As Facebook Aims at Millions of Users, Some Are Content to Sit Out. Aggregated Atoms: Little Printer. There are a couple of mega trends that have been forming for some time now. Content aggregation and curation – in a world of infinite content, brands and people need to find ways to become signals in the noise: see ATOMS from BITS – turning digital things into physical things – like the MAKERBOT [UPDATE: Tom sent me a link to this Kickstarter project for a new kind of 3D printer called PrintrBOT. which reminded me of my two previous posts on 3d printers New Virtruvians We, The Makers] BergLondon have just announced a new combination of the two: [remember – ideas are new combinations - among others] {BergLondon is a charming prototyping and invention shop in London that works with agencies and clients to concept future things.}
It has just announced the Little Printer – an aggregator/ curator that prints you out a personal daily newspaper: Influxinsights. March 26, 2014 Re-Thinking The Experience The XX are currently perfoming in one of America’s largest (55,000 sqft) and unobstructed venues, New York’s Park Avenue Armory, but they are doing it very differently. Instead of doing the bleeding obvious and peforming to multiple thousands, they are doing the inverse; in each of their... March 25, 2014 Does Your Brand Have Foresight? It doesn’t seem that long ago that foresight was the sole domain of crystal ball gazers, futurists and other assorted fortune tellers. March 23, 2014 Is Social Media Memorable? The best ad agencies belong to a group of cultural storytellers that includes those who create great dramatic TV shows and movies. March 14, 2014 The Realities for Today’s CMOs- Thoughts from The Economist’s The BigRethink The Economist’s The Big ReThink marketing conference provided a reminder, as if we needed one that things are changing radically in the marketing world.
March 6, 2014 March 3, 2014 Post, Post-Modern Branding and Lego March 1, 2014. Little Printer. 30 gifts to 30 strangers in Sydney. L'affaire DSK et les réseaux sociaux ont tué le off. L'affaire DSK a fait une victime collatérale: le off. Avant le scandale, plusieurs rédactions (Marianne, Le Nouvel Observateur et Libération) avaient rencontré le directeur général du Fonds monétaire international lors de ses derniers passages à Paris. Il parlait librement, à condition que tout reste secret. On comprend pourquoi: Dominique Strauss-Kahn se montrait très clair, alors que son statut le condamnait au silence. Il serait candidat, Martine Aubry était d'accord, il ne doutait quasi pas de sa victoire, à la primaire socialiste et à la présidentielle tout court.
Tout était off: les journalistes n'avaient pas le droit de citer leur interlocuteur, ni même d'utiliser indirectement ses propos. Une fois DSK arrêté et a priori empêché de concourir, les journalistes de Libération se sont sentis déliés de leur engagement. Autant d'arrangements que d'hommes politiques Certains politiques font un usage jubilatoire de cette zone grise de l'information. "Amis pédophiles, à demain ! "