The Age of Conversation launches today. It is a collection of mostly marketing writers who have contributed some thoughts on what conversation means in the branding world. I found myself among them, contributing a short piece on open listening. The book is available at lulu.com and proceeds are going to charity. We’ve even had our first review. Here is the list of authors for your perusal: Gavin Heaton Drew McLellan CK Valeria Maltoni Emily Reed Katie Chatfield Greg Verdino Mack Collier Lewis Green Sacrum Ann Handley Mike Sansone Paul McEnany Roger von Oech Anna Farmery David Armano Bob Glaza Mark …
I’m just tucking into to David Weinberger’s Everything Is Miscellaneous. (I chose to start reading at the beginning by the way!). In the second chapter, on alphabetization, Weinberger talks about the arbitrariness of classification schemes for organizing knowledge. Everything ordered by human beings is done so arbitrarily, and no one scheme is going to capture exactly the right kind of order that needs to happens. This is why tagging is so important (and I confess to being a lax lately with tags. Perhaps this is a good time to change that practice). “Knowledge is what happens when the joints of …
Theory of Um/Yang – Hwa Rang Do East Coast A short primer on the philosophy of Um and Yang (tags: taekwondo) Philospohy of the Hwarang The ancient Korean warriors, grandfathers of taekwondo. (tags: taekwondo)
Just in the process of buying a beautiful piece of Canadian art for our business and we discovered that accountant said we can even depreciate it. Depreciate it? “Yes,” he said, “but only if it’s Canadian art.” What the hell? Who struck this Faustian bargain for Canadian artists?