/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Picking out patterns in the chaos en-us suw.charman@gmail.com 2008-04-29T11:09:53+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/04/29/the_importance_of_pigheadedness.php I just read an essay by Clay Shirky, Gin, Television and Social Surplus, about how the industrial revolution has resulted, after a brief period of societal gin-soaking, in a surplus of time and productive capacity which has been mopped up... 73260@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Business 2008-04-29T11:09:53+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/03/07/media08_death_of_broadcast_advertising.php Assia Graziloi-Venier, head of Ministry of Sount TV (London) and flypaper.tv I'm going to blog a little differently during these sessions. I'm going to seize upon a few things that the speakers say and talk about this. In looking forward... 73145@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ 2008-03-07T03:37:57+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2008/03/04/a_fourday_week.php Kevin and I are back from our honeymoon - we had a fabulous time in Barbados - and raring to go once again. I’m looking forward to reclaiming my evenings and weekends, after months and months of focusing on nothing... 73137@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Business 2008-03-04T21:38:58+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/12/07/cnet_gamespot_and_jeff_gerstmann_controversy_or_conspiracy_theory.php On Wednesday, I spotted a post from Michael O'Connor Clarke about Jeff Gerstmann, a games reviewer and Editorial Director at CNET's Gamespot, who appeared to have been fired for giving a bad review to Kane & Lynch. The game's publishers,... 72921@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Business 2007-12-07T11:05:17+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/12/03/creative_business_substitutes_and_complements.php As part of the Creative Business in the Digital Era project, I'm doing some thinking and learning about business models and microeconomics. This post is originally from the CBDE blog. After my post the other day about business model archetypes,... 72908@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Business 2007-12-03T14:17:54+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/10/25/turning_off_email_wont_help.php Earlier in the week, the BBC ran a package on its Breakfast programme about how Intel has become "the latest in an increasingly long line of companies to launch a so-called 'no e-mail day'." On Fridays, 150 of its engineers... 72802@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Business 2007-10-25T09:34:43+00:00