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My riff on Ecko’s ball

It took me a while to form my opinion on Marc Ecko’s latest stunt. At first I was annoyed but thats just my anti-PR reflex, then I thought it’s fairly meaningless but slowly realize how clever is this guy and that my initial annoyance has to do with (a) my anti-PR reflex, (b) the fact [...]

Music album of the week

Sorry for being quite here for a while…not much to say and quite a lot of work so bear with me….in the meantime go get this lovely mellow, dreamy, trippy and soulful debut album from Little Dragon. It’s pure trip-pop bliss. And the cover is lovely as well:

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genuis or crap?

I went down Brick Lane on a lunch break to shop for a reading book where I saw this Banksy book at the window. Now take a look at the red sticker on the book cover. It made me smile as this is how I sometimes think about him. So I thought that’s a good [...]

I communicate, therfore I am

Cogito Ergo Sum
It’s difficult to think of other philosophical insight that so powerfully shaped the course of western knowledge and culture. For more than 350 years the Cartesian self, characterized in its reflective activities and essential isolation from the world about which it reflect has shaped both folk and academic thinking about cognition and self-knowledge. [...]

wouldn’t it be nice

i happen to rent a car once a year or less usually when away on hols’ or something and it’s usually the same “user journey”:
google >> comparing 2-4 sites >>> find best deal & book >>>> get confirmation via email.
simple & straightforward - not looking for anything but decent deal. and i never bookmark the [...]

social media for peace: your help needed

Dear friends and fellow bloggers,
I really need your input on this one (and I’ll try to make a long story short….)
I might have an opportunity (and a budget) to finally do something online with my PhD thesis. I’ve been shortlisted for an EU prize that aim to help young researchers to publish/communicate their work to [...]

wag the long tail (of fashion)

ever had an item of clothing (like shoes or jeans etc) that you loved sooo much and been ridiculesly attached to, that when they started to get worn out you deeply regretted that you didn’t buy at least 5 pairs of them so you can have them for life? (and then wore them ’til [...]

splashmob

one of the great and at the same time most frustrating things in working in digital is that every once in a while you come across some brilliant idea that is completely ‘grassroots’ (or user generated as they say in webland), an idea that brands, in this age of experience and participative marketing, would die [...]

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Good stuff for kids

Anorak is a new funky kids magazine published by Cathy, a colleague at POKE. It is full of contemporary illustrators goodies for kids and the accompanied website invites children to review, comment etc. Anorak’s main philosophy is to encourage children to make their own decisions and to amplify their voices. It has at [...]

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