Archive for September, 2011
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
hello norma jean
‘Forever Marilyn’ is a striking 26-foot statue of Marilyn Monroe by artist Seward Johnson. Marilyn is holding her skirts down on windy Michigan Avenue just a block from our office in downtown Chicago. The statue is proving to be controversial. It is a little creepy and a little cool and Marilyn still pulls a crowd. [...]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
in bruges
‘In Bruges’ is a great little movie starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes. It is the story of two hit men hiding out in Belgium after a challenging hit-man job. The movie is quite quirky. It slowly reveals how the two men experience local customs in the very charming medieval canal town of [...]
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Monday, September 26th, 2011
16:04 eurostar – london st pancras to brussels midi
A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to catch the Eurostar train from London’s gleaming new St Pancras station via the Eurotunnel under the English Channel to Brussels. The train trip was less than 1 hour 50 minutes at speeds up to 300 kilometres per hour. What a way to travel and you don’t [...]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Is the iPad for wankers?
There are quite a bit of negative views on the iPad and in particular the people that use them. Word on the street is they are wankers. Non-iPadder’s get annoyed by people sitting in cafe’s, or at bus stops, or heaven forbid in a library, using there index finger’s to swoosh through endless pages of [...]
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
That’s a Fugazi
Tatts asked me to write a retrospective review on the gangster film “Once Upon a Time in America”, he often does that before committing a couple of hours of his life to a movie, knowing that I am a movie buff and have probably seen most of the films he is thinking of watching. And [...]
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Sunday, September 18th, 2011
a useless mobile
Following up from my post on all the amazing things that our mobile devices do for us these days, here is a mobile that does, pretty much,… nothing. It’s called the Æ+Y. You can’t download apps. You can’t surf the web or check emails – I’m assuming you can still make calls and send SMS, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in New Zealand by timezoneone
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
mobile devices
It’s no secret that people are becoming more and more reliant on their mobile devices. Our mobiles have almost become extensions of our brains. They pretty much do everything that we used to use the left side of our brains for – remember phone numbers, birthdays, appointments, shopping lists, solve basic maths equations etc. And [...]
No Comments » - Posted in digital,mobile,New Zealand,web by timezoneone
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Billy Ellis and his golden cup
In 1824, in a town called Rugby, somewhere in England, a young man cheated at soccer and today he has a trophy named after him. That trophy is the main topic of conversation here in New Zealand right now, as the world’s best rugby teams are all here to compete for it. The Rugby World [...]
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Saturday, September 10th, 2011
Digital Marketing 103 | Keyword Optimization
Keyword Optimization is the key to Search Engine Marketing. It is crucial that a business develops a search engine marketing strategy that includes web friendly copy, keywords, keyword phrases, title tags, meta description tags, headings and keyword density. Here are some suggested questions to ask yourself if you want to win with online search. WHEN [...]
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Friday, September 9th, 2011
Digital Marketing 102 | Zero Moments of Truth
Google recently released a thought provoking white paper on the future of digital marketing…The Zero Moment of Truth. A busy mom in a minivan, looking up decongestants on her mobile phone as she waits to pick up her son at school. An office manager at her desk, comparing laser printer prices and ink cartridge costs [...]
