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This might be my favourite piece of advertising ever. My admiration certainly isn’t for its subtlety or production values. What I love about it is what it tells us about human behaviour. We notice things that apply to us, and largely ignore stuff that doesn’t….

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On a flight between Portland and LA last week I sat next to a Swiss lady on her way to Russia for the first time, and I felt a little jealous. Not for the place she was about to go to – she was off…

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I’m writing this three days into my field-research on a really amazing piece of work for a client (who I worked with last year before my sabbatical, on their radio project). They’ve asked me to present to their team at their HQ in early October,…

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David Cameron’s speech yesterday on behalf of the UK’s creative industries came hot on the heels of Danny Boyle’s extraordinary Olympic opening ceremony.

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Simply, it was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.

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Apparently, we’re living in the age of data, so I’m learning statistics at Sebastian Thrun’s brilliant Udacity.com. It’s not that I think that data can tell any story, or answer any question, it’s just that its link to maths has put me off before. I…

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Health warning: This article is very, very geeky.

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When I was in Mysore, India last month, I had some clothes copied. Of course, I feel guilty about it.

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I love my Kindle. It’s one of the instances of a piece of digital innovation that seems “right sized”.

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In preparation for my recent rant, I re-read Russell Davies 2009 blog about all things “Post Digital” 

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