The Eurovision Song Contest is a bizarre spectacle.
This year was no exception.
The story of how this year’s winners – Finnish heavy metal band Lordi – won as told by Tomi Ahonen, is worth listening to. (Unlike the Contest itself, IMHO)
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
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.
A few conversations lately have reminded me of this ad from my bygone days. Jimmy Saville pitches the joys of business travel on trains. He talks about how you’ll be
Mike Weaver compares and contrasts these two thoughts: The improvisor (story teller) has to be like a man walking backward. He sees where he has been but he pays no
Jeff Jarvis is on particularly good form at the moment. I love his ornery challenges to MSNBC’s clumsy (and mean) management of its US presidential debate footage. Today he has
Jackie Huba and Jake McKee have interesting takes on the Snakes on a Plane phenomenon. I think Jake’s hits the nail on the head when he talks about having fun.
