Genius Steals
talent imitates, Faris writes
Year: 2007
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But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!" See you next year.
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The awesome people at Contagious have delivered their festive greetings this year in the useful form of a round up of everything cool that happened this year, in the Most Contagious / 2007. It is most excellent. Ahem. As you and I know, it’s technology that drives change and, as Contagious points out, 2007 was…
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I feel like I should have known about this before, but I don’t think I did. P&G’s Connect + Develop programme [interesting that they didn’t use the ampersand for C+D…or perhaps it’s not], is an open invitation to take ideas into P&G, a bit like Dell’s Ideastorm but the P&G scope is a bit wider…
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When VOIP first hit the bottom of the hype cycle, I had a bunch of conversations knelling the death of the mobile network. It was a pretty simple thought: peer to peer VOIP is free over the internet. So, if you had a handset that was WiFi enabled with a VOIP client installed, you could…
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Scamp! Congratulations dude! TIGS shall remain proudly sesquipedalian.
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Most UGC ‘please make us an ad’ campaigns are pretty misguided. Whilst I’m all about the culture of participation, the idea that making films is the apotheosis of creativity and thus the core engagement substrate for growing a bed of brand advocates is probably a reflection of myopia rather than progression. Not everyone wants to…
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Content and media are weird words. They are the antonymic binary stars that all our industries circle around, feeding of the energy they pump out into culture. They don't really exist without each other. Even in the very specific sense in which we use the words, they are both defined by what they are not.…
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Perhaps things only become culturally significant once they’ve been re-appropriated. The Christmas discount [e] voucher surfaced last winter, and made some news, and this year there has been a flurry of social coupons. Then there was the hoax – a 60% off Gap voucher – and now we have this cheeky little spoof from the…
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You’d think that Facebook, of all people, oops sorry I mean brands, would get always being in beta and could add a dash of charm to their ‘we’re down’ page. I’m increasingly coming to feel that charm is a crucial element to communication in today’s flat world. The internet disrupts traditional notions of authority, government…
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[The man himself: Henry Jenkins] I’ve jotted down a few highlights from the Futures of Entertainment 2 conference at MIT for Contagious Magazine, which you can read here. The event was completely awesome – there was so many truly inspiring people there. [I was totally overwhelmed – many thanks for the invite!] It was recorded…