August 2009
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“In every aspect of your business (and personal life) try to allow others to...”
– New Rules for the New Economy (via heyitsnoah)
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Stark realisation: I no longer depend on Google to... →
Great post by alexjcampbell
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Read this. Can I have this? Will you do this? I like this. I don’t like that. Want to do this? That was fun.
by magicmolly
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“Traditional agencies tend to see themselves as guardians of the brand, while...”
– “In the old world, agencies were way out in front of clients,” Mary Beth West, chief marketing officer at Kraft Foods, said. “Now clients are ahead of the agencies – and the consumer is ahead of all of us.” FT.com
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Where Five Print Magazines Are Finding Revenue →
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Rising Stars →
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Vanity Fair's Summer Cocktail Recipe
1 1/2 oz. Bombay Sapphire Gin 3/4 oz. fresh lemon juice 1/2 oz. lavender syrup 3 fresh, muddled strawberries 3 oz. club soda 1 lemon wedge 1 strawberry slice
Squeeze half a lemon into a Collins glass, add lavender syrup, and gin. Stir and fill with ice. Top with club soda, and garnish with a lemon wedge and a strawberry slice. Via Vanity Fair.
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“Advertising is the great sponge. It will soak up anything it can use. But that...”
– AdPulp on Douglas Rushkoff’s An End to Movements
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“…by creating and branding a movement, even the most well-meaning...”
– AN END TO MOVEMENTS by Douglas Rushkoff
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“In our current position, when disconnection from the real world is itself a...”
– AN END TO MOVEMENTS by Douglas Rushkoff
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WatchSuper 8 1974 via ksquared
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“My boyfriend gets really, really angry with me because he’s just like ‘I just...”
– Lily Allen in Trouble With Beau Over Twitter Addiction
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“Sometimes people are reluctant to disclose the reason for their depression...”
– Two scientists suggest that depression is not a malfunction, but a mental adaptation that brings certain cognitive advantages: Scientific American
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“It makes perfect sense to me that folks like me are drawn to genres that...”
– Jason Henninger on how people with “atypical neurology” like dyslexia, Asperger’s, ADHD and autism find a home in the science fiction and fantasy community. Neurodiversity and Fandom
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“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high...”
– Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There’d Be Cake (via flourhoneymilk)
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“… we got her to look at other films that I had worked on, other films that...”
– Director of The September Issue, RJ Cutler, on how he got Grace Coddington to relent to being filmed.
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“My simple vision of the future? Planning departments hire people who are...”
– Does the world need digital strategists, House of Naked. Link via Alex Campbell.
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“I have a child with insulin-dependent diabetes. I am constantly aware that every...”
– An email sent to Jonah Lehrer after he wrote a post on animal rights.
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Mustard now comes in dozens of varieties.
Why has... →
The ketchup conundrum, by Malcolm Gladwell
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“… there’s a deeper problem with these newfangled preference...”
– Jonah Lehrer writing on Netflix recommendation algorithms at The Frontal Cortex.
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By Tess Lynch
I waste some time, now and then, thinking of how our generation will deal with the day our children discover the archives of Our Internet Lives. Usually this wasted time is spent sliding down an emotional and theoretical hill: at first, amusement (having children! That’s for older siblings! Man, I’m just trying to live for today! But okay, okay, what if); then, perhaps, a little bit of mirth...
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Modern Art in Three Paragraphs
Impressionism — painting outside of a studio with quick, loose brushstrokes to capture an evocative impression of their subject. Van Gogh was an Impressionist but wanted to express how he felt about what he saw so he distorted the subject. This helped to lead to Expressionism practised by artists from Edvard Munch through to Francis Bacon. The Fauves (wild beasts) expressed themselves by painting...
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“We may need more than a singular big idea, but our little ideas better not be...”
– Creativity_Unbound
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“We are hearing stories of companies that scanTwitter looking for references to...”
– Part of Henry Jenkin’s larger post on The Message of Twitter: “Here It Is” and “Here I Am”