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5 things you shouldn’t miss: the wonder of 1 second films, recycling digital music and more
Welcome to the latest in our monthly collection of five links that you shouldn’t miss. The 1 second film festival http://bit.ly/sMaYh0 Think you can’t say much in one second? Think again with these entries from Montblanc’s 1 second film festival, a clever bit of content marketing from the firm that sells high-end watches amongst other products. [...]
United Breaks Guitars and strikes a chord on social media
Dave Carroll's sing song customer complaint about United Airlines has become a staple example, understandably so given the catchy tune, fun video and huge press coverage it got. But over two years on from it catching our attention, what are the real lessons from Dave Carroll's broken Taylor guitar?
The hypocrisy of demanding social media ROI calculations
Short, provocative and highly relevant – an excellent clip from David Meerman Scott about measuring the ROI of social media work: Hat-tip: Stuart Bruce
Good news on open data in the Autumn Statement
In amongst all the headline economic news, there was a round of good news about opening up government data, detailed in a 13-page Cabinet Office document. It includes this on transport data: Train and bus data – The Government will work with the transport industry to make available by April 2012 timetable and real-time train [...]
Is this the best book ever written?
Odd, bizarre, unexpected and yet brilliantly practical with a significant impact on the real world. You never know what is going to happen next, with all sorts of twists and turns along the way. I defy anyone to predict how it will end. Oh, you want to know the title? Why, it’s A Million Random [...]
The French want to steal your time!
Just thought I’d offer up a headline suggestion for any tabloid journalist looking to write up this story. Alternatively, for the more highbrow, how about: International talks reduce differences of temporal opinion to just 1 second; sources cautiously hopeful of a deal.
The Acta Diurna, or how the Romans had an internet-savvy approach to information
Before the internet, before computers, before even electricity, the Romans had a communications technology that showed an understanding of how to get the right information into the right hands which is still highly applicable to the online world. The Acta Diurna were daily public notices, posted up in public locations around Rome. Lesson one – [...]
5 things you shouldn’t miss: internet trends, exciting electric bulbs, clevers ads and more
Welcome to the latest in our monthly collection of five weblinks that you shouldn’t miss. Mary Meeker’s 2011 Internet Trends presentation http://bizt.ag/t8B5Zn Ignore the sin against English which is the use of the so-called word “globality” and plough on to the data, which contains many useful insights. How to make electric bulbs interesting http://bizt.ag/Rb49Pg How to turn [...]
Idiots! Idiots! You’re all idiots!
I know I shouldn’t. And thankfully, I haven’ yet. But just sometimes I’m tempted to walk into a local council communications department and shout, “Idiots! Idiots! You’re all idiots!”. Here is why, courtesy of a short speech I gave on the fringe of the last Liberal Democrat conference: (By the way, do watch to the [...]
Why you should feed the trolls
“Do not feed the trolls” This is probably the longest lived and most widely quoted piece of advice when it comes to online discussions. It is advice that is presented as sure and true. And after all, given how long-standing and popular the advice is, isn’t that a sign of its quality? Well, that it [...]
