Whilst 2 Bad Mice are thought of as hardcore, I think of Hold It Down as my all-time favourite pop record – that is pop as perfectly formed music confectionery rather than raw popularity. FACT magazine has a great article rehabilitating 2 Bad Mice for the Hoxton set, but I don’t care I love their [...]
Counterfeiters: Foes or Friends? – counterfeiters act as market-makers for luxury brands UK brands adapt on social media: News from Warc.com – interesting with Ash Choudhury about Nokia’s social media approach Underpinnings of the Internet Shift – NYTimes.com – interesting the way governments are subverting the freedoms of citizens in developed countries. This is probably [...]
Really interesting presentation on why marketing and advertising is different between China and the west. 14 Brand Considerations for Advertising in China View more presentations from Dr Matt McDougall
Most professional politicians in the West are lawyers, trade union officials, civil servants, politicos or PR people by background. Vladimir Putin is a former intelligence officer and still known for being an action man, so it was only a matter of time before he got his own comic strip. Superputin is a fantastically drawn strip [...]
I was in the Architectural Association one lunch time looking at some of the exhibited work and this quote was on the stairwell as I headed to the bar area. The quote really resonated with me; relatively few of us have been so desperate or so lucky; that we have truly been tested. Something to [...]
Google Adds Flight Schedules to Search | Search Engine Journal Data Wrangler – this looks better than Google Refine, ideal for cleaning up data with surplus syntax 8 Essential Tricks For Publicists Using Facebook – interesting that URL shorteners have such a negative effect Mobile Users Just Wanna Have Fun – mobile seems to be [...]
Edelman have some great data points in this custom research. If I was an entertainment brand I would be concerned about the drop in perceived value of their product to consumers. It’s also no longer important to be on top of the latest entertainment as it comes out. It may be the economy, or it [...]
One of the least useful tools in many businesses now is the 360 appraisal. It doesn’t really tell you that much apart from if you are a douche bag or a mensch. Being on Twitter for far longer than is healthy, I decided to use the titles of lists that featured on Twitter to shine [...]
Ross Perlin on his recent book Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy. Internships have been controversial in agency life and have been portrayed as either an advantage of the middle and upper classes or as exploitation of the young. They are broadly designed to move people from [...]
Teaching English in Korea – A Westerner’s Guide to Korean Culture, Good Manners, and Approximately Correct Social Behavior ASK COOL TOOLS: Q&A Forum I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Creating a coherent social media strategy / we are social Experian Hitwise – Experian Hitwise China launch and micro-blogging in China US Intelligence [...]
Shamelessly inspired by this post over at PR Moment: People assuming that everything is as malleable and easy to change as a press release. Video, graphic design, social media programmes and website builds are some things that don’t do mission creep well and once you set them on a run you have to stay the [...]
I got an email from eBay promoting that it was selling 500 Samsung Galaxy tablets at a discount. It was an interesting tactic probably being used as part of a wider campaign to try and get a critical mass of tablets out there and hopefully build a bit of buzz in the face of Apple’s [...]
Some dumb ass boy racer uploaded this footage without obscuring his friend’s number plate on a tricked out Subaru. Some nice footage of Hong Kong at night though. I understand the attraction: great roads, boredom and mainstream culture flaunting the car as a way to freedom a la Initial-D, Bullitt and The Fast & The [...]
Intel pushes meego – The Inquirer Mobile Insights from Google If You Like Buttons, You’ll Hate The New Nook – AllThingsD Music sales: Indie labels’ market share ’57% higher online’ – Digital Knowledge Centre – maybe they should subsidise the major labels who aren’t doing so well? Quick someone take Ed Vaizey to Corfu and [...]
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