Hot New Video Game Consists Solely Of Shooting People Point-Blank In The Face | The Onion – America’s Finest News – the comic genius of Chris Morris’ Brass Eye has obviously been transplanted to the Onion. CHART OF THE DAY: Microsoft Online Still In Last Place After All These Years (MSFT) Epeus’ epigone: WSJ dubbed [...]
I have been thinking about the eerie parallel between the newspaper and PR industries. Whilst the PR industry has stood on the sidelines and wrung its hands about the state of the media (mainly because there is less space for editorial coverage to influence), but it has largely failed to face similar challenges in its [...]
According to Mobile News (Issue 436 April 4, 2009) front page article 3 starts major store cost-cutting drive by Michael Garwood – 3UK will be cutting ties with other 3 businesses ending its 3 Like Home deal in July. The article connects this move with the European Commission’s caps on roaming data and SMS rates. [...]
Chinese Social Networks ‘Virtually’ Out-Earn Facebook And MySpace A Whole Lotta Nothing: This is how Social Media really works Earning Your Media (continued) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – Best Practice Guide | Best Practice Guides | Best Practice | Reports | Econsultancy Digital Domain – Web-Based Competition for Microsoft Word – NYTimes.com How Big is [...]
Earlier on in the year when I was in Asia, I heard from a local businessman that due to the market correction in prices and the drop in the value of the pound against the yen London was now the number one overseas destination for Japanese property investors. In Japan factories are closing or making [...]
I met Richard Sedley in Cyprus when we were both speaking at a conference organised by the Cyprus Tourism Organisation. Winners and losers in a troubled economy proved popular with the attendees. Richard sent me my own copy, and having read it I could see why it was so popular. The book explains in a [...]
Nokia aims to prove there is mobile demand beyond the iPhone » VentureBeat – the Morph nanotechnology video at the end is really cool Dapper and pissed off – Slate Magazine – interesting article about how important appearance and dressing is in Nigerian culture. The right look and an up to date cell phone make [...]
There is a point when super-herodom sounds just like agency life and issue 7 of Deadpool sounds like that point. Sublime genius. Thanks to the Agent M blog over at Marvel.com
I got this email earlier this morning notifying me that the flickr group I belonged to on Facebook had changed its name and become a group for a site that hosted flash games. In essence the group was hijacked. This got me thinking about some questions: What value is this group which is made up [...]
Gimme5 who brought Stussy to UK, have set up drinks to welcome the brand to The Hideout – its clothing shop on Upper James Street. The launch event will feature live graffiti drinks and giveaways. They will be highlighting Stussy’s range of great minds t-shirts which include: Karl Marx, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, William Shakespeare [...]
Much of this morning’s Today programme was given over to research conducted by Natural England on the lack of time that children now spent outdoors in local parks or the countryside. The Cotton Wool Kids phrase is used in the press release to support the research and by the presenter on the today programme to [...]
Causeway Bay’s adFunture Workshop come up with with quality vinyl figures. I am particularly impressed by volume two of the Hiroshi Fujiwara figurine. The ‘G’ symbol relates to Good Enough the clothing brand he founded prior to his current business Fragment Design. It’s on sale April 18 and is an edition 150 pieces. You can [...]
Webinars – how to get the most out of the Webjam platform Digital Hub FM – really nice local radio station site built on the Webjam platform Time to revisit social media sponsorship | Blog | Econsultancy Travelodge launches iPhone booking service | Blog | Econsultancy apophenia: Bernie Hogan: “Networking in Everyday Life” HP May [...]
The Pirate Bay April Fool’s Day page, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Classic April Fool: Warner Bros acquiring The Pirate Bay AB for 13 billion dollars.
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