Jake has got an interesting conversation started with Kryptonite.
Blogging for Ourhouse
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
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Keeping up with Tony Goodson
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.
The power of community
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.
Collaboration
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking – and worrying – about collaboration. I think the ability to collaborate effectively is becoming ever more essential
Just Undo It?
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
Trust and NGOs
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
David Bowie says IP is in for a bashing
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
Spam comments and the power of community
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
Google translates compliments well… but strangles a lot of stuff!
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
SharpReader
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.
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Social media, mockery et al
This afternoon Tom Guarriello and I shot the breeze about the Shel Israel puppet story. Sorry, no shownotes for this one. We covered a fair bit of ground: what comic
11 April 2008
How to start a relationship on the basis of manipulation
I’ve always been fascinated by the well-established ritual of creative pitching in advertising. It’s the standard way in which clients start relationships with agencies. How it works is this. The
18 February 2004
Shared Space
Fascinating post at the Intraspec blog, spotted by Dick Richards. When drivers no longer have the security of kerbs and traffic signals or signage their behavior shifts accordingly; they exercise
28 July 2005
Oh, and nature too
Jonah Lehrer in The Frontal Cortex also points to research suggesting communing with nature increases our compassion. I liked Lehrer’s closing thought:As usual, Emerson got it right: “Adopt the pace
5 October 2009