I was reading how the Black Economy is booming as the banks are unable to provide finance to business.
It just made me wonder if we should also acknowledge a White Economy which is all the great stuff that gets done without money changing hands. Stuff that quite often just stops when money gets introduced to it.
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.
The Observer | Business | Why the LSE is not worth it at any price David Lascelles thinks the days of stock exchanges are numbered. Hat tip: Declan Elliott (tags:
Paul Goodison blogs this extract from a site on co-intelligence. Co-intelligence is the capacity to live well WITH each other and life, creatively using diversity and uniqueness, consciously evolving together
After my previous posts on BzzAgents I was interested to see more evidence of efforts to create word-of-mouth marketing in posts from Neil Turner and Dan Gilmour. They’re both a
I’ve been thinking about and working with, agencies lately: ad agencies, design agencies, innovation agencies… In this context, an agency generally means “people who can do the things you can’t,
