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Hello! Welcome to my blog. Home of incisive, erudite, probing treatises on the good, the bad and the ugly of the marketing and technology world.
Just had a call from my girlfriend. Nothing unusual in that, we speak most days.
The unusual part was that she called the landline, when normally she’d call my mobile. She’d left her mobile at home, so had to go hunting for my work number to give me a call.
Of all the people in the world, my girlfriend is the person I speak to most on the phone – and yet she doesn’t know my mobile number off the top of her head. Which is fair enough, as I don’t know hers either. Continue reading...
It’s the Internet generation folks, where 1,000,001 talented people are making music (and a few quid) without the need for major labels. One such person is Chance, a top fella from the States who I’ve been fortunate enough to listen to – and exchange emails with – for a four or five years.
After a year off, he’s back with a great new song and a fantastic new video.
Speaking at a the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, California, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the assembled audience that “we” (the human race) create as much information in two days now as we did from the dawn of man through 2003.
Devised by Brazilian advertising agency Moma Propaganda for a campaign dubbed “Everything ages fast” for client Maximidia Seminars, these posters depict retro adverts for your favourite “digital properties” – Faceboook, Skype, Twitter and YouTube. Continue reading...
How many ways can you contact a single individual? Off the top of my head, I can contact most of my friends via their… home phone, office phone, mobile phone, Skype phone (and chat), text, MSN/AIM etc, Facebook chat, Facebook email, ‘normal’ email, LinkedIn email and, of course, by knocking on their door.
So is it any wonder that, in this day and age we almost demand immediate response to our questions and queries? Continue reading...
“My name is David James, I’m calling because we’ve received a number of error reports from the computer in your house – and I want to help you to fix them.” Continue reading...
Morning all… it’s been a busy few weeks, with some exciting projects either finalised or proposed. Hope to have *very* exciting news in a week or so.
In the meantime, I thought I’d share three of the sites that take up space in my RSS reader. Please note, all of these at times can be rude, crude, unsuitable for kids and not always safe for work either. You have been warned! Continue reading...