Several of us are involved in charities / community projects of one kind or another. I’m a member of Camel Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). CSA is about building a mutual relationship between food growers and food consumers so that the risks and responsibilities of food production are shared. There’s loads more info on this on [...]
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Sour Australian grapes
April 23, 2009 – 10:23 am
London advertising agencies have been made the butt of the joke in a new viral created by an Australian digital marketing strategist. The Melbourne-based strategist, known on YouTube as “Simontsmall” posted the clip in reaction to losing the account for the New Zealand vodka brand 42Below, to an unspecified London agency. With all the gloom [...]
Get down on it…
March 6, 2009 – 4:28 pm
If only their customer service was as good as their adverts. t-mobile advert
Befriend a Geek tops 300,000 views
December 28, 2008 – 4:06 pm
Our ironic Christmas video, “Befriend a Geek” that parodied a charity ad campaign appealing to people around the World to “make a friend this Christmas” was featured on the Worldwide home page of YouTube on Christmas Eve. At that point we had already clocked up over 20,000 views of the video and were incredibly pleased [...]
How not to win friends and influence people.
September 25, 2008 – 3:54 pm
On our home page you’ll see that ‘We are hiring’ and that ‘we are looking for a Development Team Leader… ‘ the operative word in both these sentences is ‘we’, as in, ‘not recruitment agencies, consultancies and whatever other guise these unscrupulous money blagging phone pests go by. It’s plausible this statement doesn’t apply to [...]
I want Sandy…
July 10, 2008 – 2:27 pm
Sandwiched between my ever increasing list of bookmarks you’ll find a link to my new secretary, her name is Sandy. When I first heard about her, I wanted her, which makes the URL iwantsandy.com quite appropriate Basically once you’ve registered for free, you can email Sandy with a message along the lines of ‘remind me [...]
One hand giveth: the other taketh away
June 25, 2008 – 4:46 pm
I was thinking about getting a couple of last minute tickets to Glastonbury this weekend. See tickets are selling them (this link will probably die soon, I guess). They’re not cheap. There’s a booking fee and a transaction fee. What’s this though: Brilliant! Only one transaction fee for the two tickets. So generous. But hang [...]
Idea showers
June 17, 2008 – 8:24 am
Thankfully Dave doesn’t use any of the office-speak phrases on this list compiled by the BBC. My personal favorite being: 2. “My employers (top half of FTSE 100) recently informed staff that we are no longer allowed to use the phrase brain storm because it might have negative connotations associated with fits. We must now [...]