I stumbled upon this site by David Hudd while looking up some of Bridget Riley’s excellent art today.

It is a site for disgruntled users of Apple PowerBooks with faulty screens to post their grievances in spite of Apple’s efforts at censoring these complaints on their official sites.

“Apple constantly close down, lock or delete any threads containing manufactoring[sic] information, photographs or links …

Reflecting on my post and the ensuing in-depth discussion
Fostering involvement and buy-in – what the cat taught me

The very act of us discussing the very topic of transparency is transparency at work! Isn’t it ironic.

If I were a more conventional business, I would not be engaging in this discussion. And certainly not in public and with someone who could become a potential customer (ie someone I have …

What this Microsoft Office 2007 demo and they will donate $1 to the Smith Family.

There are other fun things to look at too - like the child who thought Microsoft had something to do with toilet paper. This is a nice way to show the human face of a large corporation. And $1 is a nice amount. Well done Microsoft.

Yes, I watched the demo. Now you …

I love these ads. Really clever (not not too clever). And very much appealing to the cerebral and not the visual (unlike most ads).

Well done to the Financial Review.

On Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality, Jeff Kay compares promotional photos of fast food items with freshly purchased and photographed actuals.

Spotted on The Innovation Diaries.

I blogged about being annoyed by Freedom Escapes’ telemarketing calls a while ago.

I recently had a look at the comments. Talk about a mountain growing out of an ant hill (we don’t have moles in Australia). They are obviously still cold calling people. And those who are annoyed enough to go online to vent have subsequently found my site via Google. I also occasionally get personal emails …

I was away in Perth a few weeks ago due to the sudden and tragic death of a close friend. During those 10 distressing days, I had no less than three unsolicited telemarketing calls from two different companies; on my mobile!

1. Whilst I was in a meeting with a member of the clergy regarding the eulogy, an Australian index trading company rang. This was the same shysters …

When I saw this my immediate thought was - why are they showing a broken truss on the box?

Maybe it’s just me…

My friend Natalie Shell has mentioned these people a few times over the years: http://www.the-hub.net/.

“Social innovation” - I really like the sound of that. It appears to be a set of spaces set up around the world to enable those with socially progressive thoughts to get together and make things happen. Go positive change!

The website, however, is a disappointment. There are pretty pictures but …

As I am sitting here putting the final touches on a seminar on business blogging, I caught this “magic media moment” on the news: “an unscripted and unleashed punter giving some big wig in a suit a large slice of his mind on the state of Sydney trains.”

It was a classic moment. One moment there’s the “big wig” spewing the usual PR-contrived rhetoric about …