf Brugman has invited me to take part in a workshop in Brussels on October 29th. It looks set to be an interesting
The Church of the Customer blog quotes an NY Times interview with David Bowie who says: I’m fully confident that copyright for instance, will no
I’ve just started to suffer from Spam comments the latest effort by these wretches to publicise their sites. They basically post fatuous comments to weblogs
At the NGO conference (blogged yeserday and the day before) I met Martin Roell a German blogger and e-business guru. He’s blogged the event in
I’ve finally started paying attention to RSS and all this stuff about “Blog Aggregators”. The final shove was wanting to get Martin Roell’s English feed.
In Dublin last week Kay Scorah and I ran our first Day of Noticing Workshop. Kay and I are good friends but we’ve not actually run anything together before and
Here’s a raised glass to the folks at the AdPulp blog. Always a good read lately it’s become particularly good. They are posting with attitude and I like it. Today
My friend Steve Moore was chatting to me today about how football fans marked the death of George Best at games over the weekend. Manchester City (the local rival to
I’m a sucker for stories of psychological experiments, especially ones containing the word ostensibly. You know, the ones where the subjects think the experiment is about one thing but really
