Ok, an effort to return to business as usual.
The European Parliament has voted decisively against software patents. Good. But perhaps not as good as I thought, if Tim is right.
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.
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,
The Science of Improv Part 1: How to Fail Magnificently | Impro•gramming This looks at how failure tends to lead us to over-react leading us to sweeping avoidance of things
When facilitating I’m keen to avoid what I call commitment ceremonies. There’s often pressure as workshops/awaydays near a close for some process that gets people to agree on what actions
Tony‘s been writing of his first time experiences of focus groups – two in one week. He comments: I attended my first ever advertising focus group – a virgin audience
