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Douglas Coupland's Generation A and how the Channel 3 news team gets it

Random House is doing its thing again for Douglas Coupland and his new novel 'Generation A' with a campaign that puts the author and his words centre stage. The new book mirrors his best known novel 'Generation X' (kind of) in that it...

Posted Sep 22 2009, 12:00 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Douglas Coupland, Generation X, Generation A, Crush, Random House

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Why Microsoft will never be cool

So Microsoft is making a bid to be cool. Can it really ever make it? In a word no. Microsoft is never going to be cool, Jerry Seinfeld or not. The truth is that Microsoft has never been cool and it never will be. It produces very good, but quite dull...

Posted Aug 21 2008, 12:14 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 13 comment(s)

Filed under: Apple, Douglas Coupland, Microsoft, branding

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My favourite Bill Gates story

It's Bill Gates last day at Microsoft. Luckily we now have Eric Schmidt at Google to blame stuff on. He is the new Bill making the real Bill seem much less evil. I have heard lots of Bill stories over the years, but one of my favourite Bill stories...

Posted Jun 27 2008, 11:11 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Douglas Coupland, Microsoft

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The Facebook factory

While the second internet boom has settled and, for now at least, there might not be billions to be made, there is still a lot of buying going on, but it’s the small stuff and a lot of it is happening around Facebook. You've seen them. Those...

Posted Jul 12 2007, 09:57 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Douglas Coupland, Facebook, social media

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Redefining McJob

McDonald's is trying to redefine this Generation X slacker term to mean something better than an "an unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, esp. one created by the expansion of the service sector". Good luck. Well that's what...

Posted Mar 20 2007, 11:39 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Douglas Coupland, Generation X, McDonald's, McJob, Richard Linklater

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Dating Ronald

Have you ever given much thought to Ronald McDonald's sex life? No me neither, but someone has. In his new novel 'jpod' (a sort of follow-up to Microserfs) Douglas Coupland devotes much time to Ronald's sex life. It must be something to...

Posted May 30 2006, 09:21 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Douglas Coupland, McDonald's

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Douglas Coupland's Generation A and how the Channel 3 news team gets it

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Why Microsoft will never be cool

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My favourite Bill Gates story

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The Facebook factory

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Redefining McJob

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Dating Ronald