Fintsomsnus http://fintsomsnus.com (mostly) musings about technology, marketing and music from Jonathan Forster Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:58:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en 5918 Medium and Message http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fintsomsnus/~3/453806364/medium-and-message http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/11/15/medium-and-message#comments Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:58:51 +0000 jforster http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/11/15/medium-and-message


]]> http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/11/15/medium-and-message/feed http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/11/15/medium-and-message Bubble Project http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fintsomsnus/~3/424075700/bubble-project http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/10/17/bubble-project#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:42:02 +0000 jforster http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/10/17/bubble-project Bubble Project.

]]> http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/10/17/bubble-project/feed http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/10/17/bubble-project More Church and Bass… http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fintsomsnus/~3/405714697/more-church-and-bass http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/09/28/more-church-and-bass#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:56:10 +0000 jforster http://fintsomsnus.com/?p=234

The meme develops, I think these are just cracking :)

from http://www.crackunit.com/2008/09/26/more-church-and-bass/

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  • 5 ad operations disasters - iMediaConnection.com
    worth reading more than once!
  • Mike On Ads » Blog Archive » Can’t we all just 302? Report on redirect timings
  • Best Buy snapping up remains of Napster [Digital Music]
    • ]]>    <ul> <li><a href="http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/20428.asp">5 ad operations disasters - iMediaConnection.com</a><br/> worth reading more than once!</li> <li><a href="http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/09/16/cant-we-all-just-302-report-on-redirect-timings/">Mike On Ads &raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; Can&rsquo;t we all just 302? Report on redirect timings</a></li> <li><a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/valleywag/full/~3/393302353/best-buy-snapping-up-remains-of-napster">Best Buy snapping up remains of Napster [Digital Music]</a></li> </ul>http://del.icio.us/jforster1978#2008-09-21     Mike Ashley double attacked by Toon fans From The Northern Echo http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fintsomsnus/~3/395611639/mike-ashley-double-attacked-by-toon-fans-from-the-northern-echo http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/09/17/mike-ashley-double-attacked-by-toon-fans-from-the-northern-echo#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:42:34 +0000 jforster http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/09/17/mike-ashley-double-attacked-by-toon-fans-from-the-northern-echo Haha - this is too funny to be true

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    A MAN who is the spitting image of Mike Ashley was attacked in a pub after being mistaken for the hated Newcastle United owner

    Mike Ashley double attacked by Toon fans From The Northern Echo.

