Monthly archive December, 2009

New Years Resolutions for 2010

Well, New Year’s finally here, and with but a few hours left of this decade, I’d like to take this opportunity to announce my New Year’s Resolutions. Please feel free to disregard them, as they’ll inevitably be abandoned by the time my hangover clears some time next year.

Happy Christmas

I didn’t want to do a cheesy Christmas piece (although I had to provide one here), so I’ll just leave you all with this picture of two kittens watching the snow falling. Happy Christmas, and thanks for reading. I promise I’ll have at least one entry worth reading up before the end of the year!...

The Best Paragraph You’ll Read This Year

I know I’ve taken time here to mock people like PETA, the Daily Mail and really bad PR companies, but their crimes against marketing and writing pale in comparison to something I saw this morning. A piece of copy so confusing, so overwrought and so terrible, that professionals don’t even know what it means. Ladies...

Five Wildly Inaccurate Social Media Predictions for 2010

Lock your doors and windows before Google's Thought Police arrest your children. Be quiet though - don't forget to mute the notification sounds on your Twitter App.

The Best (and Worst) Marketing Ploys of the Noughties

The most tragic thing about the Sea Kittens campaign is that Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall showed campaigners how to make people think about where their food comes from with his anti-battery chicken crusade. Wouldn't farmed salmon swimming in their own shit have made a more effective image than this?