Monthly Archives: April 2007
“How word of mouse makes us all hostages to hype”
Nice double page spread in tonight’s Evening Standard. Well written by Chris Blackhurst and a nice summary of the insanity that is people queuing to buy the £5 “I’m not a plastic bag” carrier bag because they’ve been hyped into buying it. Odd really. I don’t get it myself. I’d feel embarassed carrying one [...]
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Digital better than advertising?
Iain Tait over at crackunit.com has finally finished his Top 10 of why digital is better than advertising. Well worth a read. Try being a bit of a digital geek in a PR agency . . . that’s why we all stick together.
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Wii shortage until 2009?
Blimey. Billy Pidgeon (great name) of IDC has predicted Wii shortages for the next 2 years.
Gaming is definitely on the up. The Wii is firing on all cylinders. Let’s not let supply problems get in the way.
PS – anyone who’s been here before will know I have one and love it. Especially since discovering [...]
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Notes from PR Unspun
Last night I went to the PR Unspun event laid on by Chinwag. Some great speakers (including Neville Hobson who had some great things to say), held together rather nicely by Mike Butcher and some really good little nuggets in there. But, on the whole felt all a bit “Yeah, Yeah”. All the questions were [...]
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Yahoo! to go fully carbon neutral by end of 2007
Not the first but still a pretty major commitment by Yahoo!.
Slightly better news than being sued or announcing bad results.
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The future according to Intel
Some bits of this look very familiar. Worth a watch. All nice and slick.
Via M&SInnovationBlog
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TV on the Wii
Been enjoying the sun this weekend? I have. And also the latest personal technology breakthrough – TV on the Wii. Been checking out TV Links recently and on Friday I discovered the amazing combination of TV Links + Wii.
Having updated the Intenet Channel, I pointed my Wii browser towards TV Links and hey presto, [...]
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Back again
So, I’ve been away and pretty much offline for the past week and a bit. And it feels good. Had some time to see my family and generally catch up with a lot of stuff, which is nice. To kick things off, here’s a boat company using YouTube to host video demonstrations – something I [...]
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I’m on holiday
until April 10th . . . which may or may not mean that there are no posts until then. My gut feeling is that I’ll post more because I’ll have more time to catch up on everything geeky. But I just wanted to let you know in case I decide that now is a good [...]
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Big Yellow Storage/Crashing Waves ad