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My friend Dave Hampton - aka the Carbon Coach - nudged me to highlight the premiere of The Age of Stupid , a film designed to get audiences to re-consider their personal self justifying defences around the issue of climate change. Ever the cynic, normally... Read More
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In this post Ben McConnell finds the good news in the bad news about marketing budgets. We agree with Ben. Certainly the areas of our business that are very relevant to the problems faced by our customers: virtual events to get around travel freezes;... Read More
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That's it I'm retiring from social media. It doesn't get any better than this. Out of the blue, Gene Hunt (fictional Life on Mars detective from the 70s) starts to follow me on Twitter. Better than that even, he really is following me on Twitter... Read More
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Here's the agenda for our 2008 Seattle Offsite. Doesn't look like there'll be too much PPT then. Nice job Kathleen.... Read More
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Seeing any Government representative being blunt about their motivation is refreshing. Apparently , the Chinese stuck a photogenic nine year old girl in front of the huge TV audience for the Olympics opening ceremony, lip syncing to the voice of a different... Read More
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My colleague John was underwhelmed by the science underpinning my Euro 2008 prediction : Germany (least TVs per household in Europe) to win, following no UK teams even qualifying (UK has most TVs per household in Europe). But it's August ... Obviously... Read More
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Metia is twenty years old tomorrow - Friday 25th July - as you'd imagine, everyone at the various Metia offices around the world will be celebrating with a glass of champagne or two. If you too want to wallow in nostalgia for 1988, I can recommend... Read More
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It's in the data. I mentioned before some research work our client LG Electronics had undertaken investigating Europe's TV viewing habits ahead of the upcoming summer of sport. One data point caught my eye. UK citizens own the most TVs per household... Read More
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Another reason to be jealous of Cristiano Ronaldo - as if the salary, the medals and all the awards weren't enough - now its official, your girlfriend probably fancies him. According to 12,000 European women, Ronaldo is the hottest property in world... Read More
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Our own government in the UK simply has the wherewithal to lose huge volumes of its citizens' personal data (current location, we know not where). And only using CDs via pigeon post too, so no points for technical innovation even. But hats off to the... Read More
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Having glibly introduced the subject of Phorm in the previous post, I spent a little longer looking at the storm brewing around it. Its interesting on a number of levels. Phorm looks to be following Dell's well trodden path to online purgatory. Of course... Read More
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I'd never heard of Phorm until it got embroiled in the broader debate about control of personal data derived from web usage. I had even listened to a Tim Berners Lee interview on this topic where, reportedly , he was obliquely criticizing Phorm but without... Read More
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A colleague forwarded me this Out of Office message... Thank you for your message. I, however, am attending a funeral on Friday, with, shall we say, rather limited network access. For quick assistance nonetheless, please text (SMS) me on... Despite the... Read More
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Jeremy Beadle died of Leukaemia this week. The sub head of his obituary in the Independent was: Loved and Loathed TV Prankster . Which is both a blunt and accurate statement for his obituary. I can't honestly say I was one of his fans. In recent years... Read More
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Jeff Jarvis has a great post on the new metrics now available to track the progress of the US presidential race, from Twitter followers to odds quoted by a bookmaker. Some of these methods wouldn't translate for a brand or a business but its is amazing... Read More
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