Just Another Social Profile Really

At the end of last week Sir Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the world wide web, finally got with the cool kids (well, the vaguely hip middle class intelligentsia) and joined Twitter. And since then I’ve seen two things that would make him proud that he did (invent the web that is, obviously he shouldn’t [...]

Well, what a week that was. Trafigura, Jan Moir and Ian & TFL: three separate incidents, all unrelated other than the fact that, to greater or lesser degrees, mobiles & Twitter played a large part in their being resolved/gaining mainstream coverage. In the case of Trafigura, Carter-Ruck almost certainly caved more quickly than they would [...]

It tastes great within the borders of that country but absolute shite if you take it anywhere else.” Having met him at Stream 09 I already knew that Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilivy Group, was very entertaining company. I’d also realised that he was a scarily intelligent man with an amazing way with words. [...]

Anyone reading this probably knows that the web is a pretty big deal: Facebook’s the 4th biggest ‘country’ in the world, 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, yada, yada, yada. But just to ram the point home, here’s a rather neat little widget (view the original one here) which tracks the [...]

Back in the early 90s I remember writing a letter to NME (or it may have been Melody Maker, I can’t quite remember). I was annoyed at the amount of hype they were giving to a couple of new bands, undeservedly I felt. The bands in question were Suede & The Verve (or Verve as [...]

One of the best things I saw at Stream 09 was a video by Yossi Vardi, the Israeli tech-legend who co-hosts the event with WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell. It’s a spoof of the excellent Kobe Bryant Nike viral and got a big laugh when he showed it on the last night. The Kobe video [...]

I’ve just got back from 3 days at an event called Stream 09. It was organised by WPP, Mindshare’s parent company and was, quite simply, brilliant. Billed as an unconference it’s essentially a group of about 200 people who are invited to spend a few days discussing interesting things at a venue on the coast [...]