List/Grid Tag Archives: Rant
Facebook is not a PR Godsend
I’ll begin this article by casting my mind back to early 2010. As part of a second year University assignment (overseen by the observant Richard Bailey) we had to deliver…
Social Media: Digital ADHD?
Each year we ritually ponder upon our own frailties and answer with a New Year’s Resolution. In 2012 I am going to slow down. To slow down brings connotations of…
Apple ignore onslaught of angry iPhone 4S Owners over “invalid sim” error
Thousands of iPhone 4S owners are experiencing “invalid sim” errors. Users report that after a few hours of their devices being switched on an error message appears showing “invalid sim”…
What Online Adverts can Learn from History
Yes, I do online advertising for Microsoft but everything written here are my own views. Blah, blah, blah. When one speaks of online advertising it is common to get lost…
99.5% of Social Media Experts are not qualified to do their role: A call for accreditation
Gary Vaynerchuk in an interview with TechCrunchTV announced that ‘99.5% of Social Media Experts are clowns’. A bold sentiment (albeit opinion) which I have decided to publically agree with. Social…
Lazy Journalism: I was targeted
The biggest challenge for the modern day Journalist is the speed to deliver. Investigative Journalism for the most part has taken a backseat as many who have the opportunity to…
Exploitation Marketing: The Companies “helping” Japan
Mixing Marketing and Charity is always a difficult tightrope to walk. There is a fine line between assisting a cause and using a difficult/disastrous situation for marketing purposes. Over the…
Why I Quit Facebook (and you should too)
At 8:25am this morning I deleted my Facebook account. In this article I have detailed the reasons and perhaps why you should do the same. Before sitting down to write…
I got a Penalty Fare
That’s right. I got a penalty fare. I pay over £130 a month (that is over £1,500 a year) for Transport for London (TFL) to provide me a service which…
Commuting Comrades: Why Commuting is Tedious
If I had to pick out one aspect of working in London which causes shivers to roll down my spine then it would be commuting. What is even worse is…
Why I can’t stand F.M.L
I’m not usually one to complain about the various ways people use language. When venturing into the realm of linguistics I am wholly relativist. I fully understand that language is…
Politics: Fix the Broken, Break the Fix… give me a break from the fix
For the last few months my mind has been eagerly hammering away trying to work out why people have lost their faith in politics. Could it have been the huge…
