Year: 2008
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Kryptonite Exists
Image courtesy Jon has been manfully posting his series of ’10 things we didn’t know last week’ for the past year. In tribute to such a heroic effort, I thought I might pick out my favourite five quirky facts from this enormous list of quirkology: Antony and Cleopatra were ugly. More than half (52%) of…
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On Being More Than a One Trick Pony
Image courtesy One of the debates going on in the blogosphere late last year was around the question of whether there was enough advertising to support all the start-ups and launches currently basing their business models on this revenue stream. This followed comments by Maurice Levy, that "there is not enough money for everyone". The…
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Keeping It Peel
I’ve just finished reading the autobiography/biography of John Peel (the reason it is both is because, sadly, John died half way through writing it so it was finished by his wife Sheila, aka The Pig). John had long been one of my heroes. I remember listening to his show on many late nights with friends…