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Last Week In Digital Advertising #10

January 24, 2011

Is that something we should be considering for the future? Will the idea of advertising campaigns disappear? Perhaps our vision of the right message to the right person at the right time means that brands need to be constantly in-market. How else can the be assured of being at the right time?

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Elsewhere: An Insiders View Of Government

January 4, 2011

The diary format is easy to dip in to – and that had been my intention – but I found I was hooked and could spend many hours reading; it’s not a slimline book!

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Last Week In Digital Advertising #6

September 27, 2010

It’s not surprising to have heard a number of suppliers at last week’s ad:tech conference bemoan the technical confusion arising from our industry: which technologies should be adopted and what can they do for their businesses? At least one mainstream publisher suggested there were simply too many technologies around and there wasn’t enough time to evaluate them all.

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Last Week In Digital Advertising #2

August 16, 2010

So, where did we leave off? Well, it really does seem like a the conversation was broken mid-stream as we find ourselves more-or-less at the same point we finished on. There remains considerable discussion around the Wall Street Journal’s ‘investigations’ into advertising tracking. ClickZ asked, perhaps a little hysterically, if this was the end of behavioural targeting and challenged everybody – including consumers – to be aware and modify behaviours where necessary. Sage advice.

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Last Week In Digital Advertising

August 9, 2010

The Wall Street Journal’s piece entitled “The Web’s New Gold Mine: Your Secrets” influenced much comment around the web throughout the week. There’s a great deal of validity to the piece but, as with many articles about digital privacy, I think, by grouping many of the different tracking stories together without the space for full explanation simply serves to scare more than inform.

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More Producing

November 10, 2004

I suspect I may be a lone voice in expressing a little (and just a little) disappointment.

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The Whispering Years

November 1, 2004

It’s not dull or bland in anyway but, perhaps because there’s a little of the 60s hippy left in Bob Harris, you feel the measured approach is entirely appropriate.

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The Producers

October 30, 2004

The fact that it is one of the better shows on the West End right now possibly says more about the other shows.

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A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To The Forum

October 29, 2004

You feel yourself pulled along by the way the cast at The National seem to be enjoying themselves.

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Lucky Man: A Memoir

October 23, 2004

An absorbing and very well-written book that proves that people in the public eye and just like the rest of us.

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Elsewhere: Blitzed! The Autobiography of Steve Strange

April 5, 2003

In some respects it’s a fascinating tale of fame and hedonism. If, however, you’ve read biographies of other Eighties pop stars then you’ve heard a lot of it before. The story seems to have been repeated: humble beginnings drive creativity which lead to fame and then there is a some-kind of fa

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Elsewhere: The Kenneth Williams Diaries

February 20, 2003

The diaries are very well written and DaviesÂ’ editing not intrusive. Williams certainly didnÂ’t appear to edit himself and the result is a frank and articulate book.

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Film: Daredevil

February 16, 2003

I really can’Â’t be sure what made this film fail for me. Maybe it was too dark for a super-hero flick or maybe that the story was not compelling. Maybe it was the fact that at least one villain survived for a sequel in a far too obvious fashion.

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Pop

January 28, 2003

I am currently listening to pop. This is a difficult thing to write. Pop is not considered to be a credible music genre by people who listen to lots of music. Pop is considered the home of the boy band. Pop is the cheap and nasty side of music.

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Film: 8 Mile

January 19, 2003

I have no idea if this in any way reflects real life in downtown Detroit. I have no clue if rap culture is, in any way, well served by his film but it is a great movie which I thoroughly recommend.

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