just over a week ago I got myself on facebook and i’ve decided today to let go. i got sticky and tired. facebook is wonderful and it’s all very well put together, to the point that it’s addictive. for me, it’s like big, candy-coated cake. it was really tasty but after a short while it [...]
Note: this is not a smug rant on facebook. I’m all there, collecting friends, poking people, and joining different groups like there’s no tomorrow. So it’s more of a reflecting-out-loud: we now witness with facebook what can only be described as a massive herd moving in by their millions and i can’t help but being [...]
* [I wrote this post few months back but didn't publish it for some reason until I saw Anne I Like presentation's title at interesting 2007 and thought it would be nice to re-write and hope for some interesting input] hello nice people. It would be very difficult to pinpoint where and when this all [...]
““any utterance is a link in a very complexly organised chain of other utterances†Bakhtin was a really smart man. He argued that every piece of creative work is always inhabited and interlaced by the ‘voices’ and ‘works’ of others. I was thinking of him and Barthes and Marcus and Faris last weekend when I [...]
NOTE: [Every now and then I happen to think about something, an idea or observation, not suitable for quick blogging but something that rather needs a slower 'processing', (which you hope that once you blogged about it, it will generate an interesting conversation). And so you take your time, write a draft post only to [...]
I’ve been thinking about this for a while now. Take some ‘hot’ marketing/branding guru’s recent books like Blue Ocean Strategy , Purple Cow or ‘Zag‘, blend it with a genereous portion of ‘thought leadership’ bloggers like Hugh, Richard, or Armano and the conclusion you most likely arrived at is that we are getting closer and [...]
Last week I had to review the ways in which NGO’s and charity organisations are using web 2.0 approach and tools for their marketing communications*. I’ve used all the usual search tools but didn’t find anything interesting really. So while advancing my search, I dropped a quick email to my blog buddies Faris, Jon, David, [...]
I know that it’s like comparing apples and oranges but I’ve been thinking of this issue quite a while now and although I have more questions than answers I thought it would be nice to put my unstructured thoughts here and hope for an interesting input. Although both completely open to all, and there’s virtually [...]
About a week ago David wrote a rich and compelling post about the social psychological implications of “life 2.0â€: “We are discovering each other….We are finding out that we are not alone, there are scores of others just like us scattered throughout the globe. We can now do more than merely correspond as pen pals. [...]
1. Receipt So you go into Tesco, buy the paper and a pack of chewing-gum (£0.97) and you get your change and a piece of paper, only to either throw it immediately to the bin, if you’re a good person, or just outside at the pavement (take a look around the entrance of a supermarket [...]