Category Archives: PhD

consumers as producers.

Remember a while ago I mentioned a blog post and a comment about “I don’t want to have a conversation with my toothpaste”? Well I’m preparing to give a lecture on branding and web 2.0 to a group of university … Continue reading

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The 10 perfections & doing a PhD

As and aside to social theory, for r&r, I’ve been studying the Dharma. A few days ago I came across Paramis or the ten perfections. This is what one needs to achieve to be fully awakened, to have bodhisattva, the … Continue reading

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Writing a thesis weeks 1-5

I have been writing for a month. Happy anniversary me. Wooo kool & the gang celebrating good times with me Week one: Really only ½ a week but euphoria at being free to “begin to finish” I experienced joy at … Continue reading

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Stop press! There are lots of people using face book.

Two items have caught my attention in the National media this week. The article in The Sunday Times magazine supplement about face-book, and the feature in the digital planet pod-cast from The World Service on the 29th about an ancient … Continue reading

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Google is the white bread of the mind part 3

Quick bit of procrastination before I get cracking today. I had a hideous day yesterday riddling through Marxs’ theory of general intellect and its’ relationship with the consumer/producer debate. FYI The only way to deal with the likes of Italian … Continue reading

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Going dark with Agent Bauer.

A very important announcement. Like my husband Jack Bauer “I’m going dark” i.e. I am taking leave from the “commercial world of work” to write. It’s all agreed and I have a timeline and everything. This means I am going … Continue reading

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I’m a discourse dancer

I am so giddy. I have been stirred by conversations at work again about the future of marketing, audiences, and social innovation. My belief is everything can be understood through critically engaging with discourse. Yes EVERYTHING. Now I know this … Continue reading

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What has this man got to do with doing a PhD?

I am feelingly slightly moved. I had taken a few days off from the world of work for total emersion in my PhD and have basically done a 48 hour cram job, breaking only to eat, and watch Pans’ Labyrinth … Continue reading

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New Years Resolution or “over tired”

A little window into your heroines’ personal life… 2nd of Jan and I am feeling most doolally. I was full of optimism and gusto for the year ahead but have come to the sober realisation today, that yesterday I was … Continue reading

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The eight types of graduate student

Not my words but an article from The Guardian that I thought was pretty good. Like the author I think I am also probably no 6 with a touch of 2. Why are we postgrads here? Well, for lots of … Continue reading

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