Posted in The Auricle (www.auricle.org) by Derek Morrison, 25 June 2011, updated 28 and 29 June 2011 “Publishing may be in trouble but storytelling is not. Authors such as Amanda Hocking are understandably giving the industry the jitters. Hocking didn’t succeed in getting her young adult novels into print in the traditional way, so she […]
by Derek Morrison, 23 June 2011 “… do not use Twitter as an old-fashioned marketing tool. Because it isn’t. The old way of marketing is sending, the new way of marketing is about dialogues, personal conversations, and one-to-one advice.” (Pay With a Tweet is Spam, FutureBook, 20 June 2011) A message there for us all […]
Here’s one for politicians, leaders and project/programme managers of all types everywhere. Success is ephemeral but the possibility of chaos is eternal (paraphrased from Niall Ferguson’s High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg, 2010, Allen Lane). One of the great “benefits” of accumulating years is that you get to be a participant in, […]
Television did it. It remains an enormously powerful medium. It brings human beings — their eyes and faces and thought patterns and personal effects — into your very living room. It shakes up existing feelings. It floods the frontal cortex not with policy but with personality. Whether I always agree with him or not does […]
by Derek Morrison, 8 April 2010 Clay Shirky’s online essay The Collapse of Complex Business Models (1 April 2010) should perhaps give all leaders of all types of organisation serious pause for thought. The key message of Shirky’s piece appears to be that leaderships and elites are comforted by organisational and bureaucratic complexity but that […]
“What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. Click. No time to stand beneath the boughs – click, click – and stare as long as sheep or cows. Click, click, bloody click … photography, once a noble art, has become, thanks to the move to digital, a […]
The UK Independent is running a series of four essays this week to mark the first decade of the 21st century. The second essay this week was titled Has the Internet Brought us Together or Driven Us Apart (8 December 2009). It’s a good reflective piece by Johann Hari. The following extracts give a flavour […]
by Derek Morrison, 12 November 2009 “Sometimes we don’t just want to see what’s at the top of the haystack but the needle that is buried somewhere inside that no one has linked to.” Victor Keegan (Why I’m searching beyond Google, Guardian, 11 November 2009) Keegan offers a number of useful insights in this article […]
