3ruce’s Blog

These are my links for August 19th

• Liverpool v. Stoke City (19 August): confirmed team and in-game chat – GIVE TOM HICKS A CALL ON 001 214 6152300 (number if dialling from the UK) AND GIVE HIM WHAT FOR!!!!

These are my links for August 5th

• Pseudo Battle: Creatives vs. Research – Locals Still Have No Idea « Marketing Highway – The advertising industry again this week called for market researchers to come clean on the success or otherwise of their vetting of ad campaigns.

  This is an incredibly interesting battle, I’ve found quantitative research is incredibly insightful after things have happened – say to measure the impact a campaign has had, and qual to discover themes and concepts.

• visualcomplexity.com | About – "Functional visualizations are more than innovative statistical analyses and computational algorithms. They must make sense to the user and require a visual language system that uses colour, shape, line, hierarchy and composition to communicate clearly and appropriately, much like the alphabetic and character-based languages used worldwide between humans."

These are my links for July 29th

• viapost – ViaPost: Save money on post by sending physical post direct from your computer – Send physical post direct from your computer to any UK address
  Why?

  * Save money: prices start at 27p+VAT, including printing, stationery, and Royal Mail delivery.
  * Save time: no manual printing, folding and stuffing of envelopes
  * Save the environment: we save on trucking across the country

These are my links for July 24th

• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

These are my links for July 17th

• Michael Jackson Mix –

These are my links for July 16th

• Seth’s Blog: Is marketing an art or a science? – This sort of marketing works when it works, but it usually doesn't. That's because we're dealing with humans, the wild card in the system.

  The other marketers are artists. They inspire and challenge and connect. These marketers are starting from scratch, creating movements, telling jokes and surprising people. Scientists aren't good at that.

These are my links for July 15th

• Google’s Pitch – KnowledgeToday – Google has been calling on agencies around the world, according to The Globe, "trying to gain ground in major ad campaigns." Its pitch: "Google is an ally, not a rival, in the fast-evolving world of online marketing." One agency executive summed up the mixed feelings his industry has about Google, describing it as a "frenemy, both friend and enemy." Another compared it to Skynet, the network of artificially intelligent computers and robots that took over the world in the Terminator movies.