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- Beyond parody
Confirmation today that a “green” marketing strategy can be applied to anything. Honda Racing - the Formula 1 bit of the car company - has stripped its cars of (banned) tobacco ads… and replaced the old logo-littered livery with a map of the earth.
Via a new website, launching tomorrow, we’ll be able to buy single [...]
- BMW ad
Don’t much like BMWs or, too often, their drivers, but their new ad has jolly good music that may already be familiar…
- Supply and demands
The global logistics business is truly a wonder of our age, the engine room of our industrialised, globalised, flat world. In the US alone, the logistics business employs 22m people and carts more than $2000 billion of goods in any one year. Dancing in a tightly coordinated waltz are distant factories, giant container ships, jet [...]
- Citizen journalism isn’t a panacea
For a business so young, digital journalism sure has some hoary old shibboleths. Yesterday I had a go at traditional notions of blogging holding back new forms of engagement; today it’s a return to another concept that sends me barking… citizen journalism. My regular reader will recall some wonky academic analysis set me off around [...]
- Telegraph gets touchy about Comment is free
The Daily Telegraph’s Shane Richmond is unhappy that the Guardian calls Comment is free (Cif) a blog. It’s not, he says, calling for a debate about what exactly a blog is, and adding it’s unfair to compare the Telegraph’s blogs with CiF.
Maybe he’s right. And, personally, I’m delighted he’s talking about CiF on telegraph.co.uk - [...]
- Keeping good company
This week’s Press Gazette runs a feature on “the leading voices in journo-blogging” and mysteriously finds space for Completetosh*. It’s an honour - indeed, a bewildering surprise - to find this humble parish included alongside an impressive list of folk I enjoy reading myself.
Others include m’collegues Roy Greenslade and Kevin Anderson (with fiance Suw [...]
- Bird flu exclusive on a Thursday, from a Sunday
Slightly inside baseball, this, but an interesting moment tonight for the hardcore media watchers out there: the Observer, the Sunday sister title of the Guardian, breaks a story on the web about bird flu tonight. Turns out:
“A consignment of dead turkeys from the Bernard Matthews’ plant in Hungary, where there have been recent outbreaks of [...]
- Grand alliance?
G2 ran a fascinating set of pieces today on the state of the union between Scotland and England. May 1 this year will mark the 300th anniversary of the act of union. Yet, notes Ian Black (another Scot who moved south) there will be no celebration on either side of the border - despite this [...]
- Commute envy
Sigh. Here’s my commute, written up in today’s “I’m a commuter, get me out of here!” feature in G2…
“Passengers often can’t get on trains northbound from south London in the mornings or southbound from Blackfriars station in the evening. They thump on the windows and yell at squashed up people inside to squash up more. [...]
- Ramsay and the tyranny of the critic
A highlight of a recent trip to New York was eating at Gordon Ramsay’s new place at The London hotel. We ate there on New Year’s Eve - an astonishing nine-course tour de force, during which the couple at the next table got engaged, and after which we got a little tour round the immense [...]
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