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Consumer Behaviour: We’re not Buying our Toys Online, we’re Talking about Buying our Toys Online
e-Commerce has greatly affected our behaviour as consumers. Last Christmas, Amazon saved me from the horrors of the last-minute Oxford Street reenactment of the Black Hole of Calcutta in which I traditionally play a role (third Sweating Man in Hennes Queue from stage-left). I ordered all my presents on the site and they appeared, gift-wrapped… more
Multiple Choice Day: Question 5
20% of the “most dugg” stories at Digg are about Digg itself. Are the other 80% about: a) Nothing of any interest to anyone other than tragic digital losers, b) That one guy in Human Resources who smells like chicken, c) Poststructural literary theory, with reference to the works of Julia Kristeva or d) Your… more
links for 2007-06-29
Digg Tools Collection nice demonstration of the ratio between “proprietary” (or first-party) tools, API competition, and third-party tools built from an API (tags: api)
links for 2007-06-14
Motivations for Influence Nice, easy presenting style, covering the virtuous circle of “influence.” There’s a slight assumption made in the last step (“Self worth” -> “Information”). I’m not convinced that this would stand up to investigation. (tags: presentation recommendation viral networks video) Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2007 (tags: news journalism reference research… more
ICA Club lecture; The Democratisation of Advertising (sort of)
Last week’s Club lecture at the ICA was slightly misleadingly titled ‘The Democratisation of Advertising’. I went along expecting a session of user generated, subverted and perverted adverts and instead I was treated to an evening of user-distributed adverts. What would you call it? “The democratisation of distribution?” The speakers included Joel Veitch (he of… more