Do you trust me? Who do you trust?
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Sebastian
To start things off, I will score two cheap trackbacks, one from Jason who is bound for Asia and one from Shel who is already in Hawaii. The reason being of course that on Monday I’ll fly to Tel Aviv to join my wife for two long awaited weeks of vacation. I hope to squeeze […]
The Looming Attention Crisis
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Sebastian
Fred at A VC posted an interesting quote by Umair Haque: Herbert Simon said it in 1971, which is that “What does an abundance of information create?” A scarcity of attention basically, right? He goes on to say: Most of us have day jobs. Many of us have families. So we have a limited amount […]
TypePad: Home for now
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Sebastian
As the reader might not know, I am a big hockey buff and delighted when posts from Shel Holtz or Steve Rubel use hockey analogy. That in mind, I am envisioning future headlines like "Scoble signs switches to Expression Engine" or "Chris Pirillo announces to use WordPress". Although there might be reason for concern regarding […]
Listening to Podcasts=Working?
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Sebastian
I was away on the weekend, visiting my mother in the North, also visiting the agency’s main office in Hamburg. On the way I was able to work on my piled up podcasts and audio books. Let’s see, I listened to tapes of Jack London’s "Call of the wild", to Seth Godin’s All Marketers are […]
Cat content?
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Sebastian
Many strategies we use imitate animals, just think of martial arts or design, many of Luigi Colani’s solutions for cars, airplanes etc. stem from adaption of animal behaviour. Likewise, the animal kingdom serves as inspiration for modern communication: networks (spiders), bats… I recently was witness to a much more direct example of communication, one which […]
Who says TV is no education
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Sebastian
"If you plant rice, rice will grow. If you plant fear, fear will grow." Kwai Chang Caine If you plant trust and honesty…