I blog therefore I am… …obliged to post a review of the year past. Well fuck that for a game of soldiers. Tweetdeck is amok with links to review and prediction posts already. They’ve even managed to displace the “7 ways to write a list-based blog post” brigade. And I …
Optimise for humans, not for robots. That’s always struck me as good, sound SEO advice. Write good, relevant, useful stuff for human beings and the Google algorithm that is doing its best to direct humans to good, relevant, useful stuff will reward you. Don’t waste your time trying to game …
I posted this image to Twitpic a while back, with the comment that Noel Gallagher looked more like his Spitting Image puppet than his human self. The Spitting Image puppets were three dimensional caricatures of famous people, mainly politicians, that were used to extreme satirical effect. And I got to …
I’ve drastically restructured my approach to Twitter. This goes waaaay beyond my “Twitter cull” earlier this year. Back in May I wrote about how and why I’d cut the number of people I followed by about 200 (from 968 to 770). This time I’ve gone from following 945 accounts to …
My wife trained as a nurse. Before we had kids and left London she worked on the oncology/haematology ward at The Royal London Hospital, where the care provided to patients and families was as much emotional as it was clinical. This stood her in good stead when, as part of …
I have a few shares in Standard Life. They are my scant reward for having taken out endowment policies with them back when “you couldn’t lose” with an endowment mortgage. (FFS). Those endowment policies made me a Standard Life member/owner back when it was a mutual organisation. The process of …
I know how I’m going to die. I know how I’m going to die because the Machine Of Death told me. I read about the Machine Of Death in a book. I heard about the book because it was an Amazon best seller. The book was an Amazon best seller …
I put together this presentation for an “Inspiring Minds” event by The Marketing Society. It’s a simple framework for thinking about “social media” strategy whilst avoiding the pitfalls that can arise from the very term “social media”. I always present with pictures rather than words so the embedded presentation below …
Let your next book be a revelation. That was my plea to Bret Easton Ellis when I reviewed Imperial Bedrooms. We shall see whether the next book he writes is a revelation. What I can say is that the next book I read absolutely was. Here is a video of …
This tweet appeared amidst a Tweetdeck sea of grief and eulogies, prompted by the death of Steve Jobs. I caught my breath a little. And I was caught in two minds. On the one hand it was classic, no-holds-barred Mash satire. Funny, frankly. On the other the Mash tweet “broke” …
