Earning a living, in appalling rendering conditions

For all the email marketers out there - earning a living in appalling rendering conditions - This is for you.
Hat tip to the author Mathew Patterson.
You may also want to check out, or join the Email Standards Project.

Great ideas

Great Ideas need landing gear as well as wings. C.D. Jackson

The 101 most useful websites

Out of millions to choose from, the UK’s Telegraph picks the 101 most useful websites.

Out of Office

In an era of ‘On Demand’ service and the continued blurring between ‘work’ and ‘play’, is it wrong to put up an Out of Office notice on your email these days?
I am beginning to think most people display far too old fashioned notices - and hide behind them.
I am out of the office from x [...]

Résumé (or CV for us Brits)

I really like Seth Godin. Who wouldn’t in a role like mine? But today he got it wrong.
He said;
If you’re remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn’t have a résumé at all.
I agree that jobs don’t get filled by people emailing in résumés, especially jobs in start-ups, or remarkable organisations. [...]

Please help

Sport Relief
(I should apologise for bringing you here by illicit categorisation and tagging, but I won’t. You might have wasted just 10 seconds. Hopefully you will make the choice to change someone’s world in less than a minute).

Google your way to being wacky. Or pretentious?

You decide…..

Thanks Laura :-)

So you do XP huh?

Introducing the PairOn.

Making any money on your Island?


Tales from the Inside: Niklas Zennström, founder Skype, Joost & Atomico Investments

Here is an opportunity for all you technology marketers to rub shoulders and ask questions of two technology heavyweights.
Second Chance Tuesday are chatting to the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones and Niklas Zennström, the latter who was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the year in 2006 and is one [...]

Viral marketing doesn’t work


I’d love the iPhone even if I wasn’t a stealth marketing parody

Like you, I’m bombarded every minute, of every day, with advertising. And having been misled more than a few times in my life, I’m immediately skeptical of any gadget or IT product I see on the back of a magazine or in a WAGs handbag. That’s why I was so surprised by the new [...]

Geek Night 4

I went to an interesting event yesterday evening in Oxford - Oxford Geek Night 4. Oxford Geeks (and the event series) aim to pull together information and people from in and around Oxford, UK. The community is mainly aimed at geeks of computer science and/or Web development, but to be fair they’re a [...]

Two wishes

1) I wish I had a radio in my car, with an integrated hard disc that allowed me to rewind live radio to hear the traffic news again (or to forward through an advert, or hear a song I like for the second time). Easy peasy.
2) I wish that internet browsers such as Firefox [...]

Make My Logo Bigger (cream)