Comments for ocellus http://ocell.us/blog comms, culture, other Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:28:09 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Mine is only two weeks old but I hear the blogosphere is dead by sanator http://ocell.us/blog/2008/11/07/mine-is-only-two-weeks-old-but-i-hear-the-blogosphere-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-120 sanator Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:13:47 +0000 http://ocell.us/blog/?p=68#comment-120 Thanks for making this available! Thanks for making this available!

]]> Comment on Voice and signal in the age of aggregation by eugene http://ocell.us/blog/2009/01/12/voice-and-signal-in-the-age-of-aggregation/comment-page-1/#comment-100 eugene Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:48:54 +0000 http://ocell.us/blog/?p=287#comment-100 Thanks Brian - I think you're right about the annoying part, bejabers. Conversely I'm also annoyed by those copyright-ish tag lines. Yves Smith at <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/" rel="nofollow">Naked Capitalism</a> (I think) does a good job at it - he has this pattern of using long blockquotes, interrupting the quote with comments, and prefacing those comments with, "Yves here. [His comment ensues.]" A completely insignificant but noticeable (and for me enjoyable) stylistic thing. Thanks Brian - I think you’re right about the annoying part, bejabers. Conversely I’m also annoyed by those copyright-ish tag lines.

Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism (I think) does a good job at it - he has this pattern of using long blockquotes, interrupting the quote with comments, and prefacing those comments with, “Yves here. [His comment ensues.]” A completely insignificant but noticeable (and for me enjoyable) stylistic thing.

]]> Comment on Voice and signal in the age of aggregation by Brian http://ocell.us/blog/2009/01/12/voice-and-signal-in-the-age-of-aggregation/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Brian Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:38:12 +0000 http://ocell.us/blog/?p=287#comment-99 I think this would be hard to pull off without being annoying. You could do something completely overt like Engadget started relatively recently by including a standard copyright-ish tag line at the end of every feed post that says where the piece was originally published. I think this would be hard to pull off without being annoying. You could do something completely overt like Engadget started relatively recently by including a standard copyright-ish tag line at the end of every feed post that says where the piece was originally published.

]]> Comment on Voice and signal in the age of aggregation by eugene http://ocell.us/blog/2009/01/12/voice-and-signal-in-the-age-of-aggregation/comment-page-1/#comment-84 eugene Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:41:27 +0000 http://ocell.us/blog/?p=287#comment-84 Rob you ass. Am trying so hard to sound serious here. Thanks for looking though. Rob you ass. Am trying so hard to sound serious here. Thanks for looking though.

]]> Comment on Voice and signal in the age of aggregation by Robert Spychala http://ocell.us/blog/2009/01/12/voice-and-signal-in-the-age-of-aggregation/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Robert Spychala Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:11:35 +0000 http://ocell.us/blog/?p=287#comment-83 first post! first post!

]]> Comment on Urban spam and corporate responsibility by ocellus | Google presents: urban spam and misdirection http://ocell.us/blog/2008/11/08/urban-spam-and-corporate-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-5 ocellus | Google presents: urban spam and misdirection Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:33:41 +0000 http://ocell.us/blog/?p=84#comment-5 [...] wrote about urban spam + corporate responsibility and called out the NYC MTA for its hellacious new advertiser offering - total subway train [...] [...] wrote about urban spam + corporate responsibility and called out the NYC MTA for its hellacious new advertiser offering - total subway train [...]

]]> Comment on Learning from slot machines by Adam Ferrier http://ocell.us/blog/2008/11/11/95/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Adam Ferrier Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:58:11 +0000 http://ocell.us/blog/?p=95#comment-4 Hi. Nice commentry and builds. Rarely do I do this but I agree with everything you and Gareth say. Some of your commentry leaves the VPR thought behind and puts forwards arguements for positive reinforcement of communications. Which is a worthy coversation. On your point about comms having value - at Naked we have a simple analogy for ALL communications - does it give more than it takes? ie at it's most base if your taking 30 seconds away from someone in a TVC are you genuinely useful or entertaining, or if you are getting some kind of interaction happening is the pay off worth the effort? As for Garath's points - these are well made too by John Grant. Marketers need to stop thinking we need to do few things well and do lots of things well and even a few averagely. Hope you keep the blogging going. Hi. Nice commentry and builds. Rarely do I do this but I agree with everything you and Gareth say. Some of your commentry leaves the VPR thought behind and puts forwards arguements for positive reinforcement of communications. Which is a worthy coversation.

On your point about comms having value - at Naked we have a simple analogy for ALL communications - does it give more than it takes? ie at it’s most base if your taking 30 seconds away from someone in a TVC are you genuinely useful or entertaining, or if you are getting some kind of interaction happening is the pay off worth the effort?

As for Garath’s points - these are well made too by John Grant. Marketers need to stop thinking we need to do few things well and do lots of things well and even a few averagely.

Hope you keep the blogging going.

]]> Comment on Mac vs. PC and missing the point entirely by eugene http://ocell.us/blog/2008/10/30/mac-vs-pc-and-missing-the-point-entirely/comment-page-1/#comment-3 eugene Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:04:09 +0000 http://ocell.us/blog/?p=32#comment-3 Testing comment styling. Testing comment styling.

]]> Comment on Mac vs. PC and missing the point entirely by ocellus | Ignore this http://ocell.us/blog/2008/10/30/mac-vs-pc-and-missing-the-point-entirely/comment-page-1/#comment-2 ocellus | Ignore this Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:03:36 +0000 http://ocell.us/blog/?p=32#comment-2 [...] ocellus comms, culture, other Skip to content « Mac vs. PC and missing the point entirely [...] [...] ocellus comms, culture, other Skip to content « Mac vs. PC and missing the point entirely [...]

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