For full effect.. this post should be read whilst listening to Morrisey singing ‘The more you ignore me, the closer I get’ The More You Ignore Me… The recent case from Brasil of the Brastemp customer who created his own one man social media campaign against the company for their poor level of service and [...]

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Today I had the great pleasure to participate in the event hosted by UOL, o Poder Digital. Did you go? If the answer is yes, I would love to know how you got to the event and how you got back to your office afterwards. My reason for asking is related to some of the [...]

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Brasil@Home – which we set up a few weeks ago has had some fantastic posts in the past few days. Many thanks to all of those who have participated. A small selection of their offerings and photos here … Eduardo Zanaletto: “A casa é um simples retângulo de concreto ao qual atribuímos uma porção de [...]

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I’ve just been listening to an interview on the BBC with an academic from Amsterdam who has completed an interesting academic study which has just been released as a book – an ethnography of beauty and cosmetic surgery: Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil. The author posits plastic surgery as part of a [...]

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we have now offically started the brasil@home project… brasil@home é um projeto único para explorar as diferenças e as transformações nas relações que os brasileiros têm com o ‘lar’ Full instructions are on the site – we’ll keep going with some updates here over the next few weeks

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We’ve launched the micro-site Copa 2010 and have already had a good response from football fans here in Brasil. The site primarily hosts our football fan survey but will increasingly grow to track fan behaviour here in Brasil during the up-coming World Cup. We welcome all comments and please feel free to take the survey [...]

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There is some fascinating literature about Dirt as a metaphor for Social Distancing – Susan Sontag’s work specifically. I spotted this at a bus stop today and was wondering if this is part of the Cidade Limpa / Clean City campaign and more importantly … whether anyone actually believes that a clean city is a [...]

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Vídeo realizado para iniciar uma conversa com a comunidade do projeto Dayloggers.

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Depois do artigo da Época falando sobre do Twitter, parece que algumas partes do governo brasileiro passaram a prestar mais atenção para esta nova – não tão nova – forma de comunicação. O governo de São Paulo esta à algumas semanas postando sobre seus projetos e novidades na sua nova conta no Twitter: @governosp Contudo… [...]

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As Twitter goes increasingly mainstream in the UK, as witnessed in its increasing use in radio phone-ins on the BBC it looks like its about to do the same here in Brazil. Or is it? This weeks Epoca magazine devoted it’s cover to the rise of the phenomenon here in Brazil. However, we’re asking a [...]

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