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Toys
links for 2008-03-30
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Chart: Plots Revolution and Illusion
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Comment: Amelia Torode: “We Are What We Share”
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“The end game is collaboration marketing where advertising, meaning paid placements of messages, becomes more and more marginal. The focus shifts to becoming more helpful by creating rich, serendipitous environments that people will actively seek out.”
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‘Identity” replaces “experience” as the next big concept in design and media thinking. People create their own identities interacting with products and services. The notion of a consumer experience is a more passive way of thinking. It’s so 20th century.’
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“They feel that TV shows are better written and more interesting. For roughly $40US, they got something like 25 episodes… My son read four 600 page Harry Potter books on our two week trip…” — Again: They’re hungry. Beware of their appetite.
The Future Of Advertising J/K
A great marketing status update from Paul Isakson.
links for 2008-03-25
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275!
links for 2008-03-22
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“To @emilychang - After fifteen years of blissful happiness I would like to ask for your hand in marriage?”
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“@maxkiesler - yes, i do!”
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“A group of 10 people within a large organization is a kind of fake tribe. The number of people you interact with is about right. But something is missing: individual initiative.” — “In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally.”
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“We in the technology world are used to that sort of solution: you don’t beat the incumbents; you redefine the problem to make them irrelevant.”
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“find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.” — [you ignore ideas because they look wrong]
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“Good engineering involves thinking about how things can be made to work; the security mindset involves thinking about how things can be made to fail… The security mindset is a valuable skill that everyone can benefit from, regardless of career path.”
links for 2008-03-20
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“… aspiring car designers would compete against one another to design the next hot Ford vehicle.” — What a shit idea. Winners vs Losers. WTF? The corporate marketology laid bare. “Lame Moves”.
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“Parasitoids are organisms living in or on their host and feeding directly upon it, eventually leading to its death. They are much like parasites in their close symbiotic relationship with their host or hosts.”
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“In this special case the observers are supposed to push the ON button. After a while the lid of the trunk opens, a hand comes out and turns off the machine. The trunk closes - that’s it!” — Ffffffark that’s goooood!
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Gimme!
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Arthur C. Clarke on the ‘Ultimate Machine’: “There is something unspeakably sinister about a machine that does nothing — absolutely nothing — except switch itself off.”
links for 2008-03-19
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“This makes the conductor agency model - the agency acting as a strategic middle man connecting and managing specialist suppliers to deliver - a possibility.”
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Comment: Giff Constable: - “teen and especially college years are when humans are especially active in building their real world network and real world identity. Sub-12 and Post20 are easier demographics in many ways.” — True.
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“Linden Lab allows you to keep the IP (copyright) of the art you create, the scripts you write, or the textures you upload. They do not grant you ownership of the objects in the world (which can be deleted at their discretion)” — Nice clarifation
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“YouTube for comics.” Oh man. More like ‘Bitch Strips’.
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“seriously screw all you guys. I did my best to ask a range of things.”
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“They want to participate in the process, but sometimes you think they’re so busy doing that, it must be hard to actually pay attention.” — Attention to what? The medium is the message, the user is the content. Hehe.
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“An entire species afflicted with an identity crises. It’s coming.”
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“the properties of a complex system like the brain don’t just pop into existence from nowhere; they must derive from the properties of that system’s ultimate constituents. Those ultimate constituents must therefore have subjective features themselves”
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David Chalmers: “Experience is information from the inside; physics is information from the outside.”
links for 2008-03-18
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“the Fed has just signalled with absolute certainty that it has absolutely no interest in helping disinfect the financial system.” - Commented to the effect: why the hell would it??
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1,000 True Fans: “A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author - in other words, anyone producing works of art - needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.”
links for 2008-03-16
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“Monetization is ugly because it blinds us to the truth that value must flow in many directions. That’s the essence of edge strategy, in fact. That’s why businesses that aren’t deeply, durably connected to people are already falling apart.”
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Comment: Gregory: “twitter, friendfeed… i think of them as technology that enables esp and intuition, (yes to your ‘complements’ observation) which is a more subtle activity than plotting, planning, manipulating, managing, confronting, etc.”
links for 2008-03-15
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“In December 2004, a frightened young hippo, separated from his family by a devastating tsunami, bonded with an Aldabra tortoise named Mzee. The 130 year-old tortoise accepted Owen as his own, and an inseparable bond was forged.”
links for 2008-03-14
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“The more you can create a connection between your real-world product and the digital space by making the two work together to make peoples’ lives a bit easier when it comes to using them, the better.”
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“If transformation design is to flourish, marketers must drop the war metaphor in favor of the metaphor offered by transformation design: storytelling.”
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“Like a story, transformation design allows people to step into new experiences… At every touch point the company offers an opportunity for a person to access the story and become a role player in it.”
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Aiiiiiight!
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“ten superhero abilities: #Mobbability #Cooperation radar #Ping quotient #Influency #Multi Capitalism #Protovation #Open Authorship #Signal/Noise Management #Longbroading #Emergensight”
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“Adderall is a pharmaceutical psychostimulant comprised of mixed amphetamine salts. It is a Schedule II controlled substance, meaning that it has been deemed to have a high potential for abuse and addiction, but has accepted medical uses.”
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Dr. Anjan Chatterjee: “cosmetic neurology” — Dr. Barbara Sahakian: “The desire for cognitive enhancement is very strong, maybe stronger than for beauty, or athletic ability.”
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Naomi Alderman: “Stories could become pervasive: when you’re lost in a good book, your whole online world could blend seamlessly with it. Of course, all that additional content will have to be written. Therein lies one of the problems.” — Written?
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“… bloggers tend to feel a greater sense of connectedness to a particular community, and feel that they have a larger social support system behind them compared with those who do not blog.”
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“Ad nets, social nets, and minigames won’t change the DNA of the economic system. Radical new approaches to consumption and production across the industries that are broken will.”
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“Blackshaw further explains why he believes customer services is now the media department…” — “The Internet kills the middleman and agencies are the ultimate middlemen.”
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“He sees an injustice. steps in. then procedes to wow everyone with his unbeliably hot dance moves.” - Save The Dancer, Save the World! [via: Iain Tait | crackunit]
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TBL: “… people are very excited about all these connections being made between people - for obvious reasons, because people are important - but I think after a while people will realise that there are many other things you can connect to via the web.”
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