Hilary Lost. We delivered on the request made in the video. Everyone got it wrong. I am not going to bother to comment on broad issues here – enough places are doing that already. Not my job. I want to write this sort posterity as an observation.

I truly hope that I am wrong about what I write below. But everything and anything we have all seen to date is that it won’t be. Here is hoping. I am now paused. I am now just watching. (With possible occasional updates to this single post, as things change.)

Read On ...

#Paused

Donald Trump is like Brexit in three key ways

writes Lord Ashcroft. In his piece he highlights ....

First, the Trump and Brexit movements have both harnessed a desire for change that goes beyond dry questions of policy. 

Second, voters are having to decide how much risk they are prepared to take in return for the change they hope for, but whose consequences are unknowable. 

Third, many in the British political and media establishment completely failed to understand that reasonable people might vote for Brexit. 

I think there's a fourth, which I have touched on here. Let's call it manipulation. 

Since Brexit, it has been clear that the arguments for Brexit were very much based on a pack of lies. And the marketing, segmentation, messaging, targeting to the unsuspecting public was driven by a company called Cambridge Analytics.

Down the road, I suspect that someone will probably write something like;

Since 'The Election', it has been clear that the arguments for 'Trump' were very much based on a pack of lies. And the marketing, segmentation, messaging, targeting to the unsuspecting public was driven by a company called Cambridge Analytics.

I thought I would save them the time and write it now.

This just in from Patently Apple. It is about how the new touch bar borrows from Microsoft and it reminded me of this ...

Apple isn't the first to do anything. Mouse. iPad. iPod. to name but three. That isn't the point.

Filed under 'People unclear on the concept.'

This kind of stupidity has been going on for years. I can't believe that it is still happening.

Considering that over 88 percent of respondents named email one of their top-three most important marketing channels, a serious disconnect appears to arise when moving from challenges to tactics, analytics, and investment.

Despite the more than one-third of respondents who report sending at least one-million emails each month, only 22 percent say they invest at least $5000 per month on email marketing.

My take? Two thirds of businesses who do email need to fail. And my guess is that they will.

This is incredible ... 64.9 percent see that "editors dictate content and manually insert that content into a newsletter" as being 'ideal'. They should be ashamed.

"You can trust Jason Calacanis he’s an expert in incompetence."

... first comment under the video.

 This week he appeared with Leo Laporte on 'This Week In Technology' (another show that passes me by without me noticing, since I wrote them off long ago.) So I guess this show was a marriage made in heaven. 

I have commented on my disagreement with Jason  before.  So, here is another one. He might be 

"smart, savvy, driven, adept at many things, passionate, and persuasive."

as Adam Penenberg described him in his article on Pando, but I would argue that he simply does not understand the Apple trajectory. Pando has an interesting insight into who Jason is, however this video commentary was sourced via 9-5

BTW - the illustration above is by Brad Jonas and commissioned by Pando

What is the fuss all about ?

Read All About it.

I think The ' Prof ' at MarketingProfs must be on sabbatical.

The Headline reads :

Four Ways to Market To Millennials (Without Underestimating or Patronizing Them)

Seriously. How about starting with a different headline?

'Hear', 'Engage', 'Inspire', 'Respect' .... seems to be what you need to do.

You mean that isn't what you should be doing for The Silent Generation, The Boomers, GenX or Centennials .... my god no wonder the country is in trouble!

Read The Article - If You Must.

We read a lot about Trump and Gold. Turns out he even models himself on The Golden Ratio. Ok, not really, it is actually the Fibonacci Spiral - but close enough for some - particularly Trump who is even looser with facts.

Read All About It.

To date, Magic Leap has raised nearly $1.4 billion in venture capital, including $794 million this past February, reportedly the largest C round in history. 

$1.4 Billion investment. 

You probably have heard of Unicorns - that is when the valuation hits $1Bn. It looks like Magic Leap decided to up the ante !

A 'Leap of Faith' for 'Magic Leap' - or does someone know something?

Read All About It. Or just watch ... more interesting stuff on their own site.

Via Loopinsight

One comment I did not reflect in my conversation with a couple of Republicans the other night was my final pitch before I left. It went something like this .....

