2008 December | The Parallax View

Posted by russell in Social Media on 12 31st, 2008 | 4 Comments

Just been looking at Logo Instant, which does what it says on the box and provided instant logos, for free. There’s a range of spiffing designs and the chaps are decent enough to keep one informed of their latest and greatest on Twitter. Not sure what this one’s about but it sums up their sweet...

Irish dropped Bollocks...

Posted by russell in Music on 12 31st, 2008 | No Comments

A thoroughly entertaining snippet in the Gruaniad this morning (nicked from the Irish Times) on the reception of Punk and the Sex Pistols by the Irish authorities and how Anglo Saxon ribaldry upset their Celtic delicates. Recently released Irish government papers reveals what in 1977, the Garda...

Into the cool...

Posted by russell in Communications, Social Media on 12 30th, 2008 | No Comments

Thanks to Todd Defren for finding this chart and telling us about it on Twitter. Todd wonders if: This is either really cool or complete B.S. Hard to tell. I think it’s defintely the former – some richness here that will supply a long musing: Download the Large size - All sizes of this photo...

Duck Rabbit, Duck!...

Posted by russell in Social Media, Theory on 12 30th, 2008 | No Comments

Over at the Sun Babelfish blog there’s an item on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Duck-Rabbit. This image is always generous in its usage and in this instance is allowed to mull creatively on the SSL and on Public Key Cryptography (PKI). Duck Rabbit For Wittgenstein the ambiguity was its richness: I am...

Posted by russell in Communications, Social Media, seaport.exe on 12 30th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Following on from my post about Seaport.exe, one of Microsoft’s Live Writer software developers Joe Cheng has been in touch. Joe’s Whatever blog covers Live Writer in development and action and looking at the screenshots and integration with Twitter maybe I should give it another go. Joe also...

Passion 2009...

Posted by russell in Communications, Social Media on 12 30th, 2008 | 2 Comments

The return of passion. 1st Micah: There is only one thing that breeds success, and that is passion. Hire people that are passionate about your product; that can talk about your product with passion. Remember, its not your call as to whether you are passionate or not. Its the people listening. If you are an...

Posted by russell in Communications, Social Media on 12 29th, 2008 | No Comments

Some fab data in from eMarketer/Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) over at Mashable on Social Media Marketing and the benefits thereof. Customer engagement and customer comms comes tops. Be really useful to see how this compares within the firewall, especially with employee engagement and...

Posted by russell in Communications, Social Media on 12 29th, 2008 | No Comments

Just did a quick check on the Twitority of the term ‘Internal Communications’ on Twitter. Of dubious merit methinks- firstly, for a quirk of data, I actually get a mention because of my Top 10 Internal Communications people to follow on Twitter; but hardly any of that list who should be there,...

The CD is dead, long live the…...

Posted by russell in Music on 12 28th, 2008 | No Comments

Those creators of the future Gartner have posted a valediction for bidding mourning for the CD. The precogs say that this should be the last christmas for the format: 2008 Should Be the Last Christmas for Retail CDs. Having spent a most pleasant time with the people at Dada Records in Chiswick just before...

Seaport.exe, a battle of the cloud...

Posted by russell in Social Media, seaport.exe on 12 28th, 2008 | 16 Comments

Noticed this morning after my PC ran to a crawl that a new app was running – seaport.exe. A quick Google (no I didn’t use Microsoft Live search) revealed that quite a few people thought is was spyware and even their tech advice advised so. However, it turns out that this thing lurking as seaport...