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drdonzoFiled under: fashion
Further to our post yesterday about the Stylescout blog, we read in The Guardian that companies are employing fashion scouts to do exactly what that site is doing for free.
Filed under: sport
AFC Wimbledon, the football club formed by fans after Wimbledon FC moved to Milton Keynes, have won promotion to the Conference, England’s fifth tier of football. Even if it wasn’t my club, I would still report this as it demonstrates the power of fans that goes way beyond what anyone could have imagined, least of all the panel that concluded that a resurrected “Wimbledon Town” was “not in the wider interests of football“. The lesson: A football club does not have to be a business.
For the Independent’s coverage, including video of the fans, click here.
Filed under: environment
Britain’s struggling wind power industry is to receive a boost from climate change – Britain is becoming more windy, says the Guardian Daily podcast.
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Hosting this blog on WordPress is free and easy, but it just ain’t that cool. Alas, our designers have told us to go and build our own site (haven’t they heard of the recession?) and recommended that we use a company called Squarespace which takes care of hosting and the back end for just $8 a month. They are not the only ones. Watch this squarespace.
Filed under: business
It was with great sadness that I learned that former client Electricity4Business suddenly went under last year.
It was a company determined to stick it to the fat cat (the corrupt big six energy providers to be precise) and save the world.
Overpriced energy is here to stay, Britain.
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In case you don't get it, her bum does look big.
The Advertising Standards Authority banned the above ad – and boy did it generate column inches. And that’s exactly what it’s all about.
Good job.
Filed under: media
The death of the newspaper is something happening right now in the US – aren’t they always one step ahead? So “what will you miss when newspapers disappear?” asks marketing guru Seth Godin on his blog.
The key and only question is raised by this blog post on that blog post:
But Godin glosses over a crucial point: if newspapers disappear, will long-form, investigative journalism really be able to sustain itself on the public ‘paying for it one way or another’? Will the general public, or the government, be interested in financing tomorrow’s Woodwards and Bernsteins? Can we depend on ourselves to seek out and support quality over quantity and immediacy?
I think we can, and it’s already happening faster than the newspapers can keep up.
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After hearing about Johan Lehrer’s “How we decide” on the Guardian’s brilliantly dumbed down Science Weekly podcast, it seems I have been inundated with articles about neurology, i.e. how the brain works. Much of it written by Lehrer himself – like this article on how to “hack your brain” by inducing hallucinations.
Filed under: health
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Although doubtless very few people have bothered to actually look up swine ‘flu, the hysteria is spreading far and wide – and people are starting to map its progress using Google Maps. It’s been a while since we had a terrifying health scare, so put it into a bit of perspective by reading this excellent Huffington post piece.
Time to stock up, or just another storm in a teacup?
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One of the asides in Wired UK that caught my eye was the response to “The Big Question: How would you invest $100m dollars in media today?” proffered by Will Lewis, Editor in Chief of the Telegraph Group:
“I’d prepare for when the economy pics up again, whether in two years or so, more likely four years, and I’d invest it in a jobs site and a property site – because when it turns, it will turn quite quickly and be an online experience. It’s going to be absolutely huge.”
This is interesting because a) it has little to do with conventional media and b) because he sees the current crises in the labour and property markets today as reasons it will go online in the future.
In other words, he is implying that the current retooling of the world economy will precipitate a sudden switch to online marketplaces that would not have occurred otherwise.
