This video embodies all that is wrong with Old Advertising: It’s a genuinely touching piece of visual storytelling. It shamelessly checks every box: Story of separation and longing – check. Set in a pure sunlit rural locale – check. Background characters are handsome/beautiful, all-American – check. Soundtrack is a recently popular bittersweet lovesick ballad – […]
Read more "Why the Budweiser Puppy Must Be Destroyed"Fascinating if true. But I have a doubt. UPDATE: Mike Develin, a data scientist from Facebook, has just published a cheeky critique of the Princeton duo’s research – well worth a read. Recently there’s been a splash about a paper that says Facebook will lose 80% of its users before 2017. The authors, John Canarella and […]
Read more "Science says Facebook will lose 80% of its users by 2017"Valve is a fast-growing business in a dying market. They’re one of the biggest forces in PC gaming, thanks to great games and also Steam, their gaming network/app store/publishing platform. But PC sales are in freefall, so Valve has realized that they are doomed. Doomed, that is, unless they make a play for either mobile devices or the […]
Read more "How the Steam Console could disrupt the gaming market"There’s a very interesting protest happening right now: Six women are climbing the Shard in protest at Shell’s arctic drilling plans. Of course, Greenpeace and others have done this sort of thing before. What makes this different is the scale of the activist media operation around the event. It’s a great example of citizen journalism […]
Read more "Lessons in citizen media from Greenpeace: #IceClimb"This is a transcript (sort of)of an Ignite session I just delivered at the Melcrum Digital Communications Summit in London.
Read more "Kill it With Fire: why Gamification sucks and Game Dynamics rule"Today the Guardian launches a new participative journalism platform, Guardian Witness. Like CNN’s iReport, or pure-play citizen journalism outfits like Citizenside, Guardian Witness allows news readers to become contributors and participate in the making of the news. It’s already getting lots of reactions online. So – will it work? 1. Experience The Guardian has form […]
Read more "Six reasons Guardian Witness will sink or swim"My first job when I moved to the UK was as a receptionist at a TV production company in Kentish town. (Well, I was actually hired to move in furniture, but worked up to answering the phones.) The boss there was an energetic, garrulous guy named Ian. He could spin off a dozen concepts for […]
Read more "The Great British Class Survey rides at last"In which are explained the various rules, and variations, of luck-obtention in the finding and picking up pennies on the street When I was growing up, in Montreal, and old enough to just have learned where babies come from, I also learned about penny luck. The idea is simple. If you find a penny on […]
Read more "Rules for Penny Luck"I just got contacted by a young journalist I met while working at Citizenside. She’s graduated from a good journalism school, and is now working for a local radio station – for free – while living with her parents, trying to find a steady job in journalism. Here’s my advice to her. Sounds like you’re […]
Read more "Traditional journalism is being crushed: letter to a young journalist"It’s official: I’m leaving Citizenside to take on a post as Account Director at Edelman Digital. There I’ll be designing interactive communications strategy and working up crisis response scenarios, as well as a whole bunch of other fascinating stuff. I’m really looking forward to getting stuck in. It seems like interesting times at Edelman. The […]
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Philip Trippenbach 