act:ualise | what we think

This Mashable piece reminds us that Google’s grand plan is very much in plain view: “Google’s goal isn’t to have the majority market share. The goal is to force you on the web more and for longer. Why? It’s all part of Google’s simple equation to monetize the world. Since nearly every website holds a Google [...]

After a chat with someone the other day, I recalled that the most commonly given answer when we’d asked clients why we’d won a new business pitch was that we aced the question-and-answer session. On reflection, two key points emerged: Ask clients why you won or lost the pitch. I never had a (prospective) client [...]

So The Guardian is to begin publishing exclusively to Twitter, which I can only assume will real-time article syndication compared to the existing RSS syndication which heaves 20-30 articles at fixed intervals throughout the day. Given the trouble that the newspaper publishing industries around the globe seem to be having we can safely assume plenty of [...]

I’m a great believer in teams; we all have our horror stories about failing teams, some of us will even have had the good fortune to have worked in great teams. That said, great teams aren’t common nor are they easy to assemble or maintain; any great team will have it’s share of dirt along [...]

As a two week young initiate to Twitter and an erstwhile resister of the preceding social media wave - Facebook, MySpace, Bebo - I’m a long way off hyping (or hoping) that Twitter will change our lives or some such. Yet, this fast growing, highly emulsified blend of social hubbub and content is expanding – pulsing – at a stunning [...]

My two previous posts present a worrying possible conclusion to the way we’re living and the impact that we’re having on our own social fabric and environment today. It’s always easy to criticise and find the negative in our situation, so I’ve been thinking about what we can do to improve the situation, and what [...]