Strategies for Resistance. A visual documentary of subvertising, an essay against the ad-man. … it’s a KickStarter - and right in line with People First thinking.
Needless to say - I made a pledge!
📚 Advertising Shits in Your Head
Strategies for Resistance. A visual documentary of subvertising, an essay against the ad-man.
Excuse the language - but that is the name of the book. The link takes you to their kick-starter.
Funny. Been thinking of doing a kick starter for my book, but I am too busy writing to spend another chunk of time thinking about what the campaign would look like.
Needless to say I have done my pledge - it is such a People First topic that I couldn't resist and as an extra message, the campaign deadline is my birthday. The ether was in alignment!
My thanks to John Wunderlich for the heads up.
Thinking Allowed
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(not just from the ‘other domain’ … all of them.)
I thought this was rather neat. England, Scotland and Wales defined only by the roads in those countries.
Seriously? Just in case you didn’t know that the Tesla is an electric car.
I just tripped over this from a few years ago. It seems to be just as relevant.
”House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings threatened to hold White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway in contempt after she defied a subpoena to testify Monday.”
Stop threatening … just do it already.
GOOD GRIEF
They’re havin' a larf’
A welcome to @krzysztof creator of Diarly and here … a DayONE replacement for those interested AND available on SetApp.
Have to say - lovely app - and I know there are a lot of journal writers out there - so come on over and say ‘hi’
NO. I do not want to see ‘Chief Experience Officers’ … but I do like where he’s headed.
Overheard …
“The problem is you take ‘ignorant’ and then add ‘stupid’.”
Urbano Monte’s Massive Map of the Earth - 1587
1587 .. seriously?
The eternal problem. Sales VERSUS Marketing. He even features ‘sales and marketing soldiers’
As I wrote they might say …
“Your Passion Is Our Satisfaction.”
… to your face but behind closed doors you are just a target that they are at war with.
🎵 Billie Eilish Is the Kate Bush We Need Right Now
”Eilish is an outlier who arrived at a time of need: Despite her couture-in-a-blender look, “
(my bold)
CRM is 30 and Salespersons still hate it.
… and 30 years later people still have no app to manage those corporations.
Eg - try moving house and work out how many people and organizations you need to inform … through a collection of random forms and calls.
Facebook is trying to make the word “private” meaningless.
“But what his presentation elided was the fact that Facebook does not need to see the content of what people are saying in order to advertise to them. The metadata — who, or what (as in a business), you’re talking to, and even where you are or what time the conversation is taking place as it comes together with other pieces of information — provides more than enough information to make a very educated guess about what you’re interested in, to the point that knowing specifically what you are saying adds almost nothing.”
Paraphrasing someone - Doc Searls I think.
”To suggest that by adding up the total set of known and unknown data about an individual provides an understanding of that person is akin to suggesting that by adding up the components that make up a car means you understand the car.
A selection of questions about data that run across two pages in one of my notebooks.
Does the sum of my data describe me?
If it doesn’t why do businesses think it does?
Is ‘my data’ really mine .. do I own it?
When did I give permission for my data to be used by others?
Thoughts
News is a commodity because it is ‘just’ data.
E.g. News: ‘The DOW fell by x’
**Charge for **
- When last
- When next
- How to
- What it means to who
- Why
Information, knowledge, insights, wisdom - that surround news can be charged for and will be bought if any good.
