Did you realise that if you just Google the word “Evelyn”, Evelyn Rodriguez is the fifth entry. Evelyn Waugh is a whole page behind her. And for “Hugh”, Hugh MacLeod come in as number 2. Hugh Jackman limps in fourth. I won’t say what happens when you try “Robert”, it might get Dave Winer complaining again.
Not saying this means much, but it amused me.
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 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
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
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 had a great meeting in the Organic Pub with James Cherkoff. We’re pressing ahead with our idea of running a workshop for clients. It’s to explore how to make
Grant and Tom both dispute this article by Lance Ulanoff: MySpace, Second Life, and Twitter Are Doomed. Ulanoff begins: Don’t get too attached to MySpace. You might want to pull
Moving swiftly on, the prompt for today is What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it? Well goodness, there are
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
