July 2009
69 posts
“Twitter is so Q2 2009”
– (via davidtrewern)
“…there is something deeper that quivers within us, art, that which engages us…...”
– Stephen Fry at the iTunes Live Festival. (via myownprivate)
“In the 20th century, while we were beginning to develop endangered species...”
– Samantha Power comments on why politicians are unwilling and unable to intervene to prevent genocide. From her disturbing, thought-provoking TED talk in November last year.
Power’s book A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide profoundly changed my outlook on international...
Creating advocates, creating tribes
This a rough draft of a talk I’m going to give tomorrow as part of a social media seminar my work is organising. I would love to hear any feedback, ideas, criticism - if you have any please email me (alexjcampbell AT gmail.com) or Tweet me (http://twitter.com/alexjcampbell).
I’ll be presenting it as slides in Keynote tomorrow, but I wanted to write it as a blog post first to see how...
Most of the time I hate advertising. It just seems like big companies yelling at people aimlessly. The world suffers through all this unnecessary noise.
But sometimes people create wonderful things in the name of selling stuff. These amazing ads for Scrabble from Ogilvy & Mather Paris fall in that category:
(Also see this interview with the Art Director who worked on the campaign)
“Want 100,000 followers in three days? Then purchase and operate a newspaper you...”
– via @Mumbrella via @BigHarto
“A senior executive at J.P. Morgan, when asked how he defined risk, breezily...”
– From When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein.
“When given the choice between obsessing over competitors or customers, always...”
– Three Things I Know, Jeff Bezos (via davidkaneda)
fmylife:
Today, I learned that the four girls who I assumed were my girlfriend’s good friends and whom she was always talking about were actually characters from the television show, “Sex and the City.” My girlfriend has fictional friends. FML
“A children’s book sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Appropriate...”
– Heather Has Two Mommies
“In 1965, 80% of 18-49 year olds in the US could be reached with three 60-second...”
– Courtesy of Futurelab.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income...
(via fuckyeahfacts)
Even more trouble at Conde Nast: "You got on at... →
More old media trouble: Conde Nast hires McKinsey... →
“Mediation is a binding form of non-judicial dispute resolution. I watched Boston...”
– Tracy Jordan, 30 Rock. (via replicant) (via ourconquest) (via oceanchild) (via flickflickflicker)
The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in...
I have no way of knowing of this is true, but it’s a great story.
(via fuckyeahfacts)
WatchSome footage from our ski trip on the weekend. I make an appearance right at the end.
The Economist explains what went wrong with... →
I absolutely love Santigold. She is amazing.
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