Lighting the Fuse

One of the wonderful things about working at WPP is the annual Stream event. Stream is a digital event that brings together some of our agencies together with clients, VC’s, investors, entrepreneurs, journalists, bloggers and interesting people with a POV on digital and how it is changing our lives. This year we ran the first […]

This is pretty amazing. The production company was apparently filming this car commercial, when they accidentally captured what can only be an image of a ghost on camera. Before you watch, turn the sound on (you need to turn it up quite loud, or you won’t hear it). Then watch the car very closely.  Just […]

Seriously, words fail me in trying to describe this. Instead, I will simply reproduce a small sample of the comment this has generated on youtube (where, by the way, the video has notched up an impressive 1,617 dislikes, compared with 248 likes – presumably most of who work for the agency that created it.) “this […]

Has one of Spinal Tap’s old roadies gone to work at the BBC? Of course Spinal Tap were famous partly because their Amps all went to 11. Cos its louder, innit. And once everything is at 10, the amps are at 10, the EQs are at 10, the guitar is at 10, where do you […]

Does the video for the best crowd participation in a video clip go to the Bay City Rollers and Ann Margaret for Saturday Night? Click image to watch the video. Probably.

Check out this amazing new Apple Laptop.  Brilliant innovation from Apple Inc to finally get rid of the annoying keyboard and just put in the jog wheel.   Apparently this computer is the reason they have removed the jog wheel from all their other devices, they wanted to introduce exclusively to this range of laptops. […]

One of the most obvious forms of leadership, one that is judged immediately based on the performance that is generated from the team there and then, is that of the conductor of an orchestra.   Even here at WPP, the internal senior leadership course is called Maestro, and the take home gift is a conductor’s baton, the […]

I say this with caution, as I have said it before, only for the site to crash again, but….. After what seems like ages of absence for unknown reasons, the awesome Uniqlo calendar is back! The link below  comes with two major health warnings. Health Warning 1. If you are anything like me, you will […]

Google getting in trouble with streetview. Facebook attracting the ire of the world’s community (and its regulators) through spectacular own goals like Beacon. Companies like Phorm launching products which sail outrageously close to the wind of reasonable use of data. There are regular examples in the mainstream press which highlight the need for a sensible […]

A while ago, I promised regular wordle updates, to see what this great blogging experiment was turning up. What am I writing about. Why. All big questions. So, dear reader(s – if there are more than one of you out there), here it is, accurate as of the 6 August. … and here is a […]