now in colour

Terry Wogan reads Finkle and the Fish

If you liked that, you can buy my short story here. :)

Marc Jacobs genius

I love this… “the Marc Jacobs boutique in SoHo was hit by French graffiti artist Kidult [who] sprayed the word ART over the front of the store. Marc Jacobs [...] reps turned the stunt on its head [...] by making a T-Shirt of …

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Behind the scenes of the Phone Fund Game

This week, we launched an ambitious project… “What if people could power some robotic teeth along a track, just by tweeting,” someone had suggested a few weeks prior. “To win a new phone!” We confiscated their drugs and sent them …

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Intention bleed

If you want to be meaningful, you have to mean it. I believe that. Mostly. And this definition makes ‘meaningful marketing’ a potential oxymoron. The minute a person, or group of people, make a conscious decision to alter behaviour for …

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The Future is Lubricated

I was asked by the folk at the British Library if I would do a little talk for them about ‘cool digital stuff’. I decided to do that, but also to tell them not to do most of it: It’s …

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Picle fm (Dalston)

I’ve been playing with Made by Many’s Picle app and decided that a nice use of the tool might be to marry the view out my window with the sound from the radio, as I get ready each morning. So that’s …

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When should I write this weekend?

I know, I know. You’re excited about submitting a short story to Bad Dollar. And the deadline is May 31st 2012. So you’d like to make a start this weekend. But which day should you write? Your writers’ weather report …

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Coco Pops mind trick

I saw this message while getting money from a cash machine. And it freaked me out: Am I considering buying Coco Pops? I froze. I wasn’t expecting to be asked that question. I don’t think I was considering it, but …

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Poop like a penguin

I believe that ‘small’ ideas can be huge. Or, rather, that they are slippy enough to get transmitted at a large scale. And therefore, make a huge footprint. Let this be inspiration for you: Penguin poop that is visible from …

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Everything’s a platform (sort of)

Nick Farnhill made a point the other week (during a teary SXSW comedown) about there being too much focus on the usual, obvious online channels and platforms. Platforms with large communities, of course, come with obvious advantages. ‘Emerging’ platforms (Pinterest, anyone?) …

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