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Idealog—in the ideas business

  • Farewelling Roger Dickinson—an advertising giant

    2011-01-11 19:11:34 // // The Idealog Blog | 3 comments
    Advertising is famously populated with characters. The cliche is that of the ruthless, dashing fellow, characterised by Don Draper in the TV show Mad Men. There are the Machiavellian, the tortured and insecure, the banal and phantasmagoric; the attention seekers and poseurs. And then there are folk like Roger Dickinson …
  • IMAGE NATION for inspiration

    2010-06-28 11:00:40 // // The Idealog Blog
    If you’re looking for a bit of photographic inspiration, the Advertising & Illustrative Photographers Association has just the event for you this weekend - IMAGE NATION
  • Data hound

    2009-12-04 12:44:07 // // Idealog #24: features | 1 comment
    In a Wellington corridor, Nat Torkington laid down a challenge—and sparked a small revolution. Julie Starr reveals how a loose collection of determined Kiwi innovators are using public data to change the ways that politicians, public servants, companies and people communicate. But is the country ready? Plus streetwise and now open.
  • I’ll be off now

    2009-07-06 10:56:00 // // Idealog #22: workshop
    The ‘nine-day fortnight’ will report for duty at many workplaces this jolly July. On the tenth day, we’ll be rested
  • Wiggs’ World

    2009-07-03 15:25:08 // // Idealog #22: now | 5 comments
    It seems Lance Wiggs is always on a journey. Even home in Godzone, he’s not standing still: he has companies to mentor, connections to make and, on his blog, clueless corporates to skewer. So just what is Wiggs looking for?
  • Adult industry

    2009-06-15 08:48:48 // // Idealog #21: workshop
    Asleep on the job? Perhaps that’s a sign of a productive workplace
  • Damian Conway: Web 2.0.1

    2009-02-20 18:28:12 // // The Idealog Blog
    Damian Conway is a PhD in computer science and, until recently, was honorary professor of computer science at Monash University. He’s a designer, a columnist and an author.
  • Michael Lopp: being geek

    2009-02-19 16:48:30 // // The Idealog Blog
    Michael Lopp is a veteran of Apple, Netscape, Borland and Symantec. He explores the class of people who span both Generation X and Y and that he calls “The Geeks”—a group that has spent the last two decades moving amongst the dark technological fringe and is now a mainstream demographic.