Category: Society

  • Internet speed

    Although the numbers  have magnified in the year that’s passed since Intel published this graphic representation of what’s happening every minute on the internet, it’s still a terrific visual snapshot of the huge scale and scope of what technologies are…

  • Tweet catches on in the OED

    The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the premier British dictionary of the English language – or, as its tag line states, “the definitive record of the English language” – adds new words from time to time, as well as evolved meanings…

  • Broken trust and unfulfilled brand promises in Meaningful Brands study

    The just-published 2013 Meaningful Brands study from French marketing and communications group Havas contains useful metrics and insights for business leaders, marketers and communicators, along with big uncomfortable realities about what consumers think about brands. This worldwide study into the…

  • Experience innovation

    When Jaguar Cars launched the F-Type sports car, the 13-minute video made by Ridley Scott’s company in April for the US market captured my imagination in one area especially – the sound of the car’s exhaust. Added to the high-definition…

  • Google-ability key to the High Street experience

    The arguments about ebooks versus printed books, the disappearance of the High Street book shop because of the practices of supermarkets, Amazon and other online retailers, more people self-publishing, and the rise of showrooming (and webrooming) are unlikely to stop…