Exciting news from the world of street art, apparently social media has consumed our lives and makes us feel inadequate. At least, that’s what street artist Above spent five days telling us, when he created a timelapse video of… Continue Reading
Author Archives: lydia
It’s time to start thinking *inside* the box
So, about 6 weeks ago I had a bit of a moment. You know the sort of thing, when you stop what you’re doing for long enough to actually look around. And you realise that, essentially, you’re an… Continue Reading
Just too old for Levi’s?
So, Levi’s have a new ad out, and Kidsleepy from Adland doesn’t think much of it – but maybe that’s just an age thing? Here’s the advert And here’s a snippet of the response. There is no royalty to your… Continue Reading
Things to do at WordCamp when you don’t do code – a #wcuk report (of sorts)
I was up in Edinburgh this weekend, at WordCamp – the annual UK conference for “bloggers, designers, developers, code gurus, social media fans, startups, corporates, communications professionals or marketeers” who use WordPress. Well, actually, it was mostly developers and code gurus,… Continue Reading
New words, favourite words and first words
I was reminded today about Bertrand Russell’s list of twenty favourite words, here they are for you to enjoy: wind heath golden begrime pilgrim apocalyptic ineluctable terraqueous inspissated incarnadine quagmire diapason alabaster fulminate astrolabe chorasmean subluminary alembic chrysoprase ecstasy… Continue Reading
AwayFind – newsletter marketing done well.
In many ways, I may be the worst person to have on your mailing list. I’m picky, and pedantic. And I’m always looking for something that can be improved, or used as a ‘what not to do’ case study.… Continue Reading
horrible sentence of the day
“In the event of learning content containing erroneous information, you are able to communicate this accordingly, by means of the commentary function, directly within the learning content.” Wow – that’s a really horrible sentence. It’s 27 words long, which is… Continue Reading
Why I’m Getting “Passive Aggressive”
Summary: People use the passive voice for many reasons, including fear, ignorance, and intentional obfuscation. Most of the time the active voice is clearer, easier to understand, and more appropriate. Identifying the ‘actor’ and ‘patient’ in the sentence makes it… Continue Reading
Apprentice series 8 episode 2 – “There’s no point doing Market research if we’re just going to ignore it.”
Week 2 in The Apprentice house and it’s the product design task. This is one of the toughest tasks in the whole process. People train for years to get to grips with the principles of product design. Individual products… Continue Reading
Mad Men Season 5 Episode 1 – Marry in haste repent at leisure
This is part of a series of posts on Mad Men and what we can learn from it – it is not a comprehensive re-cap of each episode. To find out why I’m doing this, have a read of It’s a… Continue Reading