Jack Yan reports another example of marketing folks not seeming to get online media. He relates it to the recent Wall St Journal piece trashing blogs. I try to follow a self-denying ordinance so as not to get drawn into arguments about this. In the end, like Hugh, I find the debate feels a bit irrelevant.
Still I find myself provoked to dig out this online video of Nicolae Ceaucescu (one I’ve used before), as a reminder of the dangers of “misunderestimating” noisy crowds…
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.
Antony Mayfield has an interesting post on specualtion that social banking (things like peer-to-peer lending) could account for 10% of all retail lending in a couple of years. This comes
A friend pointed me to an interesting article in Business Week artilce: A VC’s view of Web 2.0 an interview with Ray Lane, ex Oracle chief. Here’s the opener Recently,
Henry Blodget spotted this image. I think it captures very succinctly the perils of retrospective coherence – the myriad ways we tidy up history to make things seem more linear.
I’m enjoying Not Knowing an interesting book by Steven D’Souza and Diana Renner. It’s got some great quotes and sound bites – I really like the one pictured about the shadow