"With the leadership position that the US holds in the world, the most worrying thing that I can think of if Trump wins this coming Tuesday is what the rest of the world thinks. The US has already suffered a massive down turn in the respect that the international community holds. Regardless of who wins, we have a massive job on our hands to get back just to the status quo. If Mr. Trump wins, my guess is that will never happen."

The response ? Verbatim?

"We don't give a fuck what the rest of the world thinks. This is America."

Alrighty then .... remember this from two ex journalists, and thus I assume relatively intelligent.

That said ... if you are at all interested in what the rest of the world is thinking - try this on for size.

Jacob Weisberg talks to the Financial Times Chief Economics Commentator Martin Wolf about the economic future of America under a Trump presidency and its global consequences.

It makes for a fascinating listen. 

More about Martin Wolf here.

Meanwhile ... reminded of this excellent piece of music from David and Pat.

Today New Zealand's Telecommunications Industry officially announced today that "For safety reasons the New Zealand Telecommunications industry, in coordination with Samsung, is blacklisting any Samsung Note 7 mobile phones still held by customers, from 18 November.

This means that Samsung Note 7's will not be able to be used across any of New Zealand's mobile networks, after 18 November.

Read All About It.

I went to see Steven Wilson play last night. Post to come - but during the evening found myself in two very different conversations. Both with 'two old white guys'.

One just before the concert. 

The other in the break. This was the happier conversation.

One guy was saying he was heading down to LA to see Steven Wilson the following day. And that will be the 25th time he had seen him. Maybe my ten or so times aren't as crazy after all ?

He commented that the smallest venue he had ever seen him play was in Wisconsin - in a Bar - couldn't have been more than two hundred people there. Impressive. I raised him an Ace.

Smallest concert I had ever seen him give was in a Record Store in Camden Town, maybe 80 or 90 of us.

Proof :

I saw him play Radio City said my new friend. I saw him play Albert Hall I replied. Nod of mutual respect to each other. 

And then he commented that he had tickets for when Wilson was in town last year and at the last minute had to give them away due to a family funeral. 

My other new friend .. ‘Me too’. Turns out that he had tickets and fell ill, just couldn’t get down to San Francisco. 

Me too. Had the tickets for months - and when Steven was in San Francisco - well - I was in London.

Shared experiences - across time.

I wish there were more reviews and such positivity in the world ... what a great review. Who's he talking about? well here are some links to his blog featuring Mad King Ludwig from the event he attended.

Watch This.

and now 

This.

Full disclosure, Mad King Ludwig is the son of a friend of mine. My only advice get some better sound production into the public domain.

.. it was a movie. It was true. Keep it in mind when you think. When you vote. When you live.

So this post is much more of a test than ever before - having just read this post and watched the embedded video. 

In it Dave talks about two different ways of adding images to posts on 1999.io  It is the Metadata one that caught my eye - so I am going to try it out. And let's just see.

That said - he didn't mention what I consider to be the third way of adding an image - which is 'embed HTML - which allows me to have an image in the actual body copy of the post. But I know how to do that.

Beyond that - what was interesting is that I didn't really learn anything much more about how to add images to 1999.io except it appeared that a function that I thought wasn't available to 1999 users outside of Dave is now available. BUT - I am a big user of Preview and Google Image Search - and in there were some very interesting little tips and hints that I never knew. Thankyou Dave.

Anyway, onwards.

Later - The image in the header is still a Dave only function.

Tickled my funny bone:

Bill Gates: “So, how’s heaven, Steve?” 
Steve Jobs: “Great ! It doesn’t have any walls or fences.” 
Bill Gates: “So…?” 
Steve Jobs: “So, we don’t need any Windows and Gates.
Bill Gates: “Heh Steve, I heard a rumor.” 
Steve Jobs: “What rumor?” 
Bill Gates: “That nobody is allowed to touch Apples there - and there are no Jobs in heaven.” 
Steve Jobs : “Oh no, there definitely are ... but only 'no-pay Jobs'. But that means no Bills in heaven - since everything is free!

Found On LinkedIN.

Sarah Cooper - two back-to-back pieces well worth a read. If it wasn't so true - it would be really funny.

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