I won’t go on about the wonders of the remix culture as smarter people had done it already (watch Faris and Lessig) What strikes me every time I come across a new cracking Hitler mash-up (there are hundreds of them now and they are cross cultural and cross communal) is the power of non-verbal communications. [...]
I’m so bored with social media wearisome chatter I just got a rather daft idea for a new reality TV (if you’re not familiar with I’m a celebrity get me out of here look here) Take 15 uber annoying social media specialists for a series of daunting social media tasks: 1. To test their community [...]
Here is an idea that’s been pestering my mind for a couple of weeks now. It is far from being fully thought through and it might be complete rubbish but I think there is pinch of potential in this half-baked thought so your suggestions and feedback are hugely appreciated. The idea comes from both active [...]
As I drove my wife and baby daughter this early morning to Heathrow airport (using the awesomesque Streetcar) I was depressingly lamenting how fairly weak and quite is the civil protest against the third runway at Heathrow. I was searching online for a growing grassroots movements and the only thing I’ve found was fragmented activity [...]
Probably both and neither. I’m talking of course about the most recent Twittersphere common mantra, i.e. is twitter killing blogging? Please allow me to make some random observations as well 1. Recent social-technological developments and trends prove time and again that we are suckers for dense, ambient, immediate communication. The instant the reply/feedback the better. [...]
First, le big sigh This little project has been in the oven for a while but due to workload and babyload it’s been finally released and I’m well excited about it. It’s an idea I worked on with the lovely Nicky who actually hand-made this beautiful book (no, really – binding, screen-printing and stuff). We [...]
The interweb is flooded with some absolutely amazing conference presentation videos, I’m starting to believe that the only reasons for you to pay some good money and go to a conference today is for the sake of personal contact, the social gathering and networking (Gd, how i hate this word) which are as valuable as [...]
Following on from the myth of influencers post, perhaps the biggest myth of social media is what you can call the false causality belief. Probably oversimplification and/or misinterpretation of the Cluetrain Manifesto that brought us the idea of marketing as conversation, I hear/read too many people saying something along the lines of ‘brands should use [...]
Have you ever got an email / phone call from a random advertising creative director asking you to watch their new TV ad and ask your mates to watch it as well? Probably not. Perhaps it’s because ‘digital’ or social media marketing still needs to prove itself, or maybe it’s because we ‘live’ the conversation [...]
Unless you’ve been on the moon last week (or 50ft under waiting for the end of the world) you must have read this thoughtful meditation from NYT magazine on Twitter, Facebook, ambient intimacy and so called awareness tools. It’s a good read, especially for people who don’t use these tools. The article tells the story [...]