Friday, March 31, 2006
Monday, March 27, 2006
Viram
Just got back from this event. Andy C still just destroys everone else.
Am now sitting in our living room looking at the view over our balcony watching the sunrise while supping champagne. Best holiday ever!
Am now sitting in our living room looking at the view over our balcony watching the sunrise while supping champagne. Best holiday ever!
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Mansion club in Miami
Went to some fancy club in South Beach, and not for a dnb event.There was a rumour that this club was owned and run by p diddy. Although we were later told that this wasn't true, it sounded good.
It was full of beautiful people and absolutely heaving.
The theme of the place was very much in keeping with the name, there were suits of armour, chandeliers and loads of other fancy pants little touches. Very very classy venue.
Friday, March 24, 2006
Funny Little Story
Hello from Miami.
Having an awesome time out here at hte moment, running around and having fun. Looking at all the beautiful people and generally enjoying myself.
Met up with John B today, a very well known dnb and electro artist, which was quite fun. I'm not just name-dropping though. Amusingly, this guy (the sign says "I've been stalking John B on Myspace") randomly turned up.
He's been posting pictures of his haircut on dogsonacid.com recently, and also posted pictures of his bedroom where he's put up a huge sign saying "I LOVE JOHN B." Anyway, very funny conversation ensued.
To John B's credit, he was very polite and pleasant to his stalker, I think I would have run away immediately... He did manage to not give the man his mobile number though!
Thursday, March 23, 2006
VIew from our Apartment
This is the view from our balcony on our apartment.SOOO much better than a hotel - we've got a little kitchen, separate bedrooms, two widescreen tvs, one of those fridges which make ice for you...
All coupled with a forty second walk to the beach!!
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Things Falling from the Sky
This isn't a doctored photo in any way. There's a strange house near Oxford with a Shark sticking out the top of it.Even more weirdly, the top hasn't been sealed properly, so there's a hole in the roof. THe shark itself is going into a very derelict house...
Strange idea for a decoration.
Revolution Awards
Went to the Revolution awards as a guest of Yahoo. Really fun evening. It was good to get to know some people at other agencies on the table, together with running into nearly all the people within the industry around the bar after the food.
The host was Al Murray, who did a surprisingly good job. If I was the paying for the tables at the front though, he was quite harsh towards the guests at that end.
Managed to stick around till about four or five in the morning, which is always the sign of a good party. When I first started going to these, I got too drunk and had to go home early before embarassing myself. Maybe I am starting to learn how to pace myself!
Didn't win any awards and didn't notice my agency win any significant awards, but I might have missed some. It began difficult to pay attention after a couple of minutes into the proper bit of the award ceremony. I wonder if guests at the oscars particularly pay attention after the first couple of awards.
The host was Al Murray, who did a surprisingly good job. If I was the paying for the tables at the front though, he was quite harsh towards the guests at that end.
Managed to stick around till about four or five in the morning, which is always the sign of a good party. When I first started going to these, I got too drunk and had to go home early before embarassing myself. Maybe I am starting to learn how to pace myself!
Didn't win any awards and didn't notice my agency win any significant awards, but I might have missed some. It began difficult to pay attention after a couple of minutes into the proper bit of the award ceremony. I wonder if guests at the oscars particularly pay attention after the first couple of awards.
Friday, March 17, 2006
Metro Fest
Sometimes I need reminding why I do my job. The pay isn't that great, and there are long hours. However, every now and then I get to go to a GREAT party.
Last night I got to go to the 'Metro Fest' which was an annual party thrown by the newspaper, for their clients.
I was very impressed - they'd decked out SEOne in the style of a festival, with little tents to go inside and sit in together with food halls which were serving festival style food. This included some of the best sausage and mash I've tried for ages. They had Pete Tong and the Cuban brothers playing, and everything was awesome!!
Free drink and free food always helps to make a party great!
