Culling is usually only required when natural selection, or more precisely nature itself, fails to control relative populations of species in an ecosystem. It’s either natural selection or culling. One or t’other. Well I’ve used both to reduce the number of people I follow on Twitter. One of my …
William Thatcher (aka Ulrich Von Lichtenstein, and played by the late Heath Ledger RIP) is the hero of the highly under-rated film A Knight’s Tale. He is a commoner who accidentally on purpose becomes a knight. Here’s a trailer for the film. It’s well worth a regard if you haven’t …
What’s all this about then? These started appearing in spaces usually reserved for Facebook advertising yesterday. Pretty random to say the least. Random in that I can’t see the point. Random in that there doesn’t appear to be much in the way of rhyme nor much in the way of …
Every time you say “social media” someone somewhere drowns a kitten. I said this during a presentation at the Social Media Academy‘s “Social Media In Scotland” conference a few weeks ago. I said it with the best intentions. I was trying to make the point that lazy language can be …
F*ck, sh*t, p*ss, c*nt. People are overly coy with their use of vowels in four letter words on Twitter. To avoid the risk of upsetting people, and (woe of woes) becoming the victim of a mass unfollowing, they replace said vowels with an *, or a £, or a $. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
As usual I’ve been slow on the uptake with celebrity news. Danny Baker has cancer. And I find myself caring quite a lot. I met him a long time ago, and only briefly. But he made a lasting impression on me. He had been the compère at a Bass Brewers …
Imagine my surprise (and delight) at finding myself in the car talking to my kids about the seminal 1977 Meatloaf album Bat Out Of Hell. Prompted by them I hasten to add. They having been prompted by the live TV butchering of the eponymous song by this year’s enduring X-Factor …
