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Entries Tagged as 'Ideas'

Dale Carnegie of the iPod generation?

May 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, General, Marketing, Opinion

Malcolm Gladwell is touring the UK to mark the publication of his new book, What The Dog Saw (2009) and last Monday I attended his Oxford show to witness first hand his extraordinary entertaining alchemy of story-telling and intuitive thinking.
A staff writer with the New Yorker magazine since 1996 Gladwell was in 2005 named one [...]

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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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