Did notice, however, that they invited very few new media people. I think there were only three from my company - literally everyone else was from the offline industry. No representation from the online departments of any of the full service agencies. Pretty narrow minded view, especially since they've only just launched a proper website, more than five years after launching the paper.
Can't teach a dog new tricks.
Last night I got to go to the 'Metro Fest' which was an annual party thrown by the newspaper, for their clients.
I was very impressed - they'd decked out SEOne in the style of a festival, with little tents to go inside and sit in together with food halls which were serving festival style food. This included some of the best sausage and mash I've tried for ages. They had Pete Tong and the Cuban brothers playing, and everything was awesome!!
Free drink and free food always helps to make a party great!
Did notice, however, that they invited very few new media people. I think there were only three from my company - literally everyone else was from the offline industry. No representation from the online departments of any of the full service agencies. Pretty narrow minded view, especially since they've only just launched a proper website, more than five years after launching the paper.
Can't teach a dog new tricks.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Nokia ad in Riga
Cunning idea for an advert: Make the product really big and put it in the middle of the street...
Really works quite well and it had little lights inside so it lit up during the night. Would be difficult to make lots of these.
Really works quite well and it had little lights inside so it lit up during the night. Would be difficult to make lots of these.
Spot Runner
Spot Runner - Welcome to Spot Runner
Awesome idea - bringing Easyjet's business model to TV buying. These guys will probably make lots of money.
Should be good to open up TV ads to smaller businesses, however it will probably mean that there will be huge numbers of really bad adverts.
We already see too many direct response adverts (e.g. for insurance or loans) on television. Intrusive advertising needs to be engaging in order to make sure people continue to accept the idea of watching ads in exchange for free television.
This development will keep the tv ad market alive, but will ultimately hasten the demise of television's current business model. It'll be bad for the advertising industry as a whole - as the cost of a television spot declines, the amount invested in the creative product will also decline.
Awesome idea - bringing Easyjet's business model to TV buying. These guys will probably make lots of money.
Should be good to open up TV ads to smaller businesses, however it will probably mean that there will be huge numbers of really bad adverts.
We already see too many direct response adverts (e.g. for insurance or loans) on television. Intrusive advertising needs to be engaging in order to make sure people continue to accept the idea of watching ads in exchange for free television.
This development will keep the tv ad market alive, but will ultimately hasten the demise of television's current business model. It'll be bad for the advertising industry as a whole - as the cost of a television spot declines, the amount invested in the creative product will also decline.
Riga Trip
Went to Riga for the first time. Really nice city - cheap beer and very friendly. Didn't see too much culture cause I stayed in bars the whole time. That made it more fun to be honest.
Still a quite immature tourist industry means there are many people trying to extort cash rather than taking a more long term approach to the visitors.
Still a quite immature tourist industry means there are many people trying to extort cash rather than taking a more long term approach to the visitors.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Give us back our crown jewels
Guardian Unlimited Technology Technology Give us back our crown jewels
Many good points - I was having this discussion with someone the other day, why aren't OS maps free?
Though doubt there's many good political points to be scored by allowing this. Probably end up with the Lib dems moaning about it and nothing happening
Many good points - I was having this discussion with someone the other day, why aren't OS maps free?
Though doubt there's many good political points to be scored by allowing this. Probably end up with the Lib dems moaning about it and nothing happening
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Ronin
Saw Ronin tonight, a film with Robert Deniro. Usual crime caper - just felt like watching a good robbery film after all the news recently.
I don't think I've seen a film like Ronin before, in terms of innocent bystanders being killed. Most films have both good guys and bad guys studiously avoiding hitting bystanders.
This film had people continously being injured or killed, but without any kind of judgement - bodies just got hit and then fell out of view.
Had seen the film before, but just hadn't noticed. Maybe I'm getting more mature and starting to notice this kind of thing?
I don't think I've seen a film like Ronin before, in terms of innocent bystanders being killed. Most films have both good guys and bad guys studiously avoiding hitting bystanders.
This film had people continously being injured or killed, but without any kind of judgement - bodies just got hit and then fell out of view.
