Winning Writing
Posted: Mon 21 June, 2010 Filed under: Advertising, News, Writing Leave a comment »I’m a bit late to the game on this one, but I love it anyway.
Who wouldn’t want to read more after reading this opening paragraph?
Just awesome.
Football
Posted: Mon 7 June, 2010 Filed under: Advertising, Travel, Weirdness 1 Comment »Every so often while driving I hear a promotion on Radio One for the football coverage on Radio Five Live.
It’s of no interest to me whatsoever, but always grabs my attention because of the first line of the promotion. It actually says “Football on Five Live”, but I keep on hearing it as “Fook All on Five Live”.
Daft Sods
Posted: Fri 4 June, 2010 Filed under: 1BEM, Advertising, Work-related Leave a comment »The directors of the company I’m working for are, it has to be said, daft buggers on occasion. In a couple of weekends time they’re going to Le Mans, which is apparently a bit of a yearly tradition. Part of this tradition is also decorating their cars with stick-on decals and the like.
This year, this is what one of them has done to his Bentley for the weekend in question…
Car decals for Le Mans 2010 trip
From the front it’s even more done up…
More car decals for Le Mans 2010 trip
Utterly utterly daft – but bloody good fun, too.
I’m just a posh boy
Posted: Thu 22 April, 2010 Filed under: Advertising, Creativity, Cynicism, Politics Leave a comment »Saw this today and loved it. Now if only we could get the Conservatives to use it…
The kind of thing Photoshop was meant to be used for (Click to embiggenify)
eTyres
Posted: Tue 20 April, 2010 Filed under: 1BEM, Advertising, Business, Customer Services, Domestic, Driving, Reviews(ish) 1 Comment »So following on from yesterday’s discovery of a flat tyre, I booked in (and paid in advance) through eTyres.co.uk to get it fixed at home. eTyres offer their service at home, which is ideal when you’ve got a flat.
However, the motto of this entire story is that if you’re going to have a puncture and use eTyres, don’t do it on a weekend. Despite being able to book and order online, for some fuckforsaken reason they can’t organise things ’til the Monday morning. And at that point they’ve also got to deal with all the people who’ve booked on the Saturday.
I did try to change the tyre myself so I could get down to the local tyre place, but the wheelnuts were on so tight I couldn’t even move the sodding things. Insurance-wise I was going to be lowest of the low priority calls, and they couldn’t even give me a time expectation. So all told that left me pretty much at the mercy of eTyres.
Having made the booking online yesterday evening, they finally arrived at 5.30. Yep, a whole day. So much for the speed of booking via the internet etc. etc.
In the end they’ve done a decent job, and for a fairly decent price. Not as great as they make out in their marketing, but not bad.
But if you need a swift service that’ll actually get the job done, I wouldn’t necessarily recommend eTyres to anyone.
Political Contacts
Posted: Sun 11 April, 2010 Filed under: 1BEM, Advertising, Cynicism, Politics, Work-related | Tags: #debill, east falkirk, election, Labour, linlithgow, morons, Politics 3 Comments »via Twitter/TwitPic, another fine example of why politicians should never ever be allowed to control the internet, or access to it…
How not to do it.
So a few pointers…
- You really expect your voters to type in www.linlithgowandeastfalkirklabour.org.uk ? Get real.
- And separate sites for each constituency? Really? I guess joined-up communications and corporate message just kind of got by-passed.
- A hotmail email account? For politicians? You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. (Mind you, the actual site doesn’t even appear to list proper email addresses, and just uses a contact form)
- It really helps to have the proper names in your Twitter and Facebook contact details. Not “site.com/yourname”. FFS.
And these clueless fuckers are indicative of the type of politicians who brought in the Digital Economy bill? Jesus H. Christ on a shiny metal bicycle.
Unbelievable 2
Posted: Fri 19 March, 2010 Filed under: 1BEM, Advertising, Business, News Leave a comment »Just a short filler, this – but YouTube’s chief counsel has written a post about YouTube’s current battle with Viacom about hosting ‘illegal’ videos.
The best bit is this :
For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately “roughed up” the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko’s to upload clips from computers that couldn’t be traced to Viacom. And in an effort to promote its own shows, as a matter of company policy Viacom routinely left up clips from shows that had been uploaded to YouTube by ordinary users. Executives as high up as the president of Comedy Central and the head of MTV Networks felt “very strongly” that clips from shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report should remain on YouTube.
That’s pretty stunning, however you look at it.