Interesting Snippets

Realtime taps into consciousness - Search taps into memory

online readers compose their own beginning middle end

growing up assuming you can publish is going to make people different

Image from Flickr CC www.flickr.com/photos/b-tal/1170 37943/ thanks to B Tal. This phrase was...

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Image from Flickr CC www.flickr.com/photos/ecstaticis t/322023870/ thanks to ecstaticist. The idea...

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Image from Flickr CC www.flickr.com/photos/ourcommon/ 2455614297/ thanks to ourcommon. Quote is...

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in quarter of homes only one person can control technology

if the news is that important it will find me

paid vs earned media - on internet is fair fight

I’m only surprised it's not more common. :-) Stat comes from a Logitech survey reported back...

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Uploaded on Apr 27, 2008

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I love this quote. It apparently was uttered in a focus group by a college student, and I find it...

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This paraphrased quote comes from a March Ad Age article and is attributed to Matt Freeman, head of...

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wikipedia is like a community leaf raking project

consumers treat advertising like trains

i blame the public - the death of empathy

This quote is slightly paraphrased but comes from a great recent article in The Guardian about...

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Uploaded on Apr 13, 2008

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At my old agency we used to sometimes talk about “the immunised consumer”. The point we were trying...

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This quote is extracted from a column India Knight wrote in The Times, that I found...

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Uploaded on Dec 9, 2007

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web shows what we have chosen to care about

proprietary platforms are like ice cubes

Interesting Snippets: the book

I’ve always been fascinated by efforts to map cyberspace… most maps seem to focus on the physical...

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Uploaded on Dec 9, 2007

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I really like this analogy. It touches on an interesting debate too… although I personally...

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Uploaded on Nov 4, 2007

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Ta da... after a stupidly long delay, finally the book is ready. :-) Ironically the hold up...

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Uploaded on Oct 25, 2007

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we've outsourced brain functions to silicon

indigenous content - created by the natives

to change is difficult but not to change is fatal

No I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth, just been really busy. During the week with work...

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Hello, I’m back. :-) For various reasons I’ve decided to take a new approach to this set. I’ll...

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Photo from Flickr CC thanks to Angel D www.flickr.com/photos/asaltandoe lcielo/103553891/ This is...

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Uploaded on Jul 27, 2007

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decisive factor is not how we create but how we consume

its a constant surprise to anyone over 30 that large parts of life can end up online

if it were a country myspace would be ahead of russia

I’ve come close to buying the book “Cult of the Amateur” a few times now, but have shied away as I...

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There was a great article a few months back in New York magazine which I’ve only just...

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Comparisons like this really put things into scale. This is an update on a previous...

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