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Working for the Underdog

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Photo by TCM Hitch­hiker/Jason Jerde
The fol­low­ing is the per­sonal opin­ion of myself and is not a formal state­ment nor pos­i­tion of my employer
Firstly, think about news­pa­pers. They exis­ted from the 17th cen­tury until the first dec­ade of the 21st cen­tury on advert­ising. Using the money received from advert­ising, they fun­ded con­tent cre­ated by journ­al­ists and […]

Social Media. The Opera is dying, All Hail the Circus

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Photo by bootload/Peter Ren­shaw
The Opera. Stages filled with ladies singing in a gruff ger­manic or romantic lan­guage, and men pran­cing around in col­our­ful sol­dierly uni­form. Stor­ies so simple yet obscured by lan­guage; thank­fully the Play­bill™ details the plot. Plots of love lost and fam­ily betrayal, have remained unchanged in some instances for cen­tur­ies. The audience […]

Reading: Shell Global Scenarios to 2025

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Loaned to me from a stra­tegic think­ing friend, Shell Global Scen­arios is a hefty, yet easy to read ana­lysis of really big (mega-) trends over the 15 year time hori­zon.
There is lots to think about; their three forces (mar­ket incent­ives, com­munity, coercion/regulation) and how there are “two wins, one loss” out of […]

Sensationalist Titles. Journalism Fail. Advertising Win.

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Sen­sa­tion­al­ist Titles
“Router crashes blamed on Win­dows XP SP3” rings the alarm bells of Aus­tralian Per­sonal Com­puter. Thanks Dan Warne, now every owner of a router (that is, every­one con­nec­ted to the Inter­net) is going to blame SP3 for weird inter­net issues.
Does this mean there is a series bug in XP SP3? Do all routers have […]