Archive for March, 2008
Ending the constraints of written expression - aka free form jazz
Now I have pellacor up and running; and slowly begin to develop the style and voice here: offline I have been experimenting with different forms of written expression trying to find ways to free up the written language from the tight constraints of syntax.
On a couple of occasions this has been sitting up [...]
They sent us Playboy, they gave us Bob Hope
It is a big mistake to lump all social media together as if it were a single entity, or in fact even remotely similar, like network television, or metropolitan newspapers.
The fact is that social media is as diverse as the people you have walked past this morning on your way to the office; [...]
Its like raaaaiiiin on your wedding day
The newspaper industry underwent a period of massive consolidation during the latter part of the 20th Century. This was a result of new digital technologies that predated the rise of the internet but facilitated the sharing of articles from a single newsroom across different newspaper titles within a single company. This meant newspaper [...]
Read More..>>Government department misses the point
Complete waste of our money.
When you have such great internationally recognised advice, how does this happen?
Am I missing the social media tie in? Is this supported by national media campaigns?
It feels like tv on the web, and as such it will fail.
How easy it would be to show me how you feel
I have exactly three posts on the go and in between work and life and the ramshackle way I think about things; none of it is ready “for print”
For this, I am sorry.
In my working world of subs and editors, or even peer review - pellacor feels very naked.
So instead of REAL content [...]
Being but men
Being but men, we walked into the trees
Afraid, letting our syllables be soft
For fear of waking the rooks,
For fear of coming
Noiselessly into a world of wings and cries.
If we were children we might climb,
Catch the rooks sleeping, and break no twig,
And, afert the soft ascent,
Thrust out our heads above the branches
To wonder at the unfailing [...]
Foot in mouth
I had a conversation last week with the New Zealand Olympic Committee about the possibility of supplying some content onto their site for the games in Beijing. They said they would be open to it in the future, but had hired their own writer for the Olympics. I kinda suggested that maybe content [...]
Read More..>>Petty and spiteful car parking building episode
I was so far into a post about a bad customer experience I have had today at Lombard Car Parking Building when I realised, there is no point ranting - I can express myself within google.
So here goes guys:
Lombard Car Parking Building is the worst car parking building in New Zealand.
It is [...]
Crying cockles and mussels alive, alive, oh
To some people sales and selling can be dirty words, inspiring images of real estate agents and car salesman using unscrupulous tactics, pressure and feelings of loss. But selling is the foundation of commerce and we all earn money that had been generated through sales at some point.
On an abstract level, selling is obtaining [...]
Love is not a victory march; it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah
We all experience this life apart; and that separation wrenches a hole in our subjective which can never be completely filled. In a perfect world we would be able to share our sorrows and joys; we would be able to see through the night, by knowing the morning sun fills us again.
This is [...]