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A fun game
on Nov 5, 2009 in Google Auto Complete Google's new auto suggest feature is a fun (if slightly disturbing) way to see what the world is thinking. Courtesy of cnet, who typed:"Why would a..."and Google auto completed"... little girl in Yorkshire think Jesus was born in an egg?"You can't bu...
Too late to be popular
on Nov 5, 2009 in Strike Royal Mail The Royal Mail ran ads in a series of national newspapers yesterday calling on its workers not to strike. I hope they work. I don't think they will, but I hope they do.This dispute is going to come down to a popularity contest between the CWU, and Ro...
This needs to be said
on Oct 29, 2009 in recruitment consultants I've just had a recruitment consultant on the phone. Again. This happens a lot. Seeing as half of them seem to find me on Linkedin (not that they'll admit it) and there's a link to this blog on my profile, I'm going to vent my spleen here and maybe o...
Painting the changing rooms
on Oct 27, 2009 in new media football management restructures There's an analogy I've been using for a while when talking about company restructures; painting the changing rooms.It's a reference to football management. When a new manager arrives at a failing team, if he's going to be successful in turning thing...
Sack your creative director
on Oct 26, 2009 in Automatic ads The interwebs have started making their own ads. Be afraid.This is brilliant. It generates random headlines and then pulls an image off flickr to go with them. Just add logo.
Adverts with the X Factor
on Oct 22, 2009 in mini cheddars creative advertising X Factor aviva Was going to post this last week, but I couldn't and we'll come back to that.I don't watch a lot of commercial TV. Football on ITV, the odd Channel 4 drama (Generation Kill is great, but on too late for a school night) and that's about it. That and T...