Sausage bouquet by Karsten via Present & Correct. Welcome to a new edition of Linkness!
If you only read one thing.
- Satirical piece in the Onion explains why Miley Cyrus’ VMA performance was CNN’s top story. “All you are to us, and all you will ever be to us, are eyeballs.”
Management.
- “No one gets a “20 percent time” packet at orientation, or pushed into distracting themselves with a side project.” Google couldn’t kill 20 Percent Time even if it wanted to | Wired.com
- “…as Apple, Google, and Facebook whizzed by, it has fallen flat in every arena it entered.” How Microsoft lost its mojo: Steve Ballmer and corporate America’s most spectacular decline | Vanity Fair
- Lengthy, fascinating profile of Yahoo’s leader Marissa Mayer | Business Insider
Innovation.
- When an accidental feature becomes your entire business | Forbes
Data and technology.
- Gartner’s 2013 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies: an assessment of the maturity, business benefit and future direction of more than 2,000 technologies | Gartner
Insights.
- What is Medium? The site from Twitter’s co-founders is one year old, and still mysterious | The Atlantic
- Related: What Medium is | Anil Dash
- Why social apps are killing text | Digital Trends
- Why there’s no female Nate Silver: “I doubt we’ll see parity at the Nate Silver level until we’re able to make the mainstream media a safer place for women to speak their minds” | Salon
Creativity.
- Why the artist David Hockney has a love-hate relationship with technology | Smithsonian Mag
- Emerging from a bad mood into a good mood can make you more creative | HBR
On Nextness this week.
- Sex, Drugs and Helvetica: Moon’s Linda Jukic lays it on the line.
STW Group news.
- R U OK? Foundation launches quirky convos campaign to help prevent suicide via OgilvyOne: ruokconversationstarter.com
- Related: ”Humour is not the answer to suicide prevention – or any other serious social issue – but it can be part of the solution.” Using humour as the gateway in the toughest brief of them all | R U OK?’s Rebecca Lewis in mUmBRELLA
- Switched on Media is a finalist in the BRW GE Mid-Market Awards.
- “For many STW businesses, STW itself is something powerful that ‘stands behind them’, and which gives them confidence and credibility when pitching for work against other agencies…” | Wrestling Possums
- Industry calls for ‘cash for tweet’ code feat. Carl Burgmann, digital strategist from social@Ogilvy.
- “although content is important and integral to today’s marketing, it is useless without context.” There’s a new C word in town | The White Agency
- STW Group PR firms make their mark in the Sabre Awards 2013.
- KFC says it with chicken again.
OMG | cool | wow.
- Oh dear. Selfies at serious places.
- GIF Brewery: the less tedious way to create GIFs.
- Just Delete Me: A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.
- About time! Kickstarter is launching soon in Australia and New Zealand.
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