Just Another Social Profile Really

It’s almost impossible to imagine how the ongoing stories, about the thousands of little ways that MPs were trying to slip as many pennies out of the system as they possibly could, can possibly get any worse. And yet, every day, in every way, they do. With all this news of petty corruption, coupled with [...]

This makes me fucking sick. I can’t say I felt particularly strongly about the demonstrations either way, and always felt that the oficers in the De Menezes case were in an impossible position, but the pure unnecessary nature of this police brutality, and the horrific impact it will have had on Ian Tomlinson’s friends & [...]

So, apparently Daniel Hannan, the Tory MEP for South East England (and therefore one of my representatives), told the PM what’s what in a display that has people from New York to Norwich proclaiming how amazing he is (I’m not going to do him the favour of putting the video on this site).
Well, perhaps unsurpisingly [...]

Yesterday, as I’m sure I don’t need to point out, saw the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States. We had an event on here at work where we invited clients to watch it, served food & drinks (with an American theme) and gave a couple of presentations on lessons for marketers [...]

Along with minced pies, repeats, The Queen’s Speech and a vague sense of unease the morning after the office party (what I refer to as THE FEAR), Google’s annual Zeitgeist list is fast becoming a Christmas tradition. It’s a list of the phrases that have been searched for the most over the preceding 12 months [...]

I’m sure that all of you will by now be aware of the terrible events unfolding in Mumbai (Bombay as was). I’m not even going to attempt to go into the reasons/repercussions/consequences of the attacks, but thought that instead I’d highlight how the web is having an effect on the ability of governments to carry [...]

Apparently there was a word cloud going round last week showing a word cloud of the Obama site created by Wordle which I’ve written about before - thescrapbook has one which you can see here. As I noticed that 10 Downing Street recently relaunched their site I though I’d see what Wordle had to say [...]

Paxman – Do you believe in political parties in Britain
Rascal – Yeah, they exist, I believe in them. I don’t know if I care
Paxman - Well why don’t you run for office?
Rascal - See, that’s a very good idea, I might have to do that one day still. Dizzee Rascal for Prime Minister!
I [...]

Thank fu*k for that!

I guess it’s a combination of watching too much West Wing and hoping that we don’t wake up on Wednesday with another old white guy in the White House. Whatever, this always sounds pretty good: St Germain’s Easy To Remember - basically the amazing eulogy delivered at Malcolm X’s funeral set to a beautiful bit [...]