July 2004 

The Pledge of Allegiance - The Powerpoint version. A Slate article by Daniel Radosh.

Edward Tufte - The grumpy genius of presentations and graphical clarity. Buy his essay on the cognitive style of Powerpoint and see excerpt from the New York Times called Powerpoint make you dumb.

Really Dumb Powerpoint (and How To Avoid It) is a two dollar download from Amazon by Seth Godin. It's not a bad reminder of how to do a good presentation. But you might have to get someone in the US to download it for you.

Adland is a blog/community site created by people who do ads. News, comment and swearing. All are here.

Worthwhile is a blog/magazine with an editorial mission to put purpose and passion on the same plane as profit. Worthwhile 'offers a roadmap for business success that is more personally fulfilling and socially responsible'. Contributors include Tom Peters.

I work with fools is a place to tell anonymous stories about your idiot colleagues.

The UK blog aggregator offers a snapshot of the UK's blogging communities. See what they're writing about right now.

And BlogPulse takes it a step further and makes it global. Their technology identifies the 'bursty' trends in blogs - the stuff people are talking and linking about.

Working on an FMCG account? Check out this enormous collection of shopping lists to understand how people think about buying.

And then read the Inherently Compromised blog ('Life working the night shift in the warehouse of a branch of the world's largest retailer') to understand why so many bits of POS never get displayed properly.

Got some sites to suggest? Want to submit a collection of links for us to put up? Email russell