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 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
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.
Like many others I’ve been getting more and more bogus comments from Spammers promoting their sites. So, having delayed for a while, I’ve just installed
The kids are all right « BuzzMachine Jeff Jarvis interviews teens in New York on their use of Social Media. They're massively into Facebook Twitter not so much. He suggests
I liked this TED Talk by Tim Jackson especially his snappy analysis of where our current economic models go awry: We spend money we don’t have, on things we don’t
I like Shawn Callahan’s examples of interventions: turning off the blind copy functionality in an email system to send a message about trust providing managers with notebooks with the inside
Steve Yastrow blogs his new article, The Window and the Mirror. This prompts some further thoughts about the difference between change, and just talking about change.
