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Happiness and wellbeing – our experience of self

Damien — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:59:35 +0000

Professor of Psychology at at Princeton University, Prof. Daniel Kahneman, has given an exceptional lecture at TED where he discusses the concept of ‘happiness’. Prof. Kahneman shines a light onto what happiness is and it is not what you may think. Watch the TED video of the lecture below and share your thoughts [...]

Glitter in the air at the 52nd Grammy Awards

Damien — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:44:17 +0000

Another year and yet another awards show. Feeling wholly unchallenged I began watching the Grammy Awards anticipating cliched performances with its requisite stable of ‘Idol’ performing ‘Hall of Fame’ inductees. Instead, I re-discovered Pink who presented in my opinion one of the most delicate and thoughtfully conceived performances that I have ever seen. In an age [...]

Freedom of Speech for online Journalists

Damien — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:30:51 +0000

Wired’s The Threat Level blog recently published a disturbing account of how two bloggers late December were subjected to governmental pressure to reveal a source. The Wired article centered around instructions that America’s Transport Security Administration (TSA) issued Christmas day in light of the latest attempted plane bombing by a suspected operative of the [...]

Multi channel attribution & analytics

Damien — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:58:08 +0000

Clever marketers have long sought to track the successes of the marketing campaigns that they run. Well before search marketing and long before online marketing — in all of it’s forms that we are familiar with now — traditional direct marketing was king! DM executives would use a number of different devices, from [...]

Real-time Google search is Global

Damien — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:31:42 +0000

Google have been testing for many months a feed of data from Twitter combined with increased crawl rate for trusted news and blog posting sources (such as the Huffington Post) and have announced today at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA that they have now struck deals with both Facebook and MySpace to [...]