Readers of my US blog, AdScam , where informed yesterday that I have given up on Twitter. Why? Because in the last few days, I have had dozens of emails from very pissed off people asking why I am bombarding them with shitty emails flogging everything from insurance to condoms. Obviously someone has...
Everyone over here is shocked that the International Olympic Committee had the unmitigated cheek to award the 2016 Olympics to Rio, rather than Chicago. Rubbing salt in the wound by eliminating Chicago in the very first round of voting. Wankers! But, I’ll make you a bet right now that most Chicagoans...
Did you happen to read the amazing interview in Monday’s Wall Street Journal with Jeff Horing, co-founder of Insight Venture Partners, a New York private-equity firm that was the lead investor in Twitter’s third and latest fund-raising round? These are the geezers who just pumped in $100 million in funding...
I know the job scene in the ad biz is pretty bad over there, over here it’s desperate. And with the news out of the holding companies of their continuing drastic losses of income and declining profits, you know it’s only going to get worse. Particularly when the magic answer to all their problems is...
In case you hadn’t realized it, I am a multi-tasking, uber-achieving prince of the blogosphere… Meaning that apart from writing this occasional blog for BrandRepublic, I also write a US blog, and manage to bore the *** out of people with various articles and books. The rest of the time I drink, smoke...
Readers of both my blogs will know that I am far from being a fan of Twitter, and I’m not even on Facebook any more because I’ve been hacked twice and had to put up with a lot of very pissed off people who think I’ve been bombarding them with spam. I never was on MySpace, because that seems to be inhabited...
Anyone familiar with this brief? "We've been working on this for nearly a year, but we're not sure we've got anything good. You need to come up with a plan by next week that will save the world." Alright, it's not quite like that, but I was struck by the similarities between...
The rumors about Apple possibly buying Twitter, are flying thick and fast here in the States.. Apple is known for keeping a huge pile of cash in it’s numbered Swiss bank account (Well, GodJobs does). But right now it's particularly flush, with almost thirty billion dollars in cash. An amount that...
As readers of this blog, and perhaps my US one, AdScam , may have noticed, I am not a fan of Twitter, and increasingly, I am becoming less and less enamored of FaceBook. Not because they blithely assume they can take my quirks, foibles, preferences and general information, then sell all that valuable...
Fresh from the G20, so might be a bit of overclaim. Yet the ‘dodge-it-all’ bandwagon carries on apace, with #digitalbritain trending top on Twitter on Friday. Gordon gets digital, it says on the live feed twitter fail, lampooned so cruelly in the Telegraph . But the politicians aren’t saying very much...
