Earl has some rousing thoughts about the power of Little Brother.
Those who used to take advantage of the fact that memory is so unreliable and that they controlled the systems for production and distribution of information are learning hard lessons from a world where half a billion little brothers are now peering through their windows, ratting the kitchen cupboards and the fridge and rummaging in the rubbish.
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.
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.
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.
My work really revolves around conversations. I host unhurried conversations and I help people have difficult conversations. When facilitating meetings I often work to shift away from unwieldly one-to-many formats towards more conversational ways of
Bob Sutton has an interesting post linking to this New York Times story: After Bankruptcy G.M. Struggles to Shed a Legendary Bureaucracy. A manager relates how the company’s legendary bureaucracy
Jon Husband found an engaging post by Kevin Carson taking aim at the thesis of the book Who Moved my Cheese? If you enjoyed the Fetish of Change essay I
Chris Corrigan points to this fascinating NY Times interview with a leading Norwegian peace negotiator. I particularly focussed on this comment about the notion of a war on terror. “The
