The WWED Top 10 Posts Today, 25 July, 2011

Please pardon me all. For the last few years I have always published an annual report for WWED. This year I did not as I appended the project and dedicated it to The Morton Report. But we have moved on again and direction is in transit for WWED. I feel often that I have a voice that works and belongs at WWED but I also feel committed to my new venture, A Suspension of Disbeliefs, and to a more international voice and ideas - and so with that I give you the Top 10 posts of WWED over the last 3.5 years and ask for your feedback. Are these your favourites - others?

Here are the Top 10 with hit numbers. I like that Buddhist Funeral Prayer is #1, and that Roller Coaster is #2 just makes me smile - let's me know a lot of people relate to life in many variables. #8 and 9 are both interesting as well as they are about the advertising business in its many variables. But #10, Paris in the 30s - Saigon Today is both one of my favourite writing pieces whilst being a lovely representation of life in Vietnam at a certain point.

The Wild Wild East Dailies Top 10 - 2011
(Make sure to click on the icon before each story)

1.	/2008/05/buddhist-funeral-prayer.html		2,502
2.	/2009/07/my-roller-coaster.html		1,561
3.	/2009/04/is-north-korea-nuclear-threat.html		1,440
4.	/2009/01/chc-mng-nm-mi-or-happy-new-year-in.html		1,426
5.	/2008/08/obama-splits-ticket-boots-biden.html		1,316
6.	/2010/01/xing-vs-linkedin-round-ii-macro-to.html		1,148
7.	/2009/01/coldfusion-by-hot-sex-injection.html		1,147
8.	/2009/02/whats-wrong-with-vietnamese-advertising.html		1,006
9.	/2009/09/is-publicis-groupe-dead-brand-wild-wild.html		757
10.	/2008/07/paris-in-30s-saigon-today.html		752

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If you enjoyed the Wild Wild East Dailies, please see A Suspension of Disbeliefs. I've moved on because I want to broaden beyond Asia, marketing and involve the world and world ideas. And I'd like to write a little better and quite a bit more influentially. A year ago, I had an interchange that simply told me that sheer desire, love and imagination were just massively more powerful than logic. And so I learned a lot. And I believe we can grow well. I realised with the Wild Wild East Dailies that it was never about me at all. It was about the readers. Join us again, please.

A Suspension of Disbeliefs

"The temporary acceptance as believable, events or characters that would ordinarily be seen as incredible. This is usually to allow an audience to appreciate works of literature or drama that are exploring unusual ideas." The term was originally coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1817 with the publication of his Biographia Literaria. The state is arguably an essential element when experiencing any drama or work of fiction. We know very well that we are watching an actor or looking at marks on paper, but we wilfully accept them as real in order to fully experience what the creator is attempting to convey.

The thesis here is that we all create realities that are essentially states of suspended disbelief by our choices of religion, country, political persuation, career, love, belief or not in the magic bullet theory, or choice of architecture. What makes us unhappy is when others fail to share in our beliefs. The trick, over time of course, is to structure a story line that works for us and those around us in real life in the most positive way possible.