Context is one of the most important things a planner or anyone else trying to look for some truth, should endeavour to understand. Context enables you to recognise how things operate and how they are linked or disconnected from each other, in effect it is the glue that binds together all the different sources and [...]
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Context Collapse
Posted in digital, planning, thoughts on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A site / link a day = Twitter usefulness
Posted in digital on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve never been a huge fan of Twitter, mainly for the same reasons Asi blogged about a while ago… It wasn’t for me! I suscribed to a bunch of friends feeds though and sometimes I discovered some interesting nuggets! Until yesterday I decided to use my Twitter feed with the following idea: one site / [...]
Internet issues!
Posted in digital on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ted Parker and Matt Stone, South Park creators, have a real talent to find interesting cultural patterns and write great episodes about them. They have done it again with this episode called ‘Over Logging’. (Watch it above) “On last night’s South Park, disaster struck. The Internet disappeared. Stan’s father couldn’t look at porn! His mom [...]
Duke T-shirts
Posted in digital, planning, t-shirt of the week on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To celebrate the new logo, the lovely guys from Duke Paris have created some T-shirts. Have a look at them below. Other slogans include: ‘Ich bin ein Duker’, ‘Spiderman is the best webdesigner’ and ‘Internet killed the video star’! We are also looking for a mid-weight planner in London, so if you think Duke could [...]
How fast are you?
Posted in cool stuff, digital, random on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You’ve always wanted to know if you could type faster than your colleagues/friends? Now there is a way to stop these never ending debates: SpeedTest! You choose your language and have one minute to type as many words as possible! Here is my result below; I guess it won’t be too hard to beat me [...]
Marketing is in the Eye of the Beholder
Posted in books, digital on July 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
[This is a tag cloud of my contribution - Via Wordle] The Age Of Conversation author list has been released for the 2008 edition. 237 bloggers are participating this year and I am truly exited about the whole thing! As I didn’t share my subject on my previous posts, here is my title: “Marketing is [...]
When blog targeting goes wrong
Posted in digital, random on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I received this email/spam (delete were appropriate) the other day. I just love the way they totally missed the point… It made me laugh!
Brokeback mashups
Posted in digital, random on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It all started with Brokeback to the future in 2006, remember? The video has nearly 5 millions views on Youtube. This is one of the thing I like the most about the Internet, how people are easily creating their own experiences and series from a successful hit. Basically, since the Brokeback to the future video, [...]
How little do we read?
Posted in books, digital, thoughts on June 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After the article about the ‘books You Haven’t Read’, here is another one about the Internet content you haven’t read either! A recent study from Jacob Nielsen demonstrates that users are reading on average only 20% of the words on a visit. They are indeed more likely to scan the text in order to find [...]
“Introducing books”
Posted in books, digital, planning, thoughts on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I bought the Postmodernism a graphic guide to cutting-edge thinking book the other day and it is a very good read. The cartoon format of the book is great for planners as it gives you a multitude of quotes, visualisations and material to use for future presentations! You can find a few visuals from the [...]