Had seen the film before, but just hadn't noticed. Maybe I'm getting more mature and starting to notice this kind of thing?
CBS News | Star Wars Mailbag: The Sequel | February 4, 2006 16:04:43
CBS News | Star Wars Mailbag: The Sequel | February 4, 2006 16:04:43
Good example of bloggers slagging off a company. Makes a convincing case, but I'm sure there's a Sony side to it
Good example of bloggers slagging off a company. Makes a convincing case, but I'm sure there's a Sony side to it
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
A Prize I'd like to win
Went to Google's officesin Victoria. They weren't as cool as I'd expected. They had a HUGE screen showing off Google Earth, which was cool. Also a big screen showoing everyone's searches. Kind of expected cooler stuff than that, but they've only just moved in and maybe they had more secret cool stuff they're not allowed to show me!I want one of these prizes - it's a prize from the Economist for the best technlogical innovation in 2000 or 1999. I bet they didn't even go to the awards ceremony.
The only Prize I've been up for I didn't win, it went to a campaign to keep pets away from fireworks. Still can't believe that!
Monday, February 20, 2006
Guardian Unlimited Business | | Brown boosted by budget surplus
Guardian Unlimited Business Brown boosted by budget surplus
Wonder who's doing Brown's PR - this should be headline news. He should be on the Today programme gloating from the rooftops!?
Wonder who's doing Brown's PR - this should be headline news. He should be on the Today programme gloating from the rooftops!?
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Natural History museum
Can't believe the number of people we had to fight through to visit the Natural History Museum. There were too many people to be able to see the dinosaurs :-(
Sunday, February 12, 2006
The Observer | Business | Sorrell at war on two fronts as writs fly
The Observer | Business | Sorrell at war on two fronts as writs fly
The Italian case sounds worrying, but more so is the commitment Sorrell tried to make to get the OK! business.
I know some agencies enter into agreements with media owners around guaranteed levels of spend in order to secure discounts, but this agreement seems to be going a little far. It should be fine to use the size of a company to buy stuff on the cheap.
It shouldn't be fine to recommend media properties solely on the basis of potential new business for an agency. Dodgy!
The Italian case sounds worrying, but more so is the commitment Sorrell tried to make to get the OK! business.
I know some agencies enter into agreements with media owners around guaranteed levels of spend in order to secure discounts, but this agreement seems to be going a little far. It should be fine to use the size of a company to buy stuff on the cheap.
It shouldn't be fine to recommend media properties solely on the basis of potential new business for an agency. Dodgy!
Blogging and Blogs
Comment and opinion from the Times and The Sunday Times - Times Online
Relatively interesting seeing articles about how blogs are going to take over the world on the Times.
Seems to be seome good points on the limitations of blogs. However it doesn't mention the difficulty of finding a good blog. How many people read more than one different blog?
Blogs only really add value for extreme viewpoints or specialist pursuits. You won't find good coverage of UK sumo wrestling in the newspapers, but I'm sure you'd be able to find a blog about it.
But which ones are good? Maybe there's a niche in the market for a good 'blog review site' - I'm on del.ico.us but it doesn't give me the ability to rate sites. Might be possible to rate sites in more sophisticated ways?
I'll have to check out the other versions. We'll see if Google can think of better ways to rank sites.
Relatively interesting seeing articles about how blogs are going to take over the world on the Times.
Seems to be seome good points on the limitations of blogs. However it doesn't mention the difficulty of finding a good blog. How many people read more than one different blog?
Blogs only really add value for extreme viewpoints or specialist pursuits. You won't find good coverage of UK sumo wrestling in the newspapers, but I'm sure you'd be able to find a blog about it.
But which ones are good? Maybe there's a niche in the market for a good 'blog review site' - I'm on del.ico.us but it doesn't give me the ability to rate sites. Might be possible to rate sites in more sophisticated ways?
I'll have to check out the other versions. We'll see if Google can think of better ways to rank sites.
