Recently readOn my way out to the Eagle Bar Diner last night, I was chuffed to see Hugh’s cartoons on the BBC 6 O’clock News as they did a big story on the Threshers deal. (Short version: Hugh and the guys at Stormhoek blogged a voucher for 40 per cent off all alcohol purchases from Threshers. […]
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Mobile expert/influencer Tomi Ahonen has chipped in on the debate I started here when I noted Tomi’s contention that Apple’s market share of the portable mp3 player market is less than 20 per cent. Tomi’s remarks and data do illustrate just how insular our views of how ‘people’ do things can be. Some highlights:
The first […]
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“The key part of Web 2.0 is that there is something about these new tools that enable new practices of collaboration,” said John Seely Brown, a consultant and former chief scientist of Xerox.”
Heh. Yeah, “something about them”. Adriana notes in her Furl feed:
Not hard to work out what it is.. the focus on the individual, […]
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WARNING: This post wanders a bit (more than usual).
One of the best things about last night’s party was that I saw so many people I like and respect having what seemed to be interesting conversations with one another. I can’t tell you how much I love that. Can you imagine being a newbie to the […]
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Shel Israel, co-author of Naked Conversations, will be throwing a party in San Francisco for me and Adriana just days after we throw one for him in London. Any Bay Area people who want to come along on June 13th, please leave a comment at Shel’s blog or send him an email. (Hell, send me […]
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Note to self: Blog next week about lunch yesterday with the author of The London Gazetteer, who also maintains the astonishingly comprehensive Hidden London website. His name’s Russ Willey and he used to be the boss of me, back when we worked for a Swiss Life subsidiary. If you’re at all interested in London, you […]
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I just got my notes on Wednesday’s VNU Blogs & Social Media Forum back (thanks, Adriana!). They’re not comprehensive, because there were points when I just wanted to listen and not write. Where no quotation marks are used or I am not obviously relating a point made by a specific person, the words are reflective […]
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My decision to concentrate on positive people/situations and let negative relationships/situations die of neglect has been a good one. If nothing else, it has left me continually gobsmacked by how much support I receive from so many positive people. Not all of them are necessarily friends (my definition of friendship being, I hope, not that […]
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Latitude, the search engine marketing company where I’ve been head of marketing since last June, was today named the fastest growing media company in the UK and Ireland. Sweet.
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I don’t mention my work much here, but over at the Latitude search engine marketing website, Dylan (our CEO) and Richard (our COO) are liveblogging from SES in New York. It’s especially fun seeing that Dylan is such a natural blogger, such an easily amusing writer. Don’t worry, Chairman Dyl, we’ll all still fear you […]
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Yesterday morning at around 2.30 AM, the Engagement Alliance was born.
It’s amazing what you can get done with the help of a fantastically talented designer and techie. The one in my life, who I use constantly for Latitude work (both online and print), is Henry St Luc of headsocks.net. I’ve dealt with Henry for nearly […]
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I used to work with the Big Blog Company, and now the demand for their services is so high that they need to make several key technical and training hires. I totally take some credit for that need (only some, though). Apply today!
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1) There’s nobody to look nice for, so you don’t.
2) There’s nobody to smell nice for, so you don’t.
3) The new neighbours’ hourly “Fun with Drills” routine is even less charming on weekdays.
4) Not only are you sat at your desk when you should be commuting, you’re sat at your desk when you should […]
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The lack of posts here is due to the fact that my brain is being eaten alive by all things search. It’s a good thing, overall, but not in terms of updating this blog.
I was telling Jim Treacher last night about getting lost with my work boys in Spain last week, at 2.30 AM, […]
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