Archives for August 2007
Links for 2007-08-31 (August 31, 2007) Via Dan Hill, I come across Jossip's list of the amount of advertising in magazines. Only 13% of Vogue's last issue was editorial. I post this mainly to suggest that for the moment at least there's a fair amount...
Links for 2007-08-30 (August 30, 2007) Merlin Mann is in a similar state with regards to PR people... Lovely graphic he's posting. That other people are feeling the same way maybe indicates that the PR people are upscaling their assault on webloggia?...
On being 'challenging' to PR people... (August 29, 2007) Some people have been having trouble working out why I've got so worked-up about this whole public relations thing. Perhaps this quote from a Flickr user called keeneypr on the thread about PR posted overnight will help explain to you...
Links for 2007-08-29 (August 29, 2007) Do you have more than $700,000 lying around that you would rather spend on a semi-squatted domain? That's what Flickr.com is currently going for. Ridiculous. Aggravating. Spot the Open Rights Group poster in new episodes of the I.T. Crowd!...
This is not a brothel... (August 28, 2007) As has probably become clear recently, I'm currently not particularly well-inclined towards people who work in public relations - particularly the particularly unscrupulous ones that spam me with press releases and work ardently to try and persuade me to talk...
Links for 2007-08-28 (August 28, 2007) Lovely "Dance Dance" David Heinemeier Hansson (Revolution) post about the rhetoric that people use about 'the real world' "The Real World must be a truly depressing place to live. It's apparently a realm where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and...
Links for 2007-08-27 (August 27, 2007) Stephen at PRBlogger has put up a big post warning PR people not to spam bloggers... I have to be honest, Stephen has done his utmost to make this (limited) situation right and I can't thank him enough. If...
Links for 2007-08-26 (August 26, 2007) How to do water droplets in Photoshop in five minutes I mean it's fascinating and everything but having watched it all the way through twice I still actually have no idea how they did it or what each of...
Yahoo! Messenger vs. Safari 3.0 Beta (August 25, 2007) I use Yahoo! Messenger for the Mac a lot at work and I have to say that there's really very little wrong with it at all. I don't like using Adium or those combined clients. They seem clumsy and tacky....
The Vatican and the ethics of advertising... (August 25, 2007) I've discovered that in one territory at least I'm in perfect tune with The Vatican, or at least with the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. I confess, this was entirely unexpected. From their perspective perhaps it would reassure them that...
Links for 2007-08-25 (August 25, 2007) Drew B writes on 'How not to court a Blogger' citing my recent explosion on Flickr And I quote: "And maybe bloggers need to realise that if they publish and they have an audience, they are vehicles conveying messages,...
Why you now need to login to post comments... (August 25, 2007) When I started this particular site in 1999 it was one of only a few hundred active personal weblogs in the world. Every time a new interesting site was discovered, everyone in the community linked to them. I met a...
Links for 2007-08-24 (August 24, 2007) Ged Carroll writes a rather over-flattering post about something I said on Flickr I'm going to write up my thoughts on the whole PR / blog thing as soon as I get a moment. Maybe later today if I've...
Links for 2007-08-23 (August 23, 2007) The Last.fm Normaliser tells you which bands and albums you've listened to for longest (based on the average song length) If you like your Orbital, as I do, then suddenly the fact that their tunes are four times as...
On Monocle, Nat Torkington & Place branding... (August 22, 2007) While reading the new issue of incomprehensibly fascinating magazine Monocle--which has a parallel web presence orchestrated by ex-boss Dan Hill that stubbornly (and equally incomprehensibly from my perspective) refuses to include any content whatsoever from the magazine--I stumble upon...
Links for 2007-08-19 (August 19, 2007) I just got friended by Björk on Twitter. Bit weird. Advertising? Sponsorship? Official? Unofficial? Not sure what I think about this. Very weird thing to happen....
Links for 2007-08-16 (August 16, 2007) Possibly my favourite headline of recent times: Chernobyl 'not a wildlife haven' Pretty fascinating little article though. Superficially, the surrounding area seems to be doing okay because humanity's absence compensates a bit for the, you know, nuclear stuff. But...
Links for 2007-08-15 (August 15, 2007) There's a rumour going around that TV and Films will finally start being available on iTunes in the UK in the next few weeks... A lot depends on what series are for sale. Very different contractual relationships in the...
Links for 2007-08-14 (August 14, 2007) The Google Health Advertising Blog asks people in the health industry, "Does negative press make you Sicko?" This has been around for a while, but still it's weird and creepy. Uncomfortable with debate and criticism? Advertise your way out...
Comments are working again... (August 11, 2007) A few of you contacted me via Twitter, work e-mail, personal e-mail, instant messanging (Yahoo and AOL), SMS, phone call and in person to remind me that my comments weren't working on plasticbag.org. Thank you all very very much for...
On buying a new camera... (August 9, 2007) While I'm on the subject of pretty things for a moment--and again in lieu of actual content and opinion--one of the main ways in which I've been distracting myself from work recently has been photography. A few months ago I...
Unkle vs. Beethoven for BMW... (August 9, 2007) I'm posting advertising, I know, but given that I'm unlikely to be buying a BMW (and most of you people are equally unlikely) perhaps it's okay. Who knows. I'm still absolutely run off my feet right now--which is why everything's...
Links for 2007-08-01 (August 1, 2007) Wikipedia on Bokeh - the creation of purposeful and pleasant out of focus areas in photos using wide aperture lenses with shallow depth of fields... Got a new camera and am now reading up desperately on all kinds of...
