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.
I’ve created two new RSS feeds for those who’d like a less rambling stream from this blog. One gives you just material relating to facilitation the other branding. Here’s the
Jon Husband spotted Billy Bragg’s piece in the Guardian. Bragg suggests that our current economic crisis can be traced back to Mrs Thatcher’s defeat of the miners and the ideology
I liked Euan’s neat summary of how to do Enterprise 2.0 and Jon Husband’s elaboration of it. Jon points to Jim McGee‘s metaphor: If my hypothesis has any merit, it
That’s how I’d describe the policy of Coldplay’s label which is blocking use of their latest CD, according BoingBoing: Here are some gems: “This CD can’t be burnt onto a
