Archive for the ‘Engagement Marketing’ Category

Cambridge technology cooler than the Apple tablet?

Friday, January 29th, 2010Cambridge produces some extraordinary technology. So I am glad to celebrate that.Its engagement as technology even into the automotive industry. Is it a disruptive technology? Minority Report springs to mind. And its twitter and wifi enabled.

Obama and the superbranding of politics

Monday, January 25th, 2010My god Naomi Klein takes me back - No Logo is up there for anyone who is remotely interested in brands. And were I to draw up a time line of books I have read and how each book subsequently ...

I get a 70% royalty for publishing my book

Thursday, January 21st, 2010Quite extraordinary, I thought when reading about how Amazon is reaching out to authors in a manner that completely disintermediates publishing companies. And publishers as we know them are not happy campers at the moment.Arjan from Freedom Lab linked to ...

Its not online or offline, it’s blended reality

Thursday, January 14th, 2010We acknowledge that digital communication tools, fixed broadband, mobile, convergence, open source, cheap production tools have changed our world. And we have shown that we are reluctantly accepting that by using the word digital ever more frequently.Digital natives vs. digital ...

Alan Moore speaking @ sxsw 2010

Monday, January 11th, 2010This weekend I was invited to give a keynote @ sxsw 2010 based upon my submission in August last year. (watch the 2.5 minute film)The topic is Straight Line Thinking Stops Here, something that I covered at The Do Lectures ...

Crystal knuckle dusters

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010[caption id="attachment_4946" align="aligncenter" width="460" caption="This would be awesome even if it wasn't titled "I'm going to realign your chakras, mother******." "][/caption] The caption to this piece reads, (Via My Love For You.)And what has that got to do with anything? Nothin' ...

Mobile futures

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010I was asked whether I would like to make a few predictions around mobile, networks, commerce and culture by Rudy de Waele. I joined a very interesting collective to share my views and I was fascinated by what everyone of ...

Journalism looks like this in the networked society

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Fascinating piece on the reinvention of journalism.A blended reality approach is absolutely necessaryOf course, developing an active social media presence through Twitter and a Facebook Fan Page is critical to developing a readership. But for hyper-local journalists, face-to-face community ...

What we call things is important

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009Having a mooch around with some ideas I am playing with I stumbled upon this book Metaphors We Live ByA quick check on the reviews was interestingStarting with the (deceptively) simple premise that the way we talk about certain things ...

War * Culture

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Found this on Flickr today[caption id="attachment_4824" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18382722@N00/118539502"][/caption]Each circle represents an individual with an outmodel (M) that represents its individual view of the world (color). The outmodel of each individual is heavily influenced by the outmodels of the individuals ...

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