Rambling thoughts about brands and complexity

A few rambling thoughts on whether brands really follow the guru's rules... or actually emerge from complexity
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Jennifer’s post also quotes a reader called Patrick who emailed her thus:

I start to believe that no one really knows what works

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I’ve just upgraded to MovableType 3.16 and I’m having a problem with some of the individual archives (the pages you use for adding comments and trackbacks). Apologies if you can’t