Dancing Queen and the End of Popular Music
The other night, as I lay sweating in my mum’s flat in boiling England in the early hours, a crowd of 20 somethings spilled out of a nearby club. The usual hubbub of indistinct chatter ensued as they...
View ArticleThe Commuter’s Shopping Impulse
A good piece that explores the point I was trying to make earlier about the commuter element in cellphone service adoption, from Reuters’ Sachi Izumi (via textually.org). Someone needs to look closely...
View ArticleMySpace Cleansing
Highlight of my Monday morning so far: Hi jeremy, You have been invited to join the Colon Cleansing Treatment group on MySpace. Click the link below to see the group:...
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Asia’s Obsession With Lists
Last week the WSJ asked me to dig around for sites in Asia-Pacific that are building on the new Obsession with List making, as reported by Katherine Rosman. Here is the result (subscription only), and...
View ArticleThe Real Conversation
We all keep talking about the idea of conversations — the “market as a conversation” (as opposed to the companies shouting at us to buy their stuff) and, nowadays, as the blogosphere as the...
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Dud of the Week: eBay Anniversary
I shouldn’t boast too much about this, I know, since you’re all going to get horribly jealous, but I just received a very exciting email, courtesy of the nice folks over at eBay, congratulating me on...
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Sponsoring Theft
Are companies like eBay knowingly peddling stolen goods? Surely not, but I wonder about their advertising strategy. I get confused about how sponsored results work. You know, those textual ads that...
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Power to the Consumer. (Is That All?)
Jan Chipchase, roving Nokia researcher, as ever inspires and provokes with this piece on the psychology of the coffee cup: This Akasaka coffee shop includes a row of accessible power sockets (running...
View ArticleGetting Paid for Doing Bad Things
I have recently received half a dozen offers of placing links in my blogs to reputable companies’ websites. Think of it as product placement for the Internet. It’s been around a while, but I just...
View ArticleCancelling: From Ease to Sleaze
Cleaning house of the many services which drain my bank account monthly without me noticing, I observed what I have decided to call the Cancellation Ease and Sleaze Scale in action. At one end there’s...
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