…a bottle of 2003 Merlot from Origin. 2 for £8 in Threshers. Rather good.
Archive for 18 February 2004
I don’t actually like DJ Danger Mouse’s Grey Album – it reminds me less of a remix and more of two randomly chosen CDs playing simultaneously, and some of the reviews have tended towards the emperor’s-new-clothes school of fatuous fawning.
But it’s got up EMI’s nose, and that’s good enough for me. Here’s where you can download it – get it before the cease-and-desist nastygrams start flooding in…
Says the BBC. So I guess that means it’s back to campaining as usual.
I’ve often thought the postings on Corante and Many2Many get a bit on the pseudish side, but this is a rather good definition of the difference between online communities and social networks.
Here’s some more notes that I made during the Sumantra Ghoshal lecture last week. I still haven’t found looked for the reference, but he attributed it to Rosemary Stewart (Stuart?) during the lecture itself…
Overcoming traps of overwhelming demands
* develop an explicit personal agenda, then start to link up short/medium/longterm goals
* slow down: reduce, prioritise, organise demands
* structure contact time
* manage expectations
* conciously build social networks
Every so often you hear about companies that have a collective corporate sense of humour failure, sue or otherwise attempt to intimidate the little guy, and end up with massive amounts of PR egg all over their faces.
The flip side to that is the little guys who have the presence of mind when faced with the writs and supenas (supeonas? supeanas? who knows? who cares?) to maintain a sense of humour and basically take the piss out whoever it is who is suing them.
This seems like one of those little guys – the big bad ogre of Redmond seems to object to the use of ‘Lindows’ as a tradename – so rather than roll over and rename it to something (allegedly) non-infringing, instead it’s now known as Lin—s, aka Lindash. Short of explicitly saying “up yours, Gates”, the Lin—s website couldn’t make it much clearer…
