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Entries from October 2010

links for October 14th

October 15th, 2010 · Comments Off on links for October 14th

adliterate: Douglas Holt has come to save us all…again For most innovation is either a functional endevour – introducing new product benefits or colonising additional markets, or else it is purely about emotional territory – owning different 'need states' or 'mindspace'. This philosophy of innoavtion is unfortunately rampant in our Client's organisations and it is […]

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links for October 13th

October 14th, 2010 · Comments Off on links for October 13th

The Daily Mash – BANKSY SIMPSON CREDITS FORCE THE MAN TO SURRENDER Banksy originals have long been popular with the world's key political thinkers, including Brad Pitt and Christina Aguilera, but the Simpson's commission is the first time he has been able to fire his truth-guided wisdom rockets through the medium of television. (tags: dailymash […]

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links for October 13th

October 13th, 2010 · Comments Off on links for October 13th

A tale of two logos: what GAP and MySpace can tell us about the power of identity – mediation "[MySpace] elaborated on the idea saying that it plans to use the blank space in the logo to display artwork by remaining MySpace users. The artwork will only appear when individuals place their mouse cursor over […]

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links for October 12th

October 12th, 2010 · Comments Off on links for October 12th

Mechanical Tumor: Representing CPU Usage through Quivering Flesh – information aesthetics Mechanical Tumor [i-mi.org] from interactive media artist Mio I-Zawa is a seemingly disgusting piece of flesh that somehow expands and contracts depending on the actual CPU usage of the computer. (tags: information computers infosthetics )

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links for October 7th

October 7th, 2010 · Comments Off on links for October 7th

Why Frat Boys Make Lousy Change Agents – Bill Taylor – Harvard Business Review "There is a difference between radical words and meaningful change. It's hard to build something great for the future if you spend most of your time demeaning what happened before. For even the most determined change agents, history and tradition can […]

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links for October 4th

October 4th, 2010 · Comments Off on links for October 4th

Paper Beats Digital For Emotion | Neuromarketing The study also found that the tangible materials involved more emotional processing in the subjects, important from a branding and ad recall standpoint; More processing is taking place in the right retrosplenial cortex when physical material is presented. This is involved in the processing of emotionally powerful stimuli […]

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links for October 1st

October 1st, 2010 · Comments Off on links for October 1st

I Believe in Advertising | ONLY SELECTED ADVERTISING | Advertising Blog & Community » Coca-Cola: Drinking Straw Lovely. (tags: ibelieveinadvertising cocacola advertising outdoor ) dataists » Blog Archive » Careful Statistical Computing: Part 1 No control, accurate measurement, or dedication matters when something so basic is flawed. I was so distraught that my first encounter […]

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