Category Archives: communication

Images and words View Comments

Here is a talk I gave the other day to some business folks which kinda distils a lot of the things I find interesting around some key themes.  It’s called “web futures: consumer behaviours and business opportunities”. Be nice to get your thoughts on it.  

In a World View Comments

I like Wordle. Thought this was a nice way to highlight the “ideaological cleavage” between Brown and Miliband from the Labour Party Conference this week. They don’t agree on much except for “world”… Can you tell which is which?

Janus-faced View Comments

This is one of my favourite ads. ‘Ad’ doesn’t really do it justice.  It’s one minute of film. One of the reasons I think it works is because they’ve actually folded the perceived negative aspects of gaming such as violence and sex into positive virtues of life, experience and learning.  In other words it ain’t [...]

Music Moves Place View Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 3 accounts for 20 percent of UK digital music sales, originally uploaded by lynetter. Lynetter keeps up the good work finding that 3 accounts for 20% of all UK digital music sales, second only [...]

Utility View Comments

My Tool Box April 2006, originally uploaded by geishaboy500.Link: marktd: Brands 2.0: Branded Utility – Jack Cheng There seems to be a belated realisation that comms planning is all well and good but you need to have something decent to communicate and that over time it gets harder and harder to be interesting and communicate [...]

Mail order View Comments

mail order, originally uploaded by JamesB. My uncle has been selling cloth by mail order catalogue now for over thirty years.  the operation is a might slimmer now that it was all that time ago, as is he. He’s retiring soon.   For those thirty plus years though he’s managed to sell cloth by text alone.  [...]

An accountant without a personality View Comments

One of the most inspired presentations I’ve ever heard on IT Conversations by Jospeh Chamie, Director of Population at the UN.   It’s just a glorious lesson in how to engage an audience by the Civil Service equivalent of Woody Allen. Via R-R-R-Russell.