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The blog of Ingrid Trollope.

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Combinations Rule

May 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Design

I saw this fantastic and thought provoking ‘rule’ in a post on the Ace Jet 170 Blog.
Ace Jet 170 is an English designer living in Belfast who’s blog sets out to record stuff found over the years and in the future. In his post he is referencing James Webb-Young’s book ‘A Technique for Producing Ideas’ [...]

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Blowing Your Own Trumpet

January 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Design, General, Marketing, Web Design

‘People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.’
(- Seth Godin )
Seth Godin recently discussed this truism of the web in a post:
Boingboing’s ‘Cory and Mark both have terrific books out. And as co-editors on the world’s most popular blog, you’d think that they could use boingboing to sell a ton of [...]

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Facebook Data Findings

December 30th, 2007 · No Comments · General, Social Network Site, Web Design

Several research projects being done on the social network site, Facebook, are described in an interesting article in the New York Times: On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data.
Some interesting findings include:
“Researchers learned that while people perceive someone who has a high number of friends as popular, attractive and self-confident, people who accumulate “too many” [...]

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