Survey sez

Lately, I’ve begun to feel like one of those anonymous but oft-referred to people ‘behind the board’ on Family Feud. You know ones responsible for answering the questions the panelists try to guess.By that I mean I’ve been getting more and more...

Vintage Google

In honour of its 10th anniversary, Google has treated us to a youthful version of itself; the web circa 2001. It’s quite charming really and the searches yield no Wikipedia results – unless, of course, you type in ‘Wikipedia’.I found an early...

A ‘Bold’ failure to communicate

I’ve been having a few email issues lately. Mostly related to my Blackberry.Sometimes, when I forward an email, random words (and even whole sentences) get cut up, deleted and garbled (or as one email said, rbld). It’s as if I’m writing in a bizarre...

Bang, bang, my baby shot me down…*

I was walking home today and happened to pass a Norman Rockwell-esque family moment: a hot and hazy mid-summer evening; a young boy (around five or six) is playfully chasing his slightly older sister; her mock screams, a sound like enjoyment.What makes this scene a...

More Mesh

In today’s morning session at Mesh, Richard Edelman, of the eponymous agency, was intelligent, articulate and insightful.And he offered a wonderful description of the PR practitioner’s role: advisor, conscience, connector to influencers, source of creative...