Vex Appeal is a weblog and collection of projects by Guy Parsons, a game designer, online community and digital strategy dude in London, England. Read more about the saucy butcher boy here.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Good post on Culture Making about the shift in corporate discourse from the stuffy and jargon-filled to the happy, smiley Innocent (tm) tone of voice. Namely: it's starting to get a bit annoying. My take is that Innocent is a bit like one of those genuinely great people you meet and want to be a bit more like. But they aren't cool because of what they do or what they wear or the jokes they crack* - they're cool because they're sincerely themselves. The real lesson is that if you're a good company doing good work, relax, and speak from the heart. If you've got something to hide, feel free to try and hide behind meaningless biz-speak, or as seems to be more and more the case, a lovely but equally meaningless cute sweet pile of sugar and daisies and flowers and stuff.
Bad post on the usually great Penguin Blog in reaction to the guy who sent out thinly-disguised versions of Jane Austen's work to publishers, most of whom (including Penguin) just sent him form rejection letters. (Article.) Massive sense of humour failure in this point-by-point dissection - the response Colin was looking for was "Haha, blimey, sort of embarassing from one angle, but on the other hand, it's pretty much the industry standard to send out form letters to any and all rejected manuscripts, so I wouldn't read too much into it if I were you." Instead it comes off as a bit of a curmudgeonly response to a kooky And Finally... news item. Hilarious response in the comments, though:
Jokes. Does Lassman really think publishing companies can take a joke at their own expense? Well, maybe he does. But he's wrong. We can't.Ace.
WE CAN'T!
*Note: this excludes the people who actually are cool purely due to what they do, the clothes they wear and the jokes they crack. And to these people I say: well done! Because the obvious other lesson you can draw from my argument is that if you are, in fact, a tosser (or corporate-scale equivalent) for the love of god at least try and pretend you aren't.
Labels: branding, culture making, innocent, penguin, publishing