My dad used to work for the Fibreglass division of Pilkington. His business cards were made out of glass fibre. They were well cool. My mate Mark runs Sandstorm Kenya. His business cards are made out of leather. If anything they’re a little bit cooler. These business cards leathers are …
Thanks to Neil Perkin for curating another highly topical, highly relevant, highly provocative Firestarters event on behalf of Google. And thanks to Mel Exon, Martin Bailie and James Caig for providing said provocation by way of three alternative views on The New Operating System For Agencies. This is not a …
Kevin Kelly’s post on the Technium blog has just taken over my Friday evening. It includes a link to the Google Ngram viewer. The what? The Google/University Consortium has digitised over 15 million books so far, and the Ngram viewer allows you to investigate the frequency of use of various …
Three blog posts continually catch my eye for the level of ongoing traffic they pull into this blog via search engines. What Spongebob Squarepants can teach us about modern ideas and capturing the imagination. This post was published on April 28, 2011. The graph above shows daily page views since …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDaSvRO9xA&] This Lancashireman is struggling to compete with the extreme, and extremely competitive, privations described by the four Yorkshiremen. Working a twelve hour overnight shift in the (now defunct) Rathbone’s Bakery in Wigan may not be as bad as licking a motorway clean before breakfast, but it felt pretty close …
What does it mean if you include your employer’s brand in your Twitter name? Whoa! Let’s back up and rephrase that highly assumptive opening sentence. What does it mean if you include your employer’s brand in the name of a Twitter profile operated by you? In other words, can a …
A couple of summers ago I got chatting to a guy in the queue to pick up a hire car at Palma airport. Turned out he was an independent cheesemaker from Devon. We nattered for a while in the air-conditioned office whilst our respective families melted in the Majorcan heat …
My kids are tripping nostalgically on Tamagotchis. And they’re not the only ones. The reason that my kids are tripping (nostalgically) is that they found out that lots of other kids like them are too (tripping) (nostalgically) (on Facebook). So, just like “we” used to trip nostalgically in the high …
Process increasingly gets in the way of problem solving. Thus spake John Willshire, Chief Innovation Officer at PHD, at last night’s excellent Firestarters event. The event was generously hosted by Google and masterfully curated by Neil Perkin. John will no doubt post his slides in due course, and I’ll link …
Those responsible for various recent super injunctions might well be asking themselves this question. And I suspect that a “certain Premiership football player” will have no doubt whatsoever that there is such a thing as bad PR. There certainly appears to be such a thing as bad PR advice from …
