I think typepad is saying I'm fat. Or possibly a fatty. Do you think they filter the CAPTCHA thing to ensure rude words don't get presented to the automated robots?
coffee success
Beeker clearly did a splendid job hosting coffee morning yesterday. High quality attendees and excellent reporting back. Maybe she should do it every week.
game on
Arthur likes a challenge. Here's Paul's attempt to out shout him. Here are a couple of responses:
scream1.mov (224K)
scream2.mov (356K)
You decide. Paul or Arthur?
ethnographies?
Someone's got in touch to find out if there's a research company or someone out there who can help with a project like this:
"We are looking to find a company/group of people that can help us conduct some self-directed ethnographies. Ideally, we would like to create these ethnographies online in a blog (or similar) format to start. From there we will follow up with some face to face video ethnography work. Finally, we need to be able to conduct this project globally, (North America, South America, Europe and Asia). Help!"
I suggested OIA, but they weren't convinced. So if anyone's done something like this before and wants to do it again for a global brand in a hurry please leave info in the comments or email me and I'll pass your details on.
arthur and technology
As requested by Paul and Ben, more Arthur. In this episode he attempts to get the iSight mic to overload.
arthurscreams.mov (1.7MB)
brand-free until 2007
I’ve got nothing left to say about brands and advertising. It’s not that complicated. I don’t think the blogosphere needs any more pontification about that sort of nonsense from the likes of me. And, frankly, I’m beginning to bore myself with it. So I'm going to take the rest of the year off and not talk about brands. Hopefully I'll have some new thoughts in the new year.
In the meantime I’m going to try and write about other things. Not sure what. Just other things. Just to discover what I think of them. It’s only for a month and a bit.
(Though I will acquit myself of my responsibilities on the School of the Web and Post Of The Month, if brands come up there I guess we can talk about them.)
And it looks like I'm not the only person who suspects we need to reduce the amount of blogging noise about brands. Or at least increase the quality.
the rules of coffee morning
There will be a likemind meeting in Oslo on 1st December. (Likemind is like coffee mornings except more branded and ripe for monetisation.) And Angela is keen to organise some getting together and chatting in LA. Anyone fancy helping her out? (hi Angela)
If it helps, I'll make up some rules of coffee morning:
1. Do talk about coffee morning
2. Say you're going to be somewhere at sometime (ie 11am at Breakfast Club) and turn up and sit there. Bring a book to read. If no-one else turns up that's fine, you've got a couple of hours of book reading. If someone does turn up. Hurrah!
3. Anyone can come.
4. No agenda. Just talk about whatever comes up.
5. Other beverages are allowed.