James takes a day trip to the Fourth Estate.
However, it’s the interaction between blogs that makes them so interesting and influential. A single blog can be akin to a ranting madman on the corner. However, when linked together into massive intertwining communities they have the vibrancy and passion of an enormous street market, with information, opinions and whispers exchanging hands at light speed.
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.
There seems to be a plague of listicles these days but one titled 12 Things Successful People to Do Before Breakfast is almost beyond parody. But Tara Sophia Mohr gives a thoroughly well-deserved pushback to
Alastair Somerville is doing some interesting thinking about the assumptions we easily make when organising conferences. He’s pushing at the limits both of more conventional events and of unconferences. It’s
Harold Jarche makes some good points about the frustrations of conferences. For instance a problem is presented in a plenary session and participants are immediately asked to brainstorm & give
On Facebook Patti Digh offers some fabulous advice:To my friends with kids moving to college next week, I have but three pieces of advice: 1) Handcart. Trust me. You’ll make
