“Foster’s for breakfast”, in my student days, was shorthand for a certain type of holiday. A type of holiday whose opening ceremony would be a few early morning pints of the Amber Nectar in the airport lounge. The breakfast of champions. Well Foster’s has replaced the early morning pints with …
I saw Bruce Springsteen play Wembley Stadium (the old one) in 1985. And I saw The Rolling Stones play Wembley Stadium in nineteen ninety something. Two big brands. Same platform. Both with access to an engaged community of 70 odd thousand fans. Two very different approaches. And two very different …
I pointedly haven’t read any of the recent posts predicting the death of RSS. And I’m pointedly not linking to any of them here. Because, whatever those posts say, they’re talking bollocks. Google Reader is my favourite piece of social technology. The probability of it delivering something that I’ll find …
This blog is not immune to turn-of-year introspective reflection. And if collating your favourite posts of the year is good enough for BBH Labs, then it’s good enough for me. But I thought I’d do it with a bit of a twist. The Labs guys curated the ten posts that …
It’s not often that a TV ad stops you in your tracks when you have your back to the box. But I had a “bugger me someone’s got Morgan Freeman to voiceover their ad” moment yesterday. You can recreate that moment by pressing play below and turning your back on …
Norman Mailer told me to stop being a fucking pussy. I went to see him speak at the book festival and asked him a question at the end. What did he most regret doing, what did he most regret not doing, and which was the bigger regret of the two? …
Unless stories of its demise are greatly exaggerated, the social bookmarking service Delicious is not long for this world. This is really sad news. It’s also a wake-up call. It’s sad because Delicious is one of my favourite web applications. A searchable database of my favourite links, tagged by me …
I’ve had cause to send several large, camel-sized files recently to clients whose firewalls act like the eye of a needle. The alternative options in these circumstances include Basecamp (for clients with whom we have Basecamp communications already set up) or third party services such as YouSendIt. These work just …
For proud read lazy when it comes to sponsorship. As in “proud sponsors of”. You can tell they’re lazy. It takes no effort to describe your relationship with a sponsored entity as “proud sponsors of”. And if you put no effort into describing your relationship it’s a safe bet that …
No names no pack drill in this post. I looked on yesterday as opportunity knocked. Opportunity knocked to create some high credibility, high visibility, on-brand noise for one of our clients. Trouble was that the opportunity in question was of the social media variety. Also known as the serendipitous, unforeseen, …