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  • Stories That Stick
    storytelling in good copy
  • traditional marketing mix
    bang on, and funny - be sure to check out the cartoon! :)
  • Google Reader (1000+)
    "According to OgilvyAction, nearly 40% of U.S. shoppers wait until they are in store to decide what to buy. This is why branding is so important; it's what makes you matter to a consumer... But the greatest brand awareness and preference alone do not always connect through the purchase path to result in a sale."
  • In search of value
    And for most people, it won't matter so much. Because most of us aren't focused on flipping assets. We're building value by creating interactions that work, by writing stories that spread or by designing products and services that actually create something worth paying for. That sounds like a treacly mission statement, but it's easy to get distracted by external noise instead of focusing on what counts. Hint: They started Google in the middle of the dot com melt down
    • ]]>    <ul> <li><a href="http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2008/09/stories-that-st.html">Stories That Stick</a><br/> storytelling in good copy</li> <li><a href="http://www.tomfishburne.com/tomfishburne/2008/09/traditional-mar.html">traditional marketing mix</a><br/> bang on, and funny - be sure to check out the cartoon! :)</li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.shopperculture.com%2Fshopper_culture%2Fatom.xml">Google Reader (1000+)</a><br/> &quot;According to OgilvyAction, nearly 40% of U.S. shoppers wait until they are in store to decide what to buy. This is why branding is so important; it&#039;s what makes you matter to a consumer... But the greatest brand awareness and preference alone do not always connect through the purchase path to result in a sale.&quot;</li> <li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/sethsmainblog/~3/393174714/in-search-of-va.html">In search of value</a><br/> And for most people, it won&#039;t matter so much. Because most of us aren&#039;t focused on flipping assets. We&#039;re building value by creating interactions that work, by writing stories that spread or by designing products and services that actually create something worth paying for. That sounds like a treacly mission statement, but it&#039;s easy to get distracted by external noise instead of focusing on what counts. Hint: They started Google in the middle of the dot com melt down</li> </ul>http://del.icio.us/jforster1978#2008-09-15    Links for 2008-09-11 [del.icio.us]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fintsomsnus/~3/390360681/jforster1978Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500http://del.icio.us/jforster1978#2008-09-11
  • Why Piracy?
    interesting article on how one part of the gaming industry is trying to shift in response to piracy
  • Thursday Business Links: Young Jeezy Tops Chart, French Market Slips Further
    The French recorded music market dropped 12.2% in wholesale value and 17.1% in retail value in the first half of 2008. The whole drop was 17% in the first half of 2007. Digital sales were up 56.9% in wholesale value. (Billboard.biz)
  • Leading Not Leadership
  • How To Respond To A Blog Crisis In 5 Steps
  • Google Reader (1000+)
    Merlin Mann makes a good point: “NPR drives traffic to their home page by never announcing any URL except their own: a proven web strategy also known as "being a huge dick."”
  • One Golden Square » Selling Brands by Nick Hewat
    very good
    • ]]>    <ul> <li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/coolfer/~3/389808153/why_piracy.php">Why Piracy?</a><br/> interesting article on how one part of the gaming industry is trying to shift in response to piracy</li> <li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/coolfer/~3/389717731/thursday_busine_80.php">Thursday Business Links: Young Jeezy Tops Chart, French Market Slips Further</a><br/> The French recorded music market dropped 12.2% in wholesale value and 17.1% in retail value in the first half of 2008. The whole drop was 17% in the first half of 2007. Digital sales were up 56.9% in wholesale value. (Billboard.biz)</li> <li><a href="http://neilperkin.typepad.com/only_dead_fish/2008/09/leading-not-leadership.html">Leading Not Leadership</a></li> <li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rohitbhargava/~3/386690530/how-to-respond.html">How To Respond To A Blog Crisis In 5 Steps</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FJamesCridlandsBlog">Google Reader (1000+)</a><br/> Merlin Mann makes a good point: “NPR drives traffic to their home page by never announcing any URL except their own: a proven web strategy also known as &quot;being a huge dick.&quot;”</li> <li><a href="http://onegoldensquare.com/2008/08/selling-brands-by-nick-hewat/">One Golden Square &raquo; Selling Brands by Nick Hewat</a><br/> very good</li> </ul>http://del.icio.us/jforster1978#2008-09-11     Words Cannot Express the Awesome http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fintsomsnus/~3/390071040/words-cannot-express-the-awesome http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/09/11/words-cannot-express-the-awesome#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:32:42 +0000 jforster http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/09/11/words-cannot-express-the-awesome
    EepyBird’s Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.

    http://www.eepybird.com/

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    Wild Beasts - Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants. Dir: OneInThree from OneInThree on Vimeo.

    It uses a version of the Droste Effect, which is based on an uncompleted lithograph that Escher made in 1956. (The name comes from Dutch cocoa brand Droste, whose packaging featured a nurse holding a tray with a packet of Droste, on which there was an image of a nurse holding a tray with a packet of Droste, on which…)

    To realise the promo, OneInThree adapted some software created by Josh Sommers, and borrowed seven extra Macs from their nearest and dearest. They now had nine computers, and ran them 24 hours a day for five days, working in shifts to make sure it ran as smoothly as possible. (They still had over 400 crashes during the 1080 computer hours, and ended up with 2 terabytes of data.)

    We Made This: Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants

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  • BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers - PythonInfo Wiki
  • Google on the Boob Tube
    partnership announced
  • 2008 är det personliga nyhetsflödets år
    newsfeeds, NYT had a great article on this also
  • How to interview key hires II: Behavioral interviewing
  • Field of Dreams
    interesting thoughts on how quickly the world of digital media has developed
    • ]]>    <ul> <li><a href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers">BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers - PythonInfo Wiki</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/09/google-on-the-boob-tube.html">Google on the Boob Tube</a><br/> partnership announced</li> <li><a href="http://bisonblog.blogs.com/blog/2008/09/2008-r-det-pers.html">2008 &auml;r det personliga nyhetsfl&ouml;dets &aring;r</a><br/> newsfeeds, NYT had a great article on this also</li> <li><a href="http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/how-to-interview-key-hires-ii-behavioral-interviewing/">How to interview key hires II: Behavioral interviewing</a></li> <li><a href="http://tangerinetoad.blogspot.com/2008/09/field-of-dreams.html">Field of Dreams</a><br/> interesting thoughts on how quickly the world of digital media has developed</li> </ul>http://del.icio.us/jforster1978#2008-09-10     I miss the excitable UK tabloids! http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fintsomsnus/~3/388780783/i-miss-the-excitable-uk-tabloids http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/09/10/i-miss-the-excitable-uk-tabloids#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:37:57 +0000 jforster http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/09/10/i-miss-the-excitable-uk-tabloids

