Next Friday – October 14th – I'm speaking at the Emerging Technology in Advertising event in Toronto.  I'm going to talk about the challenges and opportunities that 'technology' forces on the advertising industry, and media more broadly, and then also some of the things we've learned building Spies&Assassins – the creative technology shop –…

SYSTEMS THINKING: Lessons From The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook by Senge, Kleiker, Roberts, Ross and Smith View more presentations from Joanna Beltowska This deck from some nice people at Undercurrent highlights some elements of systems thinking that I like. As I've written before – systems architecture is one of the big challenges we face in an ever…

The full blown site for the BMW ActiveE launched today with this video that builds on the thinking from the BMW Documentaries and EVolve app and dashboard.  We're looking for a few good Electronauts. 

September is Prostate Cancer Awareness month. [did you know?] As I've said before, I think using humor to communicate very serious subjects is powerful. People have a tendency to ignore things that they don't want to think about.  Not knowing, whilst the opposite of actually helping, feels somehow more comfortable than finding out and knowing…

50/50: Make or Break from 5050good on Vimeo. I've been back in Europe for a while sorting out life logisitcs and visas and that.  This is unlikely to be of much interest to you but it reminded me that the world out there is, well, out there. The American newsmedia is famously solipsistic – international…

Summer is flying by us like a warm breeze stimulating windchimes into noisy ecstasy and I find myself somewhat uninspired to blog, to be honest. The Romans called these the Dog Days, marked by 'dull lack of progress'.  One should never admit such things I imagine, but I'm usually of the mentality that being frank…

We quietly launched the #mobilegallery last night to friends and family. [by WE I mean the smart lovely people that are listed above who aren't me – they did everything.]  In celebration of the awesomeness of Instagram, and to take that social stream back into the real world, with real prints, in frames. And people…

 As I've mentioned before, I like robots.  [I have a Roomba. It's awesome.] This is probably why I enjoyed this spot. But I especially like the fact that there is an extended version on the 'tube.  With lasers.  Shouldn't all ads do that? Not the lasers bit. Media space isn't scarce online – so the…

Mobile Trends – June 2011 – Trending The Future View more presentations from space150 A while back my mate Jake sent me this deck he had whipped up – and jolly good it is too.  It syncs up nicely with my last few posts about proximity and context and that – and contains lots of…

I developed some of the thinking from the last couple of posts and expanded it for the nice people at Canvas8 into a report. Proximimty is still a virtue, and a few more examples bring that to life, includin, Zaarly, Neighbourgoods and Whipcar, all of which use proximity to facilate sales, renting or sharing. It…