Digital Media Monkey

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Recently stumbled across Tumblr. It’s appealing, especially when I struggle to maintain this blog. It’s a happy medium between the succinctness and immediacy of Twitter, but the richness and flexibility of WordPress. And it has … Read More →
Social media: the new wall of shame

Once upon a time people used to write obscenities on walls. A marker pen in a toilet cubicle, a spray can of paint round the back of the bike sheds, a blunt knife and a … Read More →
The future is in us but may not be us

Mystic Meg tried to predict it. Arthur C. Clarke and HG Wells were intrgued by it. George Orwell nailed it more than he could imagine. The future. How do you pre-empt the next big thing? … Read More →
The price is right at Waitrose

If Pizza Express’ price strategy has left me a bit confused recently the new brand price match advertised by Waitrose has me positively discombobulated. Waitrose is a supermarket with such a good reputation that house … Read More →
This no ordinary PPC, this is M&S PPC

M&S seem to have given up on the string of relevance when it comes to paid search (PPC). Why bother directing people to the products they need when you can claim to sell something and … Read More →
Vote for policies

As the UK prepares for what could be one of its most interestingly general elections for some years, there’s been a lot of talk about tactical voting. The UK’s electoral constituencies and ‘first past the post‘ … Read More →

Tiger bread? You’re having a giraffe!

Written by monkey. Posted on January 26, 2012. Filed under Customer service, PR, Retail. Tagged sainsburys. No comments.

Lily's letter to Sainsburys re tiger bread

Chris King deserves a pay rise. And owes the Sainsbury’s PR department a big apology. This example of five star customer service speaks for itself (click images to enlarge!) And Lily Robinson aged 3½ is right. Why … Read More →

Darn those pesky sites that hide their content!

Written by monkey. Posted on January 24, 2012. Filed under Search engines. Tagged ads, display, friendly web, google, online advertising, SEO. No comments.

ads versus content, new google page layout change

You can’t hide forever. You song lyric sites that fund your free service with myriad ads for babes and buttock enhancers. You pesky download sites (freeware software only I assure you) who send me via … Read More →

Pinterest

Written by monkey. Posted on January 20, 2012. Filed under Apps, Online tools, Social Media. Tagged images, sharing. No comments.

pinterest pinning

Social media is responsible for all sorts of neologisms, portmanteaus and acronyms. Poking, tweeple and RT being just three. As well as liking, @replying and tumbling, we can now ‘pin’. And of all the social … Read More →

Wikipedia Blackout

Written by monkey. Posted on January 18, 2012. Filed under Blogs and blogging, Technology. No comments.

wikipedia blackout

This is Wikipedia today. The modern world’s most accessible knowledge base is protesting against controversial Stop Online Piracy Act tabled in the US of A. Congress have rightly been lobbied to do something about piracy … Read More →

Bigger Trees Near Warter

Written by monkey. Posted on September 30, 2011. Filed under Art, Photography. Tagged hockney. No comments.

Bigger Tress Near Warter David Hockney

Ou Peinture Sur Le Motif Pour Le Nouvel Age Post-Photographique In the digital age we tend to spend our lives looking at big things on little screens. Perhaps we sometimes lose our sense of perspective? … Read More →

The Madness of BetFairPoker

Written by monkey. Posted on July 27, 2011. Filed under Brand awareness, Social Media. Tagged betfair, branding, social, twitter. No comments.

Recently it seems the world has been going mad. It was always a pretty wacky world really (real life is always weirder than fiction of course). But lately everything just seems more surreal than normal. For instance, NASA … Read More →

Professional Bloggers

Written by monkey. Posted on July 26, 2011. Filed under Blogs and blogging. Tagged blogging, celebrity, fashion. No comments.

Pop Sugar blog Lisa Sugar $10 million

There’s no money in blogging, right? Meet three women who’ve turned weblogs from a personal fanzine into full time businesses.

Alternative Google Plus circles

Written by monkey. Posted on July 20, 2011. Filed under Social Media. Tagged google. No comments.

Alternative Google circles

Happy Place crack another missed opportunity with this little visual ditty. Wish I’d thought of it… Click to see the full version (and thanks Happy Place!)

The Sun website hacked!

Written by monkey. Posted on July 19, 2011. Filed under Newspapers. Tagged hacking, LulzSec, News International, Rupert Murdoch, The Sun. No comments.

Murdoch hacked

Rupert Murdoch got what some might call a taste of his corporation’s own medicine last night as The Sun homepage was hacked, seemingly by LulzSec. For some time during the night The Sun.co.uk redirected to a … Read More →

Dell’s Suicidal iPad Killer

Written by monkey. Posted on March 20, 2011. Filed under Technology, design. Tagged Apple, applications, Dell, iPad. No comments.

dell inspiron duo tablet pc

Trying to be more cynical than I really am, I’ve always wondered what benefits and iPad would have for me? Sure there’s all sorts of possibilities for using them at work, at home and on … Read More →