The Top 10 Internet Moments of the Decade
The Top 10 Internet Moments of the Decade (Source: The Age) What are the most influential internet moments of the decade? The Webby Awards are happening again and they’re reviewing the noughties decade with their top 10 of internet moments. Here’s the list: Craigslist online classified site expands outside San Francisco (2000) The launch of […]
A Short History of Branding: A Soap Story
Once upon a time in a small village, a local soap maker produced his wares and sold them out of his own front door. For the other locals in the town this was a godsend. After their weekly bath you could hear them sing, ‘Clean at last! Clean at last!’ As the village became a […]
The Remarkable World We Live In
This morning I woke to see another avalanche of emails descending on my inbox. As usual, I scanned through to see if there was anything interesting…Sure enough, there was and one in particular stood out. It was from someone in the US who was asking for permission to use one of my images in a […]
Global Glue: Connect and Grow Rich
Here’s our latest Book Rapper issue: Global Glue: Connect and Grow Rich. The Book Iggy Pintado; Connection Generation: How connection determines our place in society and business. Speed RAP Forget which generation you were born into! Digital Media has connected us all into a new one. We’re the Connection Generation. Connection Technology has made it […]
Book Rapper Context: Movies and Blogs
Have you ever wondered where the word ‘movie’ comes from? Usually, when something new is invented, it takes the name of some thing that exists, something that is already familiar to us. For example, the internet was once called an ‘information superhighway’. The ‘car’ was the ‘motor car’ which came from ‘motor carriage’. Before that, […]
Future Blind Part 2: Photoshopping
In another case of the ridiculous… the French lawmakers are considering making photoshopping illegal! Last week, we had the Victorian government body Vicroads bringing in laws to limit GPS enabled smartphones only to be used as phones within a motor vehicle. We labelled this a classic case of ‘future blind’ where some one makes a […]
How do you gather your information? Search Engines or Social Networks?
Mike Hickinbotham on LinkedIn asked an interesting question: “Will people prefer social networks over search engines to gather information” Here’s my response… Social networks are taking over from search engines for the less specific questions we have in life. Google is great at finding specific things. It’s like using the card catalogue or computer at […]
Future Blind
Every now and then someone comes along with a comment or a decision that suggests they are blind to the future… and in some cases, blind to what’s going on right now. Well, in a blindingly stupid move, VicRoads, the Victorian Government’s roads and traffic authority, are intending to ban the use of mobile phones […]
Made to Stick and the Sticking Point – Update
The Made to Stick book has become a classic. I know that because it now has it’s own Wikipeda page. Now, that’s an interesting measure of SUCCEs… Frank Sinatra sang about New York, ‘If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere’. Perhaps, Wikipedia has now replaced New York as the centre of […]
Made to Stick: How to Live Forever
* Based upon your feedback, my posts have been getting a bit long. So, I’ll split the updates into two. The first will be the context piece from the Book Rapper issue. Then I’ll follow this with the update so we’re all on the same page. The Book: Made to StickChip and Dan HeathMade To […]