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Dancing data

Posted by Anne on May 19th, 2008

When I was at college, I found presentations based solely on statistics incredibly boring. It was far more interesting to tell and to listen to stories about individual cases. Storytelling based in experience is still the easiest way to captivate an audience. But today almost everyone appreciates how important statistics are. You simply need them [...]

iGoogle Artist themes launched

Posted by Anne on May 17th, 2008

A launch party on the streets of Manhattan: Google took their new product, featuring visuals by big name designers from Jeff Koons and Philip Starck to Dolce & Gabbana and Akira Isogawa, to one of the most interesting areas of New York, the Meatpacking District, and projected the artwork onto the buildings.
What a nice night [...]

Dragon’s Den: Rasam Soup

Posted by Anne on May 14th, 2008

In this episode of

Duffy: Mercy

Posted by Anne on May 13th, 2008

Duffy’s song is my dancefloor ear candy of the year.

Pretty in blue

Posted by Anne on May 12th, 2008

I was pretty blue a couple of weeks ago when my trusty laptop gave out on me – leaving me without equipment at a very bad time, just as I am getting ready to teach my first seminar for Management Circle.

Aretha Franklin/ The BossHoss

Posted by Anne on May 9th, 2008

“The Beauty of Anger”? These funny bad boys from Berlin really exploit every cliché, don’t they, to turn Lady Soul’s and Dionne Warwick’s song inside out completely. What would we do without the battle of the sexes?

The Job

Posted by Anne on May 6th, 2008

“The Job”, a short film by Jonathan Browning, Screaming Frog Productions 2007 takes a fresh new look at the immigrant labor debate: