Symmetry from Everynone on Vimeo. I went to the Vimeo awards last night, thanks to a very kind invitation, and it was lovely. Beardyman and Reggie Watts duelled as beatboxers and entertainers against a backdrop of projection mapped visuals [If you don't know them – have a look, they are both awesome and very funny] …

Brand / Belief from Faris Yakob This is how I've been thinking about things lately.  [I wondered if I could post something and not write any words at all. Turns out: no.]  http://b.scorecardresearch.com/beacon.js?c1=7&c2=7400849&c3=1&c4=&c5=&c6= http://b.scorecardresearch.com/beacon.js?c1=7&c2=7400849&c3=1&c4=&c5=&c6=

  My lovely mate Gabby is the editor of Little Black Book. While she is on vacation she asked me to guest edit, so I got to write the editor's letter WORD thing. Since I was ghostwriting, I thought I would write about content, which is an increasing part of what we do, since it's…

View more presentations from John V Willshire Wilsh has just posted this excellent deck. You should read it. Some it flows nicely from some of the thinking in the post below about opening up user data to users to help users help you, marketing as enablement, not image, which was pleasing. But is far more…

[Source: Fish2000] In the wake of the Nike Fuelband launching, it seemed a good time to publish this paper I wrote for Canvas8 in its entirety.  Precis [not part of original paper]  The Hawthorne Effect is a much quoted..effect…about observation changing behavior. It comes from a productivity experiment run in 1920s at a factory called the…

A thing I wrote for the PSFK magazine – available here. PDF here: Download Need to Know PSFK Magazine Faris On Creative Processes NEW [Title of this post is stolen from Homer the Heretic, who, it turns out, lives in Oregon.] 

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/benterrett/7041509709/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Putting the public [user] first, in delivering digital public services. Digital by Default Putting Users First Learning from the Journey Building a Network of Trust Moving Barriers Aside Creating an Environment for Technology Leaders to Flourish Don't Do Everything Yourself (You Can't) It sounds delightful, doesn't it? An open government with clearly stated principles?…

The entries have been culled down to the top 30 in our very short film festival for BMW.  That means, since they are all 5.9 seconds long, you could watch them all in 2.95 minutes. [Assuming perfect bandwidth and very fast clicking…tell you what round it up, say 3 minutes.] In a world of diminished…

Next week I'm in Sydney doing the opening keynote at teh awesome Creative Circus conference, where I shall be talking about awesomeness and its importance in world driven by consumer controlled media. I'm also doing a 4-part workshop 'Masterclass', with @RosieSiman, under the Genius Steals banner, where we wil be looking at a structured theory…