For some reason, the tide of spam comments to this site is rising. I probably need to upgrade to Movable Type 3.x and use moderation to forestall it, but I don’t fancy sorting that out till I’m back home. Meanwhile, I’ll try to get online and clean up as often as I can!
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.
I’m enjoying The Wisdom of Crowds a lot. The author knows how to write with lots of wonderful stories to illustrate his argument. (See Dave Pollard’s useful review here.) It
Darn those bullfighters are good. Here’s a sample of Jon Warshawsky’s engaging post today: I like integrity. Do you? I was ambushed a week ago, my nap time
That’s how I’d describe the policy of Coldplay’s label which is blocking use of their latest CD, according BoingBoing: Here are some gems: “This CD can’t be burnt onto a
Over in Denmark my friend Jesper Bindslev has been trying a new approach to meetings. Today I introduced the frame “quick and dirty” at work to introduce a practice I
