Way Out Where

In a “bid to find tweets that are ahead”, The Golden Twits awards have been launched by The Drum magazine to try and find the best tweeters in the Galaxy, and they’ve very kindly asked me to be one of the judges on the panel.
As with anything you’re asked to judge, it’s a strangely humbling […]

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First up, the fact that comments on a YouTube video are often funnier than the video itself. Take this piece of succinct genius from the comments on the latest Diet Coke ad (which truly is awful)
Revengeonseattle (48 minutes ago)
The people who made this ad made the world worse. 
Now, I’m not sure what problem this […]

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Everybody is talking about Twitter. Stephen Fry talks about it. In fact, journalists ask him about Twitter before they ask him about his latest film. The Guardian put Twitter on it’s front page. Twitter is Here.
In fact, over the last few days, people have started saying to me, “oh, Facebook is over. No-one’s on Facebook […]

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in his book The Black Swan, talks of large, unpredictable events, and how these events are ones that have the most consequence on the world around us. Events of consequence are almost impossible to identify in advance, seemingly obvious only in retrospect. If events that have the most impact are almost impossible […]

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The New York Times has removed almost all of its content from subscription-only. People tell me that the Wall Street Journal will soon do the same. In Chris Anderson’s recent article for Wired magazine, he names advertising as one of the 8 business models that will allow end users free content. All hail the ad-funded […]

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Spurred onwards by a ridiculous discussion at work (the gist of which was that you had to use Flash to build interactivity on a website), I decided to build a very quick proof of concept for a javascript slideshow.
In fairness, when I say “build”, what I mean is “plug together a few things where […]

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Something that had until recently passed me by was that the New York Times has stopped charging for access to their website. Most of the site will now be open to the public without a subscription, including the majority of the archives section. The site will now be funded by advertising, an option that, since […]

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According to New Media Age, Tesco are revamping Tesco.com, using “social media as the key driver to replicate the in-store experience”.
Did I miss a meeting? Has anyone been to a Tesco recently? The “in-store experience” is akin to the Tower of London before it was a tourist attraction. Supermarkets are horrible places, where people go […]

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I’ve been toying for a while about what I actually think Web2.0 and all that marketing nonsense actually means and how it affects people, and given the job I do, how it affects business, and how it can be used by business.
My reaction has always been that “web2.0″ is a marketing phrase that clouds the […]

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Smashing Magazine is a great new intenet-based magazine about website design and technology that I think indicates a future trend in online behaviour. Smashing is regularly updated, containing information gleaned from around the web alongside quality editorial. It also makes certain articles it publishes available via pdf to download, print and read when away from […]

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