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Every day we scan hundreds of blogs and mainstream media for choice content that we think you should read/imbibe.

We’re picky and deliberately avoid articles that make it to the mainstream because this just adds to the echo chamber. The result is a manageable set of hopefully useful links that you may not have ordinarily come across.

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If you haven’t already subscribed then here’s what you’ve missed over the last couple of weeks:

Is Unilever running out of ideas? (31 July)
Thinking about design research? (31 July)
How big is the free economy? (31 July)
Portugal signs up for 500,000 Intel Classmate laptops (31 July)
Segment Watch: the businessthlete (31 July)
On broadband and oil (30 July)
P&G goes for design thinking (29 July)
Insight (27 July)
The World is Flat, for free (24 July)
The magic of marketing (24 July)
Ted Mininni: newly minted expressions? (22 July)
NEC technology identifies person’s age and sex, delivers targeted ads (22 July)
30 somethings & Age: a generation of denial (21 July)
John Steel "Planning at 40" (21 July)
The accountability of research (21 July)
Emily Bell: If Google should falter, how many others will follow? (21 July)
New face recognition system helps stores to identify VIP customers (18 July)
Nudge (18 July)
Georgie in Campaign (18 July)
Is user-friendliness a sure marketing bet? (13 July)

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