The ABC has always been Amateur Hour on grooming. Its station promotions are the other weakness; sickly imitations of the commercial networks’ urgent demands for attention. I’m not suggesting they get better at copying commercial style promotions. Quite the reverse. The problem is an unwillingness to experiment with alternative advertising formats - testimonials, mash-ups, pointers, […]
Well that’s convenient. My home town Perth has won the right to host the inaugural World Blog Awards, narrowly beating Seville, Manchester and Kansas City (a long fourth). These will be held on Sunday 31st August, 2008 at a venue to be announced. More details as they come to hand.
Gene Weingarten won a Pulitzer Prize for his feature article in the Washington Post, Pearls before Breakfast. It discusses a little social experiment the paper conducted. They convinced Joshua Bell, one of the world’s leading violinists to busk at a Washington Metro station, curious to know if commuters would react to wonderful violin pieces wonderfully […]
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