Westpac have created the worst bank ad of all time
There’s an ad on TV (or at least it was on TV) which is absolutely infuriating and appaling. It shows emotive footage of pollution, small…
Continue reading →“Another Budget Airline?”
There is talk low cost carrier Tiger Air, a joint venture between Singapore Airlines and Ryanair, will be coming to Australia soon. The Age has…
Continue reading →Jobs’s Volte Face on Music?
Steve Jobs, guru extraordinaire of Apple Computer, has published a very interesting essay on the Apple website entitled “Thoughts on Music”. It describes how he…
Continue reading →Eat Your Greens – The truth behind “fair trade” and “ethically sourced” goods.
Although I’m only about two months late in reporting it, The Economist has done it again with a wonderful piece on buying “Fairtrade”, “ethically sourced”…
Continue reading →U2’s business practices
For many, many years we have admired U2’s business practices. This band has succeeded in not only writing and recording multi-million selling albums and lucrative…
Continue reading →Mass Debate Online
If you love a bit of a verbal stoush, check out ConvinceMe.net. I haven’t tried it yet but I like the idea of it. Not…
Continue reading →“Participation is the new consumption” – from Trendwatching.com
participation is the new consumption I LOVE IT. Consumption has consumed itself. Nothing is original. Affluence has become affluenza. The only thing which is original…
Continue reading →EMI = Every Mistake Imaginable
The past few weeks have been somewhat tumultuous in the music industry, with the departure of two of the music industry’s best regarded executives, David…
Continue reading →Traditional media are n00b5 – gaming is a PHENOMENON
WOW Burning Crusade is out. it’s very, very big. this is bigger than any film release of this year. The traditional media is slow to…
Continue reading →Toy Stores are really wonderful places – for an adult
The joy of walking into a toy store as a kid. Is there anything in adult life that approximates that pure open horizon, unlimited ecstasy…
Continue reading →‘Welcome to 2007’
Big things are afoot in Cupertino, California – the HQ of Apple Computer. Mac Rumors reports some very interesting possible new releases on January 9…
Continue reading →Lamenting over the Aussie car industry is a Beep Beep Beat Up
In a front page article in The Age, Bridie Smith has lamented the collapse of the local car industry, where sales are down over 20%….
Continue reading →Signatures and other email etiquette
How do you read email signatures? Is “Thanks and regards” your preferred poison when a simple “thanks” will do? Or is it a “Yours Sincerely”…
Continue reading →Blogging with Bill
Microsoft founder Bill Gates sat with the elite of tech-bloggers last week. There are some great reports from the event, but mostly this quote from…
Continue reading →Worldmapper
I’ve come across this brilliant little web application, Worldmapper: The world as you’ve never seen it before. This map shows world energy fuel exports It…
Continue reading →Great Marketing from the Collingwood Football Club
In the words of Dale Carnegie, “Remember that a person’s name is to them the sweetest and most important sound in any language”. So what…
Continue reading →Cop That!
It’s amazing. The soaring price of copper has led to organised theft of copper wire and materials from instrastructure such as tram lines and electricity…
Continue reading →JJJ – The Secret Station
JJJ thought they’d “do a MySpace” and exclusively promote a Jet concert on the banks of the Yarra at the last minute. The concert was…
Continue reading →VALE MILTON FRIEDMAN
One of the greatest thinkers, revolutionaries, philosophers, leaders and liberal evangelists this world has known, Milton Friedman, has died at the age of 94. The…
Continue reading →Lying Zune: How to use data from research groups to create a misleading headline
Microsoft were more than happy to release some stats a few days ago talking about how 58% of iPod owners said they would consider a…
Continue reading →How to be Interesting
This is most likely the most interesting blog post I’ve seen in a long time, russell davies: how to be interesting I would have added…
Continue reading →Drowning in the BogPond
Telstra’s ISP division, BigPond, has just released its ADSL 2+ service, which is priced at over double the most competitive market ADSL 2+ offering. Incredibly,…
Continue reading →Strategy vs Tactics
In the worlds I inhabit, I am noticing an increasing lack of attention being paid to strategy. Whether it be in business, or in politics,…
Continue reading →The ATO is planning on taxing gold farmers?!
Virtual world: tax man cometh – BizTech – Technology – theage.com.au The Australian Tax Office is with it… In another sign that the virtual worlds…
Continue reading →Wired’s lesson: “Let everything happen and measure it”
The Editor of Wired, Chris Anderson, has come out with this very interesting perspective, echoing what I was saying earlier in the week: He described…
Continue reading →The Gold Rush – Virtual goods and virtual wealth
There are huge changes in the relationship between the online and real worlds (the real world being referred to in cyberspace and in this piece…
Continue reading →What if the every band in the world could record one album only?
I was reading one of Russell Davies’ excellent blog posts when I found this great, great thought. What if every band ever was only able…
Continue reading →A fantastic World Cup Ad by Coca-Cola
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDBG9VEHuK8] Well done to Coke on producing this ad, so good… So on brand.
Continue reading →My piece for Crikey on French talent woes at the FIFA World Cup 2006
I had the great pleasure of attending Switzerland vs France at the Gootleib Daimler Stadion in downtown Stuttgart. What a wonderful atmosphere. The World Cup…
Continue reading →Live Internet Hunting and the “Internet of Things”
The internet is really a pretty amazing thing. Back in the late 80s when most of my contemporaries were asking their older brothers and sisters…
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