Recommended Reading – 18th June 2010

It’s been a few weeks since my last update. I’ve kept the recommendations to a manageable number – seven – which means that the average quality of the posts and articles I’m linking to is even higher than usual. Enjoy. Edward Boches has written a fantastic post on putting together a new creative team, and [...]

Recommended reading – 30th April 2010

This week, I am mostly recommending: Will Humphrey on the differences between PR and advertising, having now worked in planning departments for both sides Bud Caddell presents a very thorough overview of the Theory of Planned Behaviour. Not a bad basis for questionnaire design in certain instances. Sam Page has an excellent analysis of Jeff [...]

Recommending Reading – 4th April 2010

If you have a spare 15 minutes this weekend, you could do worse than read the following: Jonah Lehrer looks at Costco through his Neuroscience prism. I’m not quite sure it adequately explains why people choose to pay a subscription to enter the store, but it is still interesting reading. Two sides of a similar [...]

Carpe diem

An unwanted corollary of thinking time – the topic of my previous post – is the possibility of feeling unproductive or lazy. There is a distinction between the two – thinking is doing, after all. And doing is important. We should do stuff. And we all have free time. So we should look to do [...]

Links – 15th February 2009

Things I have read in the last week that I would recommend: Henry Jenkins has begun serialising his white paper on spreadable media – If it Doesn’t Spread It’s Dead. Part 1 – on media viruses and memes – and Part 2 – on sticky and spreadable – are both fascinating Andrew Scott argues that [...]

Clay Shirky’s POLIS lecture at LSE

Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Clay Shirky give a lecture entitled Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens When People Come Together at a POLIS event hosted at LSE. The lecture was part of the promotional tour for the paperback launch of his bestselling, critically acclaimed book of the same name. This was [...]