OK, so I know I’m taking a blogging sabbatical but I’ve been asked to put this up: Enjoy. I’m not in it.
Archive | October, 2007
This may be an ex-blog
In case noone’s noticed, I haven’t posted for nigh on three weeks now. I’m not sure why this is – I just seem to have stopped. I started the blog around last Christmas as part of a ‘Things I Must Learn About’ list, which also included stuff like RSS, aggregators, wikis and the like. Since [...]
And if you thought the ‘Exploding Colour’ Sony Bravia ad was cool…
… check this out (first seen over the weekend): Here’s some background to it: “A team of 40 animators spent three weeks choreographing the models to create the 100,000 still images required to produce the 60-second ad.” Yes, that really is clay-mation. It’s by Fallon, they of the other Sony Bravia ads, Cake Skoda and [...]
Not going to the Flackenhacks
It’s been a while since I last posted – the longest hiatus bar holidays in fact. This is quite simply because I haven’t been able to think of anything interesting to say. Or it could be a worrying sign that I’ve learned all I needed to learn from blogging. My blogging is flagging. My posting [...]
A double-decker bus is this big
A perennial problem in copywriting is trying to convey sizes, lengths or weights. So something is 348 metres long. Great. Try making it real in the reader’s mind. How about we say it’s the equivalent of nearly 42 double decker buses? The marvellous chrico Double Decker Bus Calculator is your key to unlocking this particular problem. Simply [...]
Sieving through the mud to find gold
It’s easy to overlook the search terms people use to find your blog. But instead of discarding the ’weird’ entries, take another look: you might pick up on an emerging trend. Often, when looking through the search engine terms that have been used to find this blog, I’m confused. Why are so many people looking for information [...]
Marion Jones: Prophylactic PR
So Marion Jones is using the same platform she achieved by cheating, to admit to cheating. In so doing, is she just making it harder for the rest of us to apologise? Or is there just not enough money in it for ordinary folk? On watching the widely publicised video of her ‘confession’ I must [...]
How long can Pandora continue to get it wrong?
On Pandora.com’s blog as at 4 October 2007: Dear Global Pandorans – It’s been a few (painful) months since we had to begin blocking listeners outside the US. Many of you have been writing in for updates, so we thought it would be useful to post the latest news. Sorry for not having done so sooner. [...]
Infamy! Infamy! Hobson and Holtz…
… have got it in for me! Check out the latest FIR podcast. Yup, that’s me at the end. Your very own FG with its very own music. Many thanks to Neville and Shel for mentioning me in their podcast, and I’m glad Neville appreciated the email I sent him. Actually, I just realised, Neville [...]
Online foam
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Social spume
- Why Google Shouldn’t Bother With a Home Entertainment GadgetThere’s a rumor going around that Google is planning some kind of home-entertainment device — possibly and answer to the (also rumored) Apple iTV. Apparently Google’s living-room product will be Google-branded, controlled via Android phone or tablet and may eventually expand to do things like control your room lights or kitchen gear. It really sounds like a […]Peter Pachal
- List of Corporate Social Strategist 2012 (Buyer/Brand Side, 1000+ Employees)It’s time for the annual publication of the list of Corporate Social Strategists at companies with over 1000 employees (enterprise class) that are spearheading, leading, and carving out social business at today’s modern corporation. The Corporate Social Strategist Defined Is the business decision maker for social media programs – who provides leadership, roa […]jeremiah_owyang
- 15 Fascinating Twitter Employees You Should Follow1. Kris We're intrigued by the tweets of someone that labels themselves as being "unnecessarily coy" and knows that they will someday live in Paris once their days of working with the "Twitter dudes" are through.Click here to view this gallery.You may follow lots of interesting people on Twitter, but do you follow any Twitter employe […]Brandon Smith
- First Photos of Beyonce’s and Jay-Z’s Baby Emerge on Tumblr [PICS]Blue Ivy Carter on Tumblr More than a month after Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed their first child to the world, pictures of the newborn, Blue Ivy Carter, have emerged. A Tumblr blog titled "HelloBlueIvyCarter" popped up on Friday night, displaying five photos of the baby. Blue Ivy was born sometime on Jan. 7. The text on the new Tumblr blog reads, […]Brian Anthony Hernandez
- Revealed: Google Wallet Security Flaw on Android Phones [VIDEO]Don’t give up your wallet and plastic cards just yet — at least, not until Google Wallet gets a security update. The Android-only service, which lets you pay with your smartphone, turns out to have a major security flaw. If someone gets hold of your phone, they can effectively hit the reset button on Google Wallet — and get themselves sent a new PIN number. […]Kate Freeman
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- Groupon: From 'Wildly Profitable' to 'Learning How to Communicate'At a time when both Wall Street and the public may be down on Groupon, the company has hired a 20-year agency vet to handle its PR efforts....(author unknown)
