Saw this in the office.

In Pr Week this week, there’s an article on how the PR sector is losing out on word of mouth marketing, just like it failed to "seize ownership" of the internet as a comms tool. Now I’m not being funny, but isn’t PR supposed to be ABOUT word of mouth? Maybe trying to "seize ownership"…

Someone at work read this blog for the first time this week, she got interested (easilly pleased) and read the whole thing, starting with the latest post and finishing with the first. The feedback was interesting and largely okay. Apparently it’s a lot different from the beginning in April. At first it was a bit…

Even worse than my sad breathing Darth Vader thing from Empire, Helen has exposed my obsession with science. Not content,  I’m going to make it worse by admitting I love working on apparently dull products or services. Anyone can sell trainers, but when you have to make boring stuff interesting, it’s a real challenge. My…

I think that ads and design can be a useful singpost for what’s happening in our culture, sometimes they can influence them of course. Some people I know actually use ad breaks to get a flavour for what’s going on. I know a lot of architects that think like this too. Of course they’re building…

This taxi driver was marginally funny the other week. He got very, very lost, and he had an asphyxiating cocktail of air fresheners. As soon as I Stu giggling to himself, I couldn’t help joining in . The harder I tried to stop, the worse it got, especially when Kirsten joined in. How come something…

Maybe it’s a confidence thing, but I get nervous when there’s no one around to bounce things off. As a one man department it can get very lonely, but there is the freedom to make your own decisions. It’s liberating, but I’m the kind of person that needs other points of view. I’d written a…

There’s been a fair bit of chat around recently on celebrities promoting good causes, the Red thing and famous people telling us how to live in general. My initial reaction is to tell celebs to get lost and keep their opinions to themselves. BUT… The sad truth is that we live in world where celebrities…

While we’re on the subject of music and radio, this commercial for Radio 2 is breathtaking. It’s also at least as good as the Perfect Day ad for the  1997. Proper pieces of entertaining film you want to watch again and again. Got me thinking what my supergroup would be, hard to choose, although it…

During the last couple of weeks I’ve been driving a car with a tapedeck instead of a CD player. At first this was a pain, then it got quite good. Firstly because I’m listening to the radio more, not only more Radio 4 but the odd foray into Radio 2. One surprise was Chris Evans,…