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All the rest is Spam, spam, spam, spam

Thursday, June 5th, 2008Sitting here at JFK this caught my eye All the rest is spam by my friend DC @ Fasterfuture blogspotDavid mentions a Scott Karp post Why Traditional Advertising Formats Fail On The WebHe should have said ...

The economics of abundance and human behaviour

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.Said the economist Herbert ...

When Petrabytes seem like kilobytes – what comes next?

Monday, April 7th, 2008 Affirmation is a great and positive word and I have been feeling some affirmation recently and here is another small slice The concept of Web 2.0 is a dynamic, user-driven mesh of technologiesAbsolutely, and Carlota Perez in her book Technological ...

Its the small things that keep communities together

Monday, March 31st, 2008 Just imagine you are part of the government. Among your principal concerns are how to hold society together at a time of rapid change. You worry about social and community cohesion and the practical, psychological and economic isolation of the ...

Evolution of SMLXL

Friday, March 28th, 2008 In 2002, I founded a company called SMLXL - short for Small Medium Large XtraLarge.Its focus was and still is - how do businesses and organisations meaningfully engage in a commercial or social agenda with their audiences.  We were some ...

ebay and changing customer demands?

Saturday, March 1st, 2008Online auction leader eBay warned in an annual report on Friday that it faces difficulty getting former customers to return, adding to the normal challenge of attracting new users to its sites.In its annual shareholder filing with the ...

Who does the UK government work for?

Thursday, February 7th, 2008Now tell if I am wrong, but I thought that elected Governments are constituently bound to serve the needs to the people that elected them - they, the elected Government are servants of the people. A community in this sense ...

A new digital era: predicts Bill Gates

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Funny old world. In CDB we wroteGeneration-C stands for the Community Generation. The defining and distinguishing characteristic for Gen-C is the continuous connection to and responding to digital communities. This is very different from any other communities. ...

We’re all loved up but we’re not making any cash. Who will be the first to build a portfolio of next generation marketing communications capability

Friday, November 30th, 2007In a business week article Struggles of a Mad Man Kevin Roberts CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi regales us with how he won the business of JC Penny. It seems by getting the Chairman drunk and then telling ...

We’re all loved up but we’re not making any cash. Who will be the first to build a portfolio of next generation marketing communications capability

Friday, November 30th, 2007In a business week article Struggles of a Mad Man Kevin Roberts CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi regales us with how he won the business of JC Penny. It seems by getting the Chairman drunk and then telling ...

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