Month: October 2007

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    New Wave, Bossa Nova, David Hepworth and Frank Sinatra

    Typical. No posts about music and then 3 come along at once. As well as the NME’s contribution to comms thinking below, here are another couple of music related nuggets combined in one edible portion. First up: Mix classic British post-punk new […]

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    Comms, Radiohead And The NME

    I did a talk with a big creative agency yesterday. I took Conor McNicholas, the editor of the NME, in with me to talk about the ever-changing music industry. The parallels with the comms industry are considerable and relatable. Both are witnessing […]

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    Sustainable Fashion

    Rebecca Earley is no ordinary fashion designer. As the Associate Director of the Textile Futures Research Group at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, her focus is on the reuse and recycling of fabrics and the reduction of "the vast amounts […]

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    Shop Local

    New from Friends of the Earth. This is certainly an issue round our way as I suspect it is in most neighbourhoods. Includes the cheeky use of a certain strapline at the end…

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    Blog Action Day

    When I signed up to Blog Action Day sometime ago 3,500 blogs were a part of the initiative generating a claimed reach of over 3 million people. The concept behind it was gloriously simple – as many blogs posting on one issue […]

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    Daisy Bennett And The Unpublished Manuscript

    Some of the models being adopted right now in book publishing are really interesting. HarperCollins have just announced that they are setting up an online community for aspiring authors (and avid readers) to create a profile and upload their unpublished manuscripts for […]

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    Chuck Close

    Heard an interview last night on Radio 4's Front Row with Chuck Close, American painter and photographer (self-portrait right). His story, and his work, are just amazing. He initally became known as a photorealist, painting works with such inconceivable attention to detail […]

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    How To Advertise To Men

    An oldie but goodie.

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    Blogging Government

    I was pleasantly surprised to find out that David Miliband (our youthful-looking Foreign Minister) has started his own blog. Not only that, it’s part of a wider initiative by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office which incorporates no less than 6 new blogs […]

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    With Age Comes Wisdom

    I saw a presentation recently from Bill Tancer, who runs global research at Hitwise. Bill (who was very  engaging) touched on something which I thought was fascinating (and to be honest, quite unexpected) when talking about Wikipedia. It seems that there is […]

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