Friday, February 10, 2006
Wikipedia
Guardian Unlimited Technology Technology Doctoring the past - Wiki style
The article claims that '3 percent of all webpage visited are Wikipedia pages.' I don't believe that.
Did just check ComScore though - which provides industry figures on internet usage. 3.2 million British people looked at the Wikipedia last month, representing 10% of the online population.
Their monthly visitors have tripled in the last year though they seem to have peaked in November. Maybe the school \ university holidays were a factor?
The article claims that '3 percent of all webpage visited are Wikipedia pages.' I don't believe that.
Did just check ComScore though - which provides industry figures on internet usage. 3.2 million British people looked at the Wikipedia last month, representing 10% of the online population.
Their monthly visitors have tripled in the last year though they seem to have peaked in November. Maybe the school \ university holidays were a factor?
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Our schools are complicit in this university segregation
Guardian Unlimited Guardian daily comment Our schools are complicit in this university segregation
Patronising bloody chip on shoulder private schooled kid.
The scholarship schemes run by the private schools seem to be a cunning plot. The children who come out of these schools are brainwashed into believing that they were saved by the private school. Without private school they would have been swallowed by the hordes of savages that prey on vulnerable 'nice kids' in comprehensive schools.
They seem to have an impression of state school teachers as incompetents who are unable to help any of the children as they try to look after too many idiots.
I think they should change the rules so that anyone who goes through private school should have to meet the full cost of a university education.
Patronising bloody chip on shoulder private schooled kid.
The scholarship schemes run by the private schools seem to be a cunning plot. The children who come out of these schools are brainwashed into believing that they were saved by the private school. Without private school they would have been swallowed by the hordes of savages that prey on vulnerable 'nice kids' in comprehensive schools.
They seem to have an impression of state school teachers as incompetents who are unable to help any of the children as they try to look after too many idiots.
I think they should change the rules so that anyone who goes through private school should have to meet the full cost of a university education.
Friday, January 06, 2006
MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | Mark Lawson on Celebrity Big Brother 4
MediaGuardian.co.uk Media Mark Lawson on Celebrity Big Brother 4
Barrymore is a strange choice!
Hopefully not going to do anything funny with the swimming pool in there.
Probably not going to watch it, but Endemol really know how to target the lowest common denominator!
Barrymore is a strange choice!
Hopefully not going to do anything funny with the swimming pool in there.
Probably not going to watch it, but Endemol really know how to target the lowest common denominator!
Monday, January 02, 2006
Grafitti
Good graffiti over by Seven Sisters road (just north of my house). Obviously someone's not feeling the new year spirit!
It says: "To all the people that have verbally intimidated me - 'Go Looney, Go P*kz(??), Go Nigger etc.' Have a crap new year for making me mentally ill."
Maybe a new Banksy in the making
It says: "To all the people that have verbally intimidated me - 'Go Looney, Go P*kz(??), Go Nigger etc.' Have a crap new year for making me mentally ill."
Maybe a new Banksy in the making
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Wikipedia in the news
It's quite impressive that the Wikipedia, an online organisation that only employs a single full time employee, can make it onto the front page of the financial times.Is this some kind of conspiracy by offline print moguls trying to defend themselves against the new form of publishing that the Wikipedia embodies?
There was not as much prominence given to this article: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5997332.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn
Ah well. Hope the Wikipedia keeps on going, and that it sorts itself out and gets some advertising on there!
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Monday, November 28, 2005
Friday, November 25, 2005
Murder Mystery Evening
Awesome night - doing a bit of acting and roleplay, pretending to be a judge. Didn't manage to guess the killer correctly, though it was a bit of a cheat, the killers name was Scarlet Kipper. I assumed that as she was called Scarlet Kipper, that she was a red herring...Unfortunately, she wasn't!!
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Strange Dream
Very very unusual for me to remember a dream, but this one was so much fun I did for once...
Dreamt that I was very late for work \ some kind of meeting. Decided to take a short cut by trying to run down a mountain to a little coast path that lead to where I was going (this made perfect sense at the time). The path got steeper and steeper until I was just sliding down. At one point I thought it might end in a sheer cliff, but I didn't mind too much.
Of course, it did end up at a sheer drop and I was left hanging on to a ledge (just like in films). Then, luckily, someone from my agency and Colm turned up to give me a hand up. Unfortunately the person from agency over-reached and fell off the cliff. I remember not caring that they fell to their death, but I honestly can't remember which person from my agency it was...
Then Dan appeared and together Colm and Dan helped me up and took me to a car where they drove me to my appointment, which was when I woke up.
Talk about a dream teaching morals - don't rely on the people from work, trust your friends instead?!
Dreamt that I was very late for work \ some kind of meeting. Decided to take a short cut by trying to run down a mountain to a little coast path that lead to where I was going (this made perfect sense at the time). The path got steeper and steeper until I was just sliding down. At one point I thought it might end in a sheer cliff, but I didn't mind too much.
Of course, it did end up at a sheer drop and I was left hanging on to a ledge (just like in films). Then, luckily, someone from my agency and Colm turned up to give me a hand up. Unfortunately the person from agency over-reached and fell off the cliff. I remember not caring that they fell to their death, but I honestly can't remember which person from my agency it was...
Then Dan appeared and together Colm and Dan helped me up and took me to a car where they drove me to my appointment, which was when I woke up.
Talk about a dream teaching morals - don't rely on the people from work, trust your friends instead?!
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Public Enemy
Saw Public Enemy last night.They weren't as good as I'd hoped they would be. It wasn't as Old Skool as I expected - there were people with guitars there and they had live drums rather than a good old drum machine. I admit that they were good at hyping up the crowd and managed to show their fans a good time.
You do have to think that there does come a point where it's time to stop! Twenty years in the business seems a little excessive - especially when you start to sound like the fun loving criminals...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Paranoia
I'm not usually in the habit of taking photos of people on buses, but this woman was different.
There's currently lots int he news about this avian flu business, however I still haven't seen proof that it has made the leap from infecting birds to infecting humans.
This person seems to think differently!
I wasn't living in London at the time of SARS, but that seemed to be another media fuelled scare story. By coincidence, I was reading an amusing story in the Guardian. It was making an extremely valid and relevant point about the BSE scares of the early and mid 1990s. There were predictions of seeing millions of people die from a disease that could cross the boundaries between Human physiology and Cow physiology.
So far, at least, this hasn't proven to be the case. When was the last time you heard of a new case of CJD being diagnosed?
I remember stories focusing on kids who used to eat beef every single day catching this horrific disease.
Mobile phones causing cancer is another of those scare stories, that is just beginning to fade. MMR vaccines is one of the few scare stories that actually got proven wrong during the 'scare cycle.'
The only real solution to this kind of nonsense is some kind of mandatory comparison of risks people have to take, some kind of benchmark risk. How about the likelihood of being run over for someone who lives in London and crosses the road twice each day.
It would be scary in itself to see the number of scare stories that don't succeed in being more deadly than that (I cross the road at least 10 times a day in my commute to work...)
There's currently lots int he news about this avian flu business, however I still haven't seen proof that it has made the leap from infecting birds to infecting humans.
This person seems to think differently!I wasn't living in London at the time of SARS, but that seemed to be another media fuelled scare story. By coincidence, I was reading an amusing story in the Guardian. It was making an extremely valid and relevant point about the BSE scares of the early and mid 1990s. There were predictions of seeing millions of people die from a disease that could cross the boundaries between Human physiology and Cow physiology.
So far, at least, this hasn't proven to be the case. When was the last time you heard of a new case of CJD being diagnosed?
I remember stories focusing on kids who used to eat beef every single day catching this horrific disease.
Mobile phones causing cancer is another of those scare stories, that is just beginning to fade. MMR vaccines is one of the few scare stories that actually got proven wrong during the 'scare cycle.'
