Links – 9th January 2009

Enjoy your Friday
Products

Jon Canter rants against the rise of personalised copy on product packaging. “We’re the couple who love to make crisps.” It sounds like a personal ad in Snackmakers Weekly: a couple seeks another couple who also love to make crisps, in the hope of meeting up in a car park in Colchester. (Comment [...]

Links – 27th June 2008

Selected links from my del.icio.us feed:
Blog-related
danah boyd’s research on social networking sites
Questions about target audiences for newspaper websites (Guardian) – a more coherent and focused article than I managed here, where I raised several questions about the measurements and content for newspaper websites
Collection of podcasts and videos on the future of journalism (Guardian) – an [...]

Links – 22/03/08

A couple of days late due to the MRS Conference and Easter playing havoc with my scheduling.
Blog-related

IBM blogging policy NB: All companies should have one; few do
Review of WARC Online Conference
NIN make $1.6m in the first week (Wired) NB: A dedicated fanbase willing to pay for deluxe editions seems to be a pre-requisite for this [...]

Links – 13/03/08

I’ve been feeling under the weather recently. So while I have some ideas for blog posts, I haven’t actually written them yet. Sunday should be the time to rectify that.
I’m going to the MRS Conference on both days next week; please say hello if you will be there too.
Blog related links

Trendy business names (Smithsonian)
Conversation by [...]