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Advertising as social object
My wife was telling me something funny this morning. Our son is 5, and has just started his second year at school. They start doing PE properly this year, and the school was a bit late telling everyone...
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Social Practice +1
That’s +1 in the Google sense, obviously. I wouldn’t suggest I could improve on what Pats McDonald posted on Friday. It’s a brilliant piece over at The Social Practice on how Google+ might be “a trojan...
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The future of planning: Wedding Planning
I’m reading a book called Grouped. As a result I’ve decided that the future of planning is Wedding Planning. We should all become Wedding Planners from here on in. I don’t mean we should create huge...
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Polemic, metaphor and Firestarters 5
Amazing talk from Cory Doctorow at this week’s Firestarters. Cory covered a head-spinning amout of ground, at a dizzying pace. His theme: the impending ‘war on general computing’. His premise: that...
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Not interesting, but interested
A guy I used to worked with gave me a real shock once. When it came to presenting he was one of the most natural performers I’ve ever seen. A relatively senior guy at the agency, he was especially...
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Communities and cake stalls
It was our son’s school fete this last weekend. My wife helped run the cake stall. Some friends who saw this picture on Instagram asked me whether she’d made all of the cakes. Which, not least because...
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The bottom half of culture
“Complete assimilation really means complete acceptance. The immigrant who is completely assimilated has lost the faculty of adding whatever is special about himself to his country; for any artist,...
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Orwell, Wigan Pier and the new normal
Talking once with a miner I asked him when the housing shortage first became acute in his district. He answered, “When were told about it.” – George Orwell, The Road To Wigan Pier We think and act...
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Lessons from real-life
On Monday I posted for the first time in a while. It was about a small weekend news item – Benedict Cumberbatch and his paparazzi stunt. It had an amazing effect: by 11 the blog had received 4x the...
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TwitterxTV
I went to a Twitter event last night called #TwitterxTV. This is the write-up I posted on our agency group’s intranet. Last night Twitter revealed to UK agencies and advertisers new opportunities...
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