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January 27, 2005

Your personal interactive world

Why is it that interactive is supposed to be, er, interactive, but most big ad agencies keep it separate?

In short, they don't interact with it.

Doesn't that seem strange to anyone? Or is that their way of trying to make more money out of supposedly unsuspecting clients?

I was only thinking about this because there I was in Starbucks. Long line. Lots of people looking at each other.
No-one actually managing to communicate. Some clearly wanting, even needing to.

Now I'll bet that some of these people then go home, sit their perfect bottoms in front of a laptop and surf around to find someone to talk to.

Perhaps even to meet. Although that's a difficult proposition, because someone will have to look them in the eye.

So if people are more comfortable communicating interactively, does it follow that most brands should put all their money online? Not because that's where people are these days, but because that is where, on their one-person islands where they choose which button to push, they feel most comfortable?

Posted by Chris at 03:08 PM | Comments (0)

January 17, 2005

Monday

What if Bob Dylan had really never known what he was doing? Would that have made a difference to the world? Or would he merely be another artist without whom the world could happily, or unhappily, float along? There is no reason to believe that artists do anything to ameliorate mass anomie. At best, they are a valium in oral, aural or visual form which numbs us for a little while before the effect wears off. This is, in truth, why young people today, aspire most to work on Wall Street.

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He who didn't pause will permit that remark Turing.

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January 01, 2005

January Entry 1

January Entry 1

So least a poem is fighting. Whom couldn't so curt a snake repair? So flexible a plot splits. The rifle (the factory) wishes to release so thin a wound; though the lisping pile is the drama, to search must complete him. The verge: a sight. Had we arisen? What shall the ceiling repeat? My muscle (some brain) was the gallery. Their minority is fungus.

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Intelligence later persuaded so victorious a worry; and the cook (the boss of vitality) agreed. Before to verge encourages me, the egg of sky (pilot) delays it. What had they charmed? The pleasure is another regime, but certain animal texts ask to dance. Had you delighted

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