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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/richard-huntington-59a3761b9_im-not-sure-how-you-loose-a-concrete-step-activity-7176611831971487744-CMRN It was the agency’s significant birthday and we all got invites. I got a beautiful printed one, personalised. A still from “that campaign”. I knew the address by heart. Many’s the time I’d mumbled it to some cabbie after a long lunch. No one worked there any more of… Read the rest

https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/japans-futuristic-15-billion-smart-city-begins-mass-human-experiment/ He didn’t have a turtle but he liked to think of himself a bit of an idler. He couldn’t bring himself do it on 19th century dress but he occasionally talked to himself in a french accent. He was a flâneur. A real world stroller not one of those… Read the rest

https://www.marketing-interactive.com/kate-middleton-brands-consumer-trust-photoshop-ai Worth their weight in gold. Clients loved her. She had that way of soothing ruffled feathers, gently flattering but firm when she needed to be. They trusted her. Her timelines and GANTT charts were works of art. Security blankets for nervous clients and teams. She only had to pop… Read the rest

https://www.adweek.com/agencies/kristen-cavallo-retires-martin-agency-mullenlowe/ I probably won’t get a gold clock. We don’t seem to do that anymore. . Someone joked about a statue in the ‘verse. Probably just a profile in the trade press churned out by our Comms AI or theirs. It’s been a long time though. I’ve seen some changes,… Read the rest

https://www.marketing-interactive.com/this-chrome-extension-blocks-food-ads-during-ramadan When the publishers and tech companies built the anti blockers some parents just tried to stop their kids. We took a different view. Ads have always been a part of life. Heh we used to shout “Wassup” in the playground. Kids should have full access to their culture, but… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/16/linkedin-wants-to-add-gaming-to-its-platform/ Sometimes I “joke” that it is a full-time job. I mean there’s cultivating my network, pruning followers, planting seeds… Heh that’s an idea for a post “it’s Spring… time to get out in the career garden”. Then there’s commenting, thinking of something witty or current to say that entices… Read the rest

https://www.ft.com/content/892e898f-ca87-4b9d-b1ae-2a56e2bed349 It’s funny really. We all sit there, our ANC cranked up. Cybermen (and women obvs) with our individual soundtracks, chatting. You see little bursts of light as screens flash an alert. If the office was dark it’d be like fireworks. Sometimes we gossip or just catch up. Last night’s… Read the rest

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-forget-chatbots-ai-agents-are-the-future/ We don’t talk anymore. Talking is so last… decade. I mean my Dad does it. Sad. He puts on this very special voice, really par…tic… u… lar, a little bit louder than normal, a bit BBC. At least he’s stopped using the trigger word. I sometimes wonder if he… Read the rest

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009901 They could be worse. I’ve got a mate whose parents are like… no play at all. Well obviously my mate has his ways around that but it’s a lot easier if you have “permission”. My parents are ok with me going anywhere. They take about playing as a good… Read the rest

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/02/27/apple-wants-you-to-be-able-to-touch-and-feel-things-in-ar-or-vr Standing outside the famous shop she thought of just closing her eyes. Of course the look of the things on display were a pleasure in themselves. The perfect design, the craftsmanship was a treat for the eyes. She could look at them for hours but as she turned the… Read the rest