    Noisy Decent Graphics: Large Capello Collider

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    View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: avant jane)

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  • UX is the new account planning.
    great post for anyone interested in user experience
  • DRAFT: Drupal.org Experience Strategy
    i love the phrase "helping users kick ass"
  • Time
    Top Seth
    • ]]>    <ul> <li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FromTheHeadOfZeusJones/~3/387822616/">UX is the new account planning.</a><br/> great post for anyone interested in user experience</li> <li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/disambiguity/~3/387760473/">DRAFT: Drupal.org Experience Strategy</a><br/> i love the phrase &quot;helping users kick ass&quot;</li> <li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/sethsmainblog/~3/386581928/time.html">Time</a><br/> Top Seth</li> </ul>http://del.icio.us/jforster1978#2008-09-09    Links for 2008-09-08 [del.icio.us]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fintsomsnus/~3/387338089/jforster1978Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500http://del.icio.us/jforster1978#2008-09-08
  • Jan Chipchase - Future PerfectFuture Social
    he following notes accompany a presentation titled Future Social to the 2008 LIFT Asia conference and relates to this post. The slides can be downloaded from here [3MB]
    • ]]>    <ul> <li><a href="http://www.janchipchase.com/future-social">Jan Chipchase - Future PerfectFuture Social</a><br/> he following notes accompany a presentation titled Future Social to the 2008 LIFT Asia conference and relates to this post. The slides can be downloaded from here [3MB]</li> </ul>http://del.icio.us/jforster1978#2008-09-08    Links for 2008-09-07 [del.icio.us]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fintsomsnus/~3/386370786/jforster1978Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500http://del.icio.us/jforster1978#2008-09-07
  • F|R: 5 Reasons to Go All Angel à la Lookery
  • Daniel Lyons: Apple Is What Microsoft Was--Bigfoot | Newsweek The Technologist | Newsweek.com
    "A former lieutenant of Steve Jobs's once told me something surprising about his ex-boss. "Steve is a monopolist at heart," he said. "He's just like Bill Gates. He just hasn't been as successful.""
  • Ambient Awareness
    This is the paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting. This was never before possible, because in the real world, no friend would bother to call you up and detail the sandwiches she was eating. The ambient information becomes like “a type of E.S.P.,” as Haley described it to me, an invisible dimension floating over everyday life.
    • ]]>    <ul> <li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/385117297/">F|R: 5 Reasons to Go All Angel &agrave; la Lookery</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/157545">Daniel Lyons: Apple Is What Microsoft Was--Bigfoot | Newsweek The Technologist | Newsweek.com</a><br/> &quot;A former lieutenant of Steve Jobs&#039;s once told me something surprising about his ex-boss. &quot;Steve is a monopolist at heart,&quot; he said. &quot;He&#039;s just like Bill Gates. He just hasn&#039;t been as successful.&quot;&quot;</li> <li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/385958310/004600.php">Ambient Awareness</a><br/> This is the paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting. This was never before possible, because in the real world, no friend would bother to call you up and detail the sandwiches she was eating. The ambient information becomes like “a type of E.S.P.,” as Haley described it to me, an invisible dimension floating over everyday life.</li> </ul>http://del.icio.us/jforster1978#2008-09-07     Great article http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fintsomsnus/~3/385673308/great-article http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/09/07/great-article#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:17:41 +0000 jforster http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/09/07/great-article By night, Joe Ades dines with his fourth wife at exclusive restaurants, sips Veuve Clicquot at the Pierre, and goes home to a three-bedroom Park Avenue apartment. By day, he is something else altogether. At 72, the “peeler guy” in the Turnbull & Asser shirts is a New York legend.

    The Gentleman Grafter: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com.

    ]]>     http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/09/07/great-article/feed http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/09/07/great-article     What a fantastic concept - one to watch…. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fintsomsnus/~3/385598369/what-a-fantastic-concept-one-to-watch http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/09/07/what-a-fantastic-concept-one-to-watch#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:02:38 +0000 jforster http://fintsomsnus.com/2008/09/07/what-a-fantastic-concept-one-to-watch The School of Life

    Like a cuckoo’s egg, the School of Life nestles within the University of London campus, a tasteful front concealing a wicked mind that promises a completely different educational experience to that on offer at the nearby Birkbeck and UCL.

    The School of Life opens on Marchmont Street - Time Out London

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