This week's NESTA sponsored Reboot Britain conference brought together a mix of government, business, banks, technology, media people from the UK, and visitors from the USA that saw left leaning Labour/Liberal Democrat political views engage and collaborate with conservative Tory representatives...
Not sure many of us that attended the International Advertising Festival in Cannes last week will be able to look at a glass of rose for a while. Although numbers were down this year, it was deemed a huge success, especially for digital advertising. My highlights were the interview with Biz Stone and...
Boring old telly has been getting a lot more fun lately, if you are using Twitter . The micro-blogging service is increasingly becoming the back channel of broadcast, where people turn to exclaim delight or disgust about what they are watching. Tuned into Channel 4's My Monkey Baby , and wondering...
With the release of the government's Digital Britain report this week, it comes at a timely juncture in the industry of public relations, where new technology tools are increasingly being used for communications campaigns, far more than in past years. While the main highlights of the report address...
This week the mobile browser Skyfire released it's long awaited 1.0 version, for use with smartphones, taking the company out of a hugely successful beta period that has seen 1 million people downoad the free service. Skyfire is free to download at: www.get.skyfire.com The service is currently available...
Twitter has the badge of distinction of the first mass protest from members at a change it has implemented - thousands of people objecting to a change it has made in replies. At the same time it has been subjected to an amusingly wrathful blog post from rapper Kanye West, who is incensed that the service...
Garry and Robert met in 1992 on an IPA Stage 2 training course. Garry was a delegate. Robert was a judge. We've always had an intention to work together. It's just taken a while. Here's a little of the work we've been involved in along the way. This Ian Dury ad for the Sunday Times is...
You know, starting an agency is pretty exciting. There's tons and tons of stuff to think about. But when you strip it right down there's only three things to think about. 1. Getting talented,courageous, forward thinking people to come and work at the agency. 2. Getting talented, courageous, forward...
By lunch time I'm knackered. Too much talking. What with new agency gossip and a conference call to my friends at Peace One Day. Garry's on his way up to Norfolk for the long week end. Driving one armed with a phone Sellotaped to his ear. We giggle about the proposed Campbell Lace Beta logo....
Twitter has been quietly promoting a new service for the business class , known as ExecTweets, a sort of Twitter/LinkedIn mash-up created by conversational ad agency Federated Media, with a healthy dose of sponsorship from Microsoft. ExecTweets itself doesn't seem to be anything worth Tweeting-home...