The only real solution to this kind of nonsense is some kind of mandatory comparison of risks people have to take, some kind of benchmark risk. How about the likelihood of being run over for someone who lives in London and crosses the road twice each day.
It would be scary in itself to see the number of scare stories that don't succeed in being more deadly than that (I cross the road at least 10 times a day in my commute to work...)
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Pocket-lint.co.uk AOL to launch online TV service news story
Wasn't this the entire point of AOL mergin with Time Warner about five years ago?
All the papers are just reporting this as some kind of innovation for AOL. SUrely the quesiton should be what took them so long?
For the companies in question, it's the only way they're going to be able to make any significant money out of their old shows. THe fact that one of the 'channels' is going to be dedicated to shows that feature stars before they became famous is an indication of the quality of the programming.
At least it will be going ahead. I hope the BBC's service comes online soon and shows all these monkeys how it should be done!
All the papers are just reporting this as some kind of innovation for AOL. SUrely the quesiton should be what took them so long?
For the companies in question, it's the only way they're going to be able to make any significant money out of their old shows. THe fact that one of the 'channels' is going to be dedicated to shows that feature stars before they became famous is an indication of the quality of the programming.
At least it will be going ahead. I hope the BBC's service comes online soon and shows all these monkeys how it should be done!
Friday, November 11, 2005
Google Print and Copyright
Slightly crazy position for the authors to take - I don't fully understand the position they are taking.
From my experience, having seen one or two results popping up from Google Print, Google doesn't allow you to read the whole book. In fact, it doesn't allow you to read more than three or four pages.
What's the point of going off like this? I strongly suspect Google will \ already has put in links to Amazon or eBay so that you can buy a book immediately after reading the pages.
Once eBooks come of age (which is growing more and more likely with the rise of PSPs, better screens on mobiles and Video iPods) we would be able to buy the book immediately and receive it immediately.
If any author supports the idea of their work appearing in a public library I see no need to object to their work appearing in this. The fact that almost any book can be read for free merely by paying a visit to any of the 4,624 libraries in the UK yet book buying still remains popular is a strong indicator that demand for reading material is unlikely to be dampened by Google.
Go Google!
From my experience, having seen one or two results popping up from Google Print, Google doesn't allow you to read the whole book. In fact, it doesn't allow you to read more than three or four pages.
What's the point of going off like this? I strongly suspect Google will \ already has put in links to Amazon or eBay so that you can buy a book immediately after reading the pages.
Once eBooks come of age (which is growing more and more likely with the rise of PSPs, better screens on mobiles and Video iPods) we would be able to buy the book immediately and receive it immediately.
If any author supports the idea of their work appearing in a public library I see no need to object to their work appearing in this. The fact that almost any book can be read for free merely by paying a visit to any of the 4,624 libraries in the UK yet book buying still remains popular is a strong indicator that demand for reading material is unlikely to be dampened by Google.
Go Google!
Sunday, November 06, 2005
Fantastic Weekend!
After a particularly hectic week at work, I managed to get some good quality time off.Friday night I went to see Nick play at the End. None of the sets were amazingly outstanding, but it was a really good night. Nick played a brilliant set, he looks much more comfortable with having three hundred people looking on as he does his thing.
There were a good bunch of people there, I'm beginning to get used to this whole London scene. I spent last night with the London lot too. Went to see fireworks at Alexandra palace, which were pretty good though they were synced to music. More specifically to the beach boys and other gems selected by Capital FM. Ah well!
There was an extremely good turnout, though this disturbed Laura as she thought it wasn't managed very well - probably a fair point. I didn't manage to meet up with Colm et al until well after the fireworks had finished.
The rest of the night was spent drinking in the pub having fun. Today was spent not doing much, just watching TV, reading the papers and such like. It's always good to get a good bit of relaxation every now and then.
Monday, October 31, 2005
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Dinner at Lincoln's Inn
Jo kindly invited me to dinner at Lincoln's Inn.Lovely food and lovely wine, followed by Port is always appreciated.
