On this tip from Jon Strande I installed SpamBayes to Outlook. It’s a cool bit of open source software and after a few days training it’s working very efficiently to separate the spam from the ham in email. I’m a novice with Bayesian filters but I found it fascinating as it starts to understand my own personal idea what is Spam and what isn’t.
A good side effect is that it nudged me to review all the enewsletters I get and to unsubscribe from those I never actually read.
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
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
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
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.
Tim Kastelle wonders how we can get out of our thinking ruts. He pulls together several different threads including this argument from Jeffrey Phillips: Most businesses are about identifying a
As someone prone to thinking of my body as a machine to carry my brain around I’m excited by articles about embodied cognition – like this one featuring Art Glenberg.
Conversations have been on my mind lately. Prompted by my friend down under, Matt Moore I’ve been slowly rereading Patricia Shaw’s Changing Conversations in Organizations. She’s able to articulate very
Chris Corrigan writes about a distinction between facilitation and hosting. Facilitation comes from a mechanistic view of organizations that they are machines that can be fixed. Facilitators typically take a
