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Category: digital

Crossing the chasm (or Big brands that get it)

Recently I found myself thinking about the noisy minority of early adopters and their (not always) latent snobbery and cult or new news. What really makes me tick these days are big brands that get it. It so easy to ‘get it’ when you’re small, young business/brand but somehow the bigger you are the harder [...]

2010: Interesting or shit? Probably both.

This is NOT a ‘trends in digital’ kind of post. It’s just a quick observation on the state of the industry. So what can we expect from 2010? Not much I’m afraid. It seems like 2009 was the year that the industry really started to contract (it started before, of course, but became much more [...]

Notes on The Stream(s) experiment

Couple of weeks ago I started a little experiment to test the new hype and obsession with the Stream Theory. Quick reminder: The next phase of media, I’ve been thinking, will be after the page and after the site. Media can’t expect us to go to it all the time. Media has to come to [...]

My top things and stuff of 2009

This is just me. OK? For all categories- in no particular order Best albums of the year 1. The phenomenal handclap band – S/T 2. Fontän – Winterhwila 3. Rone – Spanish breakfast 4. JJ – JJ no 2 5. The XX -S/T 6. Jana Hunter – There’s no home 7. Memory Tapes – Seek [...]

So clever x 2

Don’t know what about you but I can get fairly irritated at the odd tube station that doesn’t have the next train display – I don’t mind waiting, it’s part of life, I just hate not knowing how long I have to wait… I’m therefore a sucker for everything that makes your ‘dead time’ moments [...]

I Want. I have

I’m loving the work of Christine and Justin, a couple from New York that run this ongoing online gallery / project . “Each painting shows one thing we want, and sells for the price of the real item. So you can buy A Slice of Pepperoni for $3.00 or Dinner at Nobu for $152.00. When [...]

Notes on Streams + 2 weeks experiment

So streams are the new darling. So says Twitter. There is something very seductive in the evolution of streams as well as the evolution of the discourse around streams. It’s fallacy is the usual early-adopters twitter-centric outlook that tends to categorically ditch the old world and embrace the new but if you read through the [...]

One trend in digital we should all try to avoid in 2010

It’s this time of the year… New year’s trends lists are the currency of the moment, and every blogger and his sister compile a knowledgeable trends list for 2010. The world doesn’t really need another one from me. So instead I’d like to talk about one trend which we should try to avoid in the [...]

In case you missed it

Just in case this piece of sheer genius didn’t make it to your stream yet… Tokujin Yoshioka: Maison Hermès window display This one goes straight to “damn i with i’d think about it” + “inspiration” lists Enjoy

Pet Shop Boys – Seven Days of Christmas

Go on and play…