Some thoughtful reading from this morning – time spent trying to wash from my mouth the bitter taste of ABC’s two-hour homage to Milton by way of Coppola-in-the-jungle ((I am referring, of course, to last evening’s LOST season premiere))…all to Aloe Blacc’s terrific Shine Through:
Published on February 3, 2010 3:45 pm.
Filed under: Ephemera, Notes on Things Seen Tags: conversation, crowdsourcing, customer demand, designers, economics, education, evolution, institutions, narratives, redesign process, restraints
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Nuisance Machines by British design student Andrew Friend are devices that provoke a reaction from users by dripping dye on their clothes, interrupting their conversations or slapping them on their heels as they walk along a corridor, as triggered in real-time by business data.
(via Dezeen » Blog Archive » Nuisance Machines by Andrew Friend)
Published on October 10, 2009 5:01 am.
Filed under: Notes on Things Seen, People and Devices Tags: business data, conversation, real time
From Valeria Maltoni’s interview with Geoff Livingston this week on Conversation Agent:
Social media had an opportunity to make more companies accountable, but by and large, companies are evading this call to responsibility. I question whether social in corporate America can get the job done, and instead am starting to look at other ways to affect [...]
Published on September 11, 2009 4:09 pm.
Filed under: People and Brands Tags: accountability, conversation, corporate america, geoff livingston, Social Media, societal change, valeria maltoni
There are some really intriguing underpinnings of an infrastructure meme at the moment, which I’ll attempt to coalesce around some ongoing social media trends. Please bear with me:
Deepak Kumar, a consultant with the ICFAI Journal of Infrastructure, outlines the distinctions between ‘hard infrastructure’ and ’soft infrastructure’ in these terms1:
(The) infrastructure sector is divided into hard [...]
Published on March 17, 2009 5:14 pm.
Filed under: People and Brands, Things I Have Written Tags: Braess Paradox, Burton Matrix, conversation, Dunbar's Number, follower, functionality, hard infrastructure, Social Media, social networks, soft infrastructure, urban planning, visualization
Three loosely-related notes on a theme:
A colleague and I were discussing this morning the relative stagnation of snowboard design in recent years. By this we meant, of course, the structural design of the boards themselves, and not the graphics (which are often fantastic to behold). Both of us are old enough to recall the swallowtail, [...]
Published on March 11, 2009 3:58 pm.
Filed under: Ephemera, Notes on Things Seen Tags: brand, conversation, energy waste, evolution, mobile phones, personal growth, power consumption, power management, relevance
Julian Cole outlines a list of common traits for cool kids – those most likely to start (or ignite) trends in the digital space:
Cool kids have a lot of friends.
Cool kids will pick up technology really fast.
Cool kids hang out with cool kids.
Cool kids can remix.
Cool kids rock at asynchronous conversation.
Cool kids meet offline.
Cool kids [...]
Published on March 9, 2009 10:40 am.
Filed under: Notes on Things Seen, People and Other People Tags: conversation, cool kids, lifestyle, platform agnostic
Two equally-addictive toys I’m playing with this week:
1. The Brand Asset Valuator: Some of you will be familiar with this particular gadget from Y&R (or at least from John Gerzema of Y&R). The Flex application allows you to compare the momentum of up to three brands simultaneously along four distinct criteria:
Energized Differentiation – the measure [...]
Published on February 17, 2009 10:47 pm.
Filed under: Notes on Things Seen, People and Brands Tags: brand asset valuator, conversation, differentiation, familiarity, global perceptions, relevance, Social Media, tools
Two more seemingly-unrelated articles, with a thread in common:
ESPN’s Buster Olney, among the best sportswriters in America, and my favorite source for baseball analysis, wrote a poignant piece last Saturday – before the news of Alex Rodriguez’ positive drug test broke – in which he argues that it is a business imperitive that baseball players [...]
Published on February 13, 2009 11:17 am.
Filed under: Notes on Things Seen, People and Brands Tags: baseball, conversation, customer service, engagement, fear, questions
Behavior Change Is The New Game Change
David Armano on the real goal.
Ghostwriting, Social Media and Ethics | Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog
Beth Harte considers the notion of having others do our social media legwork for us.
TED Blog: What do consumers want? Joseph Pine on TED.com
Joseph Pine thinks selling authenticity is tough. I'll say.
Conversation Agent: Two [...]
Published on January 15, 2009 4:02 pm.
Filed under: Ephemera, Links Tags: art, authenticity, conversation, emotion, Google, invisible, logic, losing, marketing, notion, questions, Social Media