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May31
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I've arrived in England and I'm writing this sat in my hotel room in London. I'm here for the PSFK Conference tomorrow. There's still time to get to it if you are interested and happen to be reading this in the UK. Should be a good event, lots of bright people there like Johnnie Vulkan, Russell Davies, and a ton of others I can't remember, but you can get the details at the PSFK site. Tonight is all about "Getting to know" my fellow bloggers at a secret boozer in SoHo. As I've been up for about thirty six hours, I should be in great shape. Still, I'm looking forward to it. Nothing that a few pints and a a pile of fish and chips can't cure. I'll post some more tomorrow when I've recovered a bit. 
. If that doesn't cure jetlag, nothing will!
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May30
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If you don't hear from me for a day or two, that's because I’m on my way to London to speak at the PSFK Conference on June 1st, then spend the rest of my time there getting arseholed as we say...
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May29
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Ron Paul is an interesting candidate for the Republican nomination. Unfortunately, he doesn't stand a chance for three reasons. First: He's honest and tells the truth, in politics that will get you nowhere, in American politics it can even get...
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As F. Scott Fitzgerald once said... "The rich are different from you and I." Today's news that Sergey Brin, Co-Founder of Google has invested $4 million of Google's loot in his new wife's start-up, "23andMe" a biotech company she recently...
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May28
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Although I've lived over here, off and on, for more years than most of my readers have been on the planet, I was amused to read this week that not all the crazy people are working in advertising here in...
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May26
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Every time I look at the car biz in the States I have to wonder if they really have a clue. Right now everyone in America is freaking out that gas is pushing $3.50 a gallon. I almost feel sorry for the...
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May25
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The barrage of pharmaceutical advertising here in the States continues to grow. Last year drug companies spent $4.2 billion on direct-to-consumer advertising (which they are desperately trying to introduce into the UK) featuring ads aimed at healthy, upper income, middle...
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May24
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As I worked on the Dell Computer account for a good few years at Chiat, San Francisco, (You can see some of the ads on my web site) I was always an admirer of the "Direct Sales Only" policy. Instead...
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May23
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OK gang… So it’s nearly iPhone time! That means every Apple Freak out there is going to want to be the first on their block to flash their reeeely cooool new iPhone when they drive their Hummer round the block...
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May22
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Living here in the States, I am used to the non-stop bombardment of inane pharmaceutical advertising, particularly on TV, aimed at convincing people to buy drugs they don't need for ailments they don't have. Europe is about to suffer the...
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Who says you can’t make money blogging… Actually most people… I’m living proof. But there's always hope, and today’s new-media success story makes you think… Well, you never know. Last year, Howard Lindzon came up with an idea for a...
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May21
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You may remember my post of a couple of days ago about how “The Donald” was watching as his so-called “Lifestyle” magazine Trump was going down the tubes… Well, it seems like the bad news keeps on coming. Apparently, his...
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May19
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Everyone knows that in this day and age you have to have a killer web site to promote yourself/company/product/whatever. The trouble is that most web sites are not only expected, they are downright bad. You know what I mean, designed...
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May18
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When it comes to promotional ideas that have great customer appeal, I have to think about the current news regarding a nude car wash, by the name of Bubbles'n'Babes, with X-rated shows and topless girls, which has been given the...
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May17
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In case you missed it, the big “news” is that Paris Hilton won't appeal the 45-day jail term she was sentenced to earlier this month for violating probation, according to court documents filed Thursday. A lawyer for the “Highly Talented”...
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May16
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I've often wondered how Donald Trump gets away with the crap that he does... And I'm not just talking about his hair or his abominable taste in interior and exterior design. No, I'm talking about his so called reputation as...
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May15
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I sometimes have to wonder at how much crap this government and its associated military brass thinks America’s citizens will put up with. The news that the DOD is now blocking access to MySpace and YouTube for service people stationed...
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May14
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There's been a lot of discussion recently about the merits of Presidential "Wannabe's" having their own blogs and MySpace pages. I particulary liked this comment from a reader of InfoWorld... I don't know about MySpace, but it would be nice...
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May12
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Further proof this week of how most people in politics are clueless when it comes to PR and communications. I was wondering what had happened to Karen Hughes, Bush's Director of Public Diplomacy and Communications, since she went to Saudi Arabia...
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May11
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Having lived in the US for a great many years, I have got used to the numerous "special days" celebrated here. From Halloween to St Patrick's day, people love to dress up and pretend they're something they're not. Unfortunately, few...
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Sometimes I wonder about so called "Institutes of Higher Education." That's why I'm mystified with the brouhaha about Stacy Snyder being refused her teachers degree 'cos she posted a picture of herself on MySpace drinking. Sounds shocking, right? Until you...
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May10
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Internet television start-up Joost has a lot going for it as it approaches launch -- The reputations of co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, who’ve previously pissed off the music industry with Kazaa, and the telecom industry with Skype; a...
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May 9
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If, like me, you’ve wondered why there is such an obsession with celebrity in this country, to the point were massive amounts of media coverage is lavished on people of miniscule, if any, talent… Today’s news that Paris Hilton is...
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May 8
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I have to love the way the US press made a big brouhaha about the fact that Helen Mirren, who played the Queen in the movie “The Queen,” was supposed to have snubbed Her Royal Highness by refusing a dinner...
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May 7
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Paris Hilton is so pampered she doesn't read her mail. I have people who do that for me," she told a judge. Legal documents and traffic citations elude her. "I just sign what people tell me to sign," she testified....
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I have to admit that I have a hard time understanding most American sports. As far as I know, none of them will tolerate a tied game, there has to be a winner and a loser. To this end, the...
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May 6
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Many see the proposed takeover of Yahoo by Microsoft as a reaction to the ever-increasing concerns about keeping up with the Google Monster, particularly after losing a recent bidding battle for online advertising specialist DoubleClick. With Google developing easily downloadable...
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I wonder if anyone has thought about the financial consequences to the media of Actor/Senator/Actor Fred Thompson actually throwing his hat into the Presidential race? What I’m getting at here is how this could really screw up the broadcasting of any...
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May 5
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One of the things in my last post about the media’s infatuation with Paris Hilton that seems to have grabbed many readers attention is the mention she made of not reading most of the things she’s given to sign. To...
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May 4
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When it comes to celebrities the media loves to swoon over, you have consider the mileage they will make out of today’s news that heiress Paris Hilton has been jailed for 45 days for violating her probation over a drink-driving...
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This is a very funny piece of film produced in Norway that really sums up everything you have ever experienced when faced with new technology. This should be required viewing for everyone who creates technology advertising. It would make a...
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May 3
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So, I just watched the US Republican presidential contenders’ debate on MSNBC, while sitting in my hotel room in San Francisco, before spending tomorrow with Goodby, Silverstein & Partners to impart my priceless wisdom on their employees. While watching it...
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May 2
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Many politicians wear those tiny flag pins in their lapels as some kind of signal about how patriotic they are. Apart from the fact that the vast majority of them are made in China, it does about as much good...
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I watched the preview for Spider Man III and I must say it looks rather dramatic. Plus, after the success of the last Batman and Bond iterations, they are now bringing a “Dark Element” to it. But what really intrigues...
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May 1
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So Spider Man III launches on May 4th in the US. From what I’ve read, it’s just more of the same… Peter Parker (not George) fights new villains, temptations, and his own “self-doubts,” whatever they are. Hopefully, this is the...
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News today that “The Poisoned Dwarf” (Rupert Murdoch) wants to buy Dow Jones & Co. for $5 billion, which would add The Wall Street Journal to Murdoch's global media empire, makes me wonder what the future of that long established...
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