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
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
Before leaving London I was talking to some brand consultants about engagement. Their puzzle was: how do we get employees to engage with a brand. How would you approach this
JP Rangaswami writes about doubts and uncertainties. In short he’s in favour of them, as am I. He quotes Ben Franklin: In fact, if you wish to instruct others, a
Nick Smith:A question that often comes up is how to make inspiration more solid and stable, and not confined to brief flashes. And the answer in one way or another,
Risley Ranch: Daddy what’s death? Jeff’s blog is getting better and better since he decided to make it more personal (tags: blogging death taoism) —–
