I’m attending TED@PalmSprings for the next few days. I believe it will be quite the adventure – inspiring, exciting, mind-blowing. I’ve already had the privilege of running into a few interesting people, purely by chance and the power of Twitter.

Having Dinner with Chel, Bristol, Matt and Andy was a great deal of serendipitous fun.

I’ll be doing some blogging here about TED and the experience. I’ve already begun accumulating something of a record of my activity. You can read my TED tweets here (everyone’s here) and see my photos from the event (not just the conference) here.

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Clever look at the new age of marketing by European agency Scholz & Friends

While it does talk about engagement and a conversation, it doesn’t mention the principles behind success in all of this. Openness, honesty, clarity, respect for the (former) audience – those in Cluetrain.

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It’s both humbling and a little terrifying that I’ve been ranked so highly in the Australian Marketing Pioneer Blogs list. The company I’m in is a group I highly respect and being included both makes me feel I have a lot of expectation to live up to and that I need to try harder.

In particular, coming in at #4 after not being there prior is no small achievement to maintain.

Thank you, Julian, for putting the effort in to compile the list.

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Apropos of absolutely nothing, this needs to be shared. It’s very funny. Enjoy.

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

You should really click through and read both the explanation and the comments. They’re worth it.

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The title says it all. You can read Renai LeMay’s article here.

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It’s arguably a touch silly, but acidlabs now has its own page on Facebook.

If you’ve got something to say to us (hopefully nice, but we accept brickbats as well as bouquets) or like what we do, drop by and leave a message on the Wall or become a fan.

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I’ll only be taking a short break over Christmas, but just wanted to sign off the next couple of days with the Christmas greeting I sent out yesterday.

I was a little worried that people would think it was dorky and twee to send this, but the reaction I’ve received has been great, so I feel I did the right thing.

If you’re taking a break, do take care, spend some time with your family and think about not driving yourself into the ground next year (we could all do with working smarter, not harder).

Merry Christmas.

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