I was digging through the internet last night looking for interesting videos on the digital world and stumbled across this mental Romanian video from a few years back featuring Faris Yakob and Iain Tait! It’s a pretty good interview (bar the incredibly loud sound effects between scenes) and Iain makes some interesting points about where [...]
Social media, and in particular, social networks, are a mental mess of ‘big data‘. Photos, text, links, videos, podcasts, FarmVille – our online lives have become busy to say the least. When we originally signed up to the internet (bad terminology) we looked for people that we already knew (from real life) and people that [...]
Google knows all about you. Yeah right, you know this, but do you know how much? It knows how many times you’ve been rick-rolled (YouTube), it knows that you have an unhealthy obsession with Gogol (Google Books), that you spend your working day flicking between 4Chan and textsfromlastnight (Chrome) and that you don’t read any [...]
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February 8, 2010 View CommentsI’ve come straight from reading a post on MediaBistro about Alex Bogusky being promoted and retiring at the same time – those crazy advertising kids! But something that Mr Bogusky said really resonated with me, he said; “I had one seemingly impossible dream when I started in advertising and that was to leave the industry [...]
This is why; because eventually it could take over our whole lives… So this is why Keiichi Matsuda must never be left alone with a laptop. Or else the world could become a crazy explosion of consumerism, architecture and that thing every marketeer is trying to find budget for at the moment augmented reality. Augmented [...]
I attended the excellent NMK online PR debate last night and came away with plenty to think about. Other than the Q&A session at which point those posing questions became either; a) guarded or b) salesy (it must’ve felt like a shark tank for the one client that attended), the debate covered a lot of [...]
So I had my geekiest moment last night. An epiphany of geek if you will… I went to bed relatively early after having a pretty rough day, and did the final check of email and twitter and I caught eye of a fist fight little debate that was just winding up on Twitter involving Wadds, [...]
I’m not really sure if I’m young enough to be classified as a ‘Digital Native’ but I’m going to play the ignorance card and say ‘yes, yes I am a digital native’. I wanted to try and give you my definition, which may not make much sense, or conveniently agree with more popular and more [...]