A customer’s voice and opinion has never been as loud as it is today. With the expansion of social media and the ability to allow users to interact with brands directly and publicly, normal every day people are growing ever more important and in control of which brands succeed or flop. Consumers h ... more

It's the Third Thursday of the month and Mark is pumping iron in Spain.Other links referenced...100 Vehicles for Babies and Toddlers100 Animals for Babies and Toddlers ... more

Another month and another monthly mind cleansing Grinds My Gears.  Earlier this month I read a news article that really rattled my cage. Schools are being urged to introduce more ‘female friendly’ physical education lessons into the national curriculum. Now, when I was in ... more

This month I’m dedicating Grinds my Gears to something that annoys me 100%. That means it annoys me to the ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM. No more of me can be wound up because there is no higher percentage. No, it is not possible to annoy me 110% or 150% or any other higher percent than 100 because th ... more

So this month for some unknown reason I put my hand up and volenteered to do "grinds my gears". It's taken longer than expected to find something that actually annoys me but here it is... the subverting of hackathons into investment competitions. What is a hackathon? In its ... more

If you follow any tech blogs, or any blogs in general really, you’ll probably have noticed that in the past few months people are increasingly talking about ‘Pinterest’. But what exactly is it and why has it suddenly become the topic of conversation online? An introd ... more

  The regular light-hearted whinge about life in a busy agency. Although this time, it’s less light-hearted than usual. It’s not an original idea and people have debated it forever: it’s about whether agencies should be paid to pitch. It’s not that we sho ... more

So rather fortuitously (or not, depending on your point of view) Third Thursday this month has fallen slap bang in the middle of perhaps the biggest controversy to affect the internet since it’s commercial release (1995, for any budding geek historians out there). I think we can all agree ... more

This months Family Guy style light hearted rant is about my irritation of how people have started using Facebook and Twitter statuses as if they were lines in their own personal diary. The informative nature of the Facebook or Twitter status has been downgraded. Do we really need to k ... more

This month’s festive grinds my gears is something that I'm only reminded of once a year, but every year without fail it gets to me. Christmas Pudding! Hot, delicious, moist, fruity goodness topped off with a bit of booze and cream. What could be better? Nothing. So, why if it ... more