I was a bit suprised to find that all the people I talked to seemed to have been in Cambridge at around the same time I had been there. One of the people I met there seemed to look very very familiar.
Ah well, it was good fun meeting them all and I look forward to having more political discussions with random barristers.
Slightly stressful getting there on time. Spent the majority of the afternoon frantically trying to get a campaign live. My AD took ages approving the insertion order - so lots of running round before I finally got things done.
Internal processes are good in some ways, but not when they get in the way of efficient working.
Trip up BT Tower!
Went for a seminar run by the IPA - something about 'advertising after the TV spot.' Reasonably interesting seeing someone talking about the new trends in technology. Particularly interesting was a talk from Helen something or other - head of Thomas Cook TV. I think they've done good work in promoting their brand.
More interesting, however, was the lunch at the top BT Tower. 34 floors up in the centre of London is always a good thing! Spent a little time mingling, but soon tired of networking. Maybe that's a skill I need to practice a bit more.
Annoyingly, I didn't get the chance to go to the Ad.com party - was hoping to be able to leave the office on time, but didn't.
However, I did manage to meet up with Alex Petrovic who was visiting from Geneva. It was good to hear he was doing well.
To make the day even better, I had my annual review and was given a pay rise (though not as much as I would have liked!)
More interesting, however, was the lunch at the top BT Tower. 34 floors up in the centre of London is always a good thing! Spent a little time mingling, but soon tired of networking. Maybe that's a skill I need to practice a bit more.
Annoyingly, I didn't get the chance to go to the Ad.com party - was hoping to be able to leave the office on time, but didn't.
However, I did manage to meet up with Alex Petrovic who was visiting from Geneva. It was good to hear he was doing well.
To make the day even better, I had my annual review and was given a pay rise (though not as much as I would have liked!)
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Fast Forward
Well - we didn't win. Annoyingly, Sting managed to win even though he didn't put that much time into his group's presentation.Taking Campaign down the heat magazine model didn't sound like a sensible idea to me, but it's not my decision.
We went drinking after finding out that we'd lost. This is Katherine, a girl in my team taking a draw from a Shisha pipe.
Good fun was had by all!
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Big Picture | Google invites 400 to 'off the record' event | CNET News.com
Big Picture | Google invites 400 to 'off the record' event | CNET News.com
Awesome - more of these!
I want to see one of these done on the Guardian. Or Google News
Awesome - more of these!
I want to see one of these done on the Guardian. Or Google News
Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Why calls for a boycott of Brazilian beef are misplaced
Good points!
hehe - Bustani
hehe - Bustani
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Blog: 17 March 04. Bill Hicks
This piece is a bit close to home.
Working in adland does change some of your perceptions. When I clicked on the button to post this to the blog, I noticed that urchin are tracking the activities on Blogger.
Strange thing to notice, but then they are one of the web trackers we use at work to monitor usage. Had a good argument \ debate with Colm the other day about it. There are many parts of my job that are dark \ evil but the fact that technology allows it just makes me think it is cool!
It's all about the triumph of technology. I can use a sophisticated tracking system at work to target people who have bought a car recently and then advertise car insurance at them. Does this mean it is something bad?
Ah well - Sunday evening thoughts indeed!
Working in adland does change some of your perceptions. When I clicked on the button to post this to the blog, I noticed that urchin are tracking the activities on Blogger.
Strange thing to notice, but then they are one of the web trackers we use at work to monitor usage. Had a good argument \ debate with Colm the other day about it. There are many parts of my job that are dark \ evil but the fact that technology allows it just makes me think it is cool!
It's all about the triumph of technology. I can use a sophisticated tracking system at work to target people who have bought a car recently and then advertise car insurance at them. Does this mean it is something bad?
Ah well - Sunday evening thoughts indeed!
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | George Monbiot: The price of cheap beef ...
Seems to have a strange definition of slavery - by this measure all workers during the industrial revolution would have been slaves?
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
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