September 2011
19 posts
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HAUTE POP: How I use Facebook →
hautepop:
In a separate browser to my main internet use
With cookies set to delete when I close the browser
All Platform functionality turned off, likewise saying NO to using my details in ads, allowing friends to tag me in stuff, lalala
Not Liking any brand pages
Never clicking “Like” on content while…
Checking security settings weekly, because it changes layouts, options and...
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Scraping P4K for new reviews, and making them into...
One of the questions i’m often asked is Hugh,
Your Campaign Seems To Have the Momentum of a Runaway Freight Train. Why Are You So Popular?
Another question i’m never asked is wouldn’t i t be useful to scrape the Pitchfork site, for all new releases, then create a Spotify playlist of the albums that are on Spotify, so we could all listen along. And do this on a near-week by week...
CoolBrands lols →
Stephen Cheliotis, chairman of the CoolBrands expert council, says: “Cool is clearly not here today, gone tomorrow, as some might assume, but about lasting the distance and maintaining one’s edge over rivals.”
The expertcouncil is in the chamber above the executivecouncil. Unlike the executivecouncil, the expertcouncil has 12 members, 5 of them permanent.
With Associates Updating Website
A company called With Associates, that my good friend Lawrence works at, do a thing where one of their designers designs the website every month. The designs are awesome. It is an excellent showcase of the team’s talents. I love this idea so much. I would very much like the next person who updates it, to make it a mobile-first website. Look at any graphs of mobile use and you see where...
A Handy Guide to Making lovely Punch, to the tune...
I wanna live with a cinnamon stick I could be happy the rest of my life With a CINAMMON STICK. I’m dicing large apples Half a dozen will do. One pint of cider, One pint of water And 3 CINAMMON STICKS. 3 Star Anises’s, You’ll need them as well, I’m adding some sugar: hundr’d grams of sugar AND 3 CINAMMON STICKS I’ve mixed them together; I’ll mix them...
Adam Pawson's Blog: Top 5 albums of all time →
adampawson:
This week I shall be attempting to name my all time top 5 albums, and why I chose them. Whilst this might seem like a very straight forward task initially, it by no means isn’t. I have listened to many albums throughout my 27 years on this planet and will be trawling back through the years to find…
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The current problem with online segmentation →
“IPC Media’s men’s magazine Nuts is the most popular website in the men’s lifestyle sector in the latest round of Experian Hitwise UK Online Performance Awards, covering the first six months of 2011.”
I think this shows up the Performance Awards. I would suggest that men get a lot of their lifestyle not from the websites of the magazines in this sector.
If you...
"In 1998 advertising expenditure for Internet... →
An article from 1998 called
An Introduction to Internet marketing
Searching for 'cellphone' 2005-2011
Hacking: Met uses Official Secrets Act to force... →
open-mouthed incredulity. What the FUCK are the Met playing at? Who is advising them? Is this the new Chief Inspector helping to cut crime, and making the streets safer? WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU FREAKS.
NB. There is no chance that this will get through the courts. So much precedent against it. The Met surely must know this, their advisors and lawyers must know this. Sounds like a huge failure of...
Three Stages of Display Consumers
Here is a simplified way of looking at everyone’s favourite topic: display ad consumers.
Back in the 1960s, there were three stages of ad consumer: in transit (past a billboard, behind a bus, walking to the shops), sitting “hands-down” (watching the tv), and sitting “hands-up” (reading the paper/magazines/carpet sample-books). Now, in the 21st and a half century,...
Choose Your Own Safe Word, Like George Osborne
The news that George Osborne’s safe word is “Louise” has surprised few.
But how did he such an UPSTANDING MEMBER of the parvenu come upon this word?
The reason is actually not that sordid. Do you remember the school break-time game of working out your pr0n name? Take your first pet’s name, and your mother’s maiden name et voila! You have a dirty name.
My friend Matt...
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Benedict Evans: "If we give it away, how can we... →
bgeblog:
A great find from FOSS. Android is open, right kids?
This sort of thing is damaging to Google not so much because of the sentiments expressed, but because they’re so much at odds with the public rhetoric. Google has an unfortunate habit of claiming to be more ideologically correct than…
It's a blogpost about QR Codes FOR A CHANGE
I’ve been thinking (ooh careful! I HATE THAT JOKE SO MUCH) about QR Codes: the most unelegant thing since Die Another Day.
Walking past a new restaurant this morning, with a new menu on the window. wouldn’t it be good to see that menu on my phone? Ooh IMPULSIVE CONSUMER. The menu didn’t have the QR code, but EVEN if they did i would’ve had to extract phone from pocket, find...
Extraordinary Rendition
One of the strangest interviews on Today this morning. Kim Howells, former Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee, said that he would be ‘absolutely astonished’ if it turned out that the UK was involved in extraordinary rendition. “When we looked very, very hard at these allegations of rendition we did not find that the intelligence services were guilty,. We were...
