Advertising Failing On The Net?

While newspapers may be folding, all is not so cut and dried on the Net when it comes to filling the advertising void. Check out what one net guru thinks.

The anarchy of our television reportage

Inside THAI Society

By: BOONRAK BOONYAKETMALA

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejajiva’s critique of the “danger” of mixing fact and opinion together in the form of “news” by the so-called “television news chatterers” is evidently being completely ignored, not only by the numerous practitioners but also by professional associations theoretically enforcing ethical standards upon such people, and the consumers themselves.

Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains

By Brandon Keim

Paying attention isn’t a simple act of self-discipline, it’s a cognitive ability with deep neurobiological roots — and these says Maggie Jackson, are in danger of dying. In Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, Jackson explores the effects of “our high-speed, overloaded, split-focus and even cybercentric society” on attention. It’s not a pretty picture: a never-ending stream of phone calls, e-mails, instant messages, text messages and tweets is part of an institutionalized culture of interruption, and makes it hard to concentrate and think creatively.

The Real Web 2.0 Digital Message

A few months ago we ran a graphic from Kansas-based anthropologist Michael Wesch on his take on Web 2.0 vis-a-vis stuff in the pre-digital age. Now he has completed (and filmed) a presentation to the Library of Congress about why 2.0 matters and how far out it all is. Puzzled by the impact of Youtube and stuff? Spend an hour with Mike and it might just make sense again and put you five years ahead of the loop.

The Stuff Of Random Reality…

 Space and the material world could be created out of nothing but noise. That’s the startling conclusion of a theory that attempts to explain the stuff of reality.

IF YOU COULD LIFT A CORNER of the veil that shrouds reality, what would you see beneath? Nothing but randomness, say two Australian physicists. According to Reginald Cahill and Christopher Klinger of Flinders University in Adelaide, space and time and all the objects around us are no more than the froth on a deep sea of randomness.

Danes Scoop Furniture Award

Denmark’s reputation for innovation and quality are secure after KIRCODAN redefined the process of designing and producing a new range of exotic garden furniture  all without ever leaving the office!

   by Alex Pithie

As Europe’s leading producer of teakwood garden furniture you are always under pressure to keep your designs contemporary, modern and functional as well as useful and representing the highest quality in manufacturing too.
        A tall order for any product line producer and even tougher when you are in Denmark and your manufacturing base is in Thailand, where the teak grows! You need the best designer you can find for the new range, and he has to work very closely with the manufacturing end to ensure his designs work and look as good as his blueprints – at the very least.

Got The Blues?

Exclusive Interview: Mekong Doctor Blues

There are men who live and die by their swords and others who claim to live on their wits. But few are as crazy to attempt survival in this day and age with nothing more than a Fender guitar between them and the devil and the deep blue sea. And The Blues Doctor says his LIVE consultations relieve stress too!

But Bangkok’s Doctor Blues is one who wields his trusty guitar to survive, carving a loyal local fan base while at the same time filling local venues as he delivers some very fine blues music in the process. The Doctor also fronts his band, the very tight and always entertaining MERCY STREET BLUES BAND.

STOCKWATCH: Starbucks The Trend?

Not Just Coffee Keeping Starbucks Shareholders Awake

 

I must admit I hardly believed it myself when I wrote a sarcastic piece back in the mid-1990s about the fantastic growth of the Starbucks group. I thought the global expansion was vastly overdone and almost criminally aggressive.

 

Tongs Ya Bass

 

a Scottish poem by Alex Pithie