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The Marketer’s Anthem. Welcome to a new edition of Linkness! It’s the last one for 2013.
If you only read one thing.
- “The Stream” has been the organizing metaphor for the web for the past several years. It’s fun and fast, “but don’t you miss the sense of an ending?” | The Atlantic
Management.
- Instant messaging/chat trumps meetings | Zach Holman
- A method to find balance | zenhabits
- Who goes to work to have fun? | NYT
Innovation.
- Beyoncé releases surprise new album exclusively on iTunes | The Verge
Data and technology.
- When hardware acts like software: “Digital fabrication — the ability to instruct a machine to create a form defined on a computer — is blurring the line between software and hardware.” | Ideas Lab
- “How big is the delta between the kinds of content we want to be seen as consuming and the content we actually like to consume? The answer to that question may determine who benefits from Facebook’s recent moves and who loses out.” | Forbes
- The golden era of spam comments has ended | The Awl
- Just adding a Chief Data Officer isn’t enough | HBR
- Facebook wants to know why you’re self-censoring your posts | Slate
Insights.
- What can we expect from the next decade of marketing? | Forbes
- Why we’re sometimes kind without reason: Our brains are constantly, subtly being primed in fascinating ways by our physical surroundings | The Atlantic
- The fourth wave of feminism: meet the rebel women. “The campaign for women’s liberation never went away, but this year a new swell built up and broke through.” | The Guardian
- The ideal working relationship with a media agency? | Mark Pollard
Creativity.
- Tips for an aspiring writer | The Frenemy
- We say we like creativity, but we really don’t | Slate
- Young geniuses or old masters? What age are people most creative? | Fast Company
- “If that attitude of uncompromising excellence can be applied to sushi, then it can also be applied to whatever occupation you decide upon. Even advertising.” | welcome to optimism
STW Group news.
- OgilvyOne continues to expand.
- Love in the boardroom | Shift Australia
OMG | wow | cool.
- Bill Gates: the best books I read in 2013
- The Verge 50. “These are the people who matter now.”
- Do you subscribe to 5 Intriguing Things by Alexis Madrigal?
PS. No one wants Christmas wishes from a corporation, but to all our friends and colleagues: Merry Christmas!
PPS. On a small personal note, after editing Nextness for three years, this is the last blog post from me, Jessica Stanley. It’s been a pleasure getting to know you all on the blog, by email and on Twitter. Stay tuned for when Nextness returns, with a new team at the helm, next year!