26 Jan 2009
Ogilvy sponsors brief at MIPTV in Cannes
Ogilvy and Unilever join forces in MIPTV this year, including a brief in the Content 360 competition: Engage with women through branded content.
9 Jan 2009
Best online car insurance experience
NMA reports that Sheila's Wheels and Churchill provide the best online car insurance experience. The ads of both are guilty pleasures - one doesn't like to admit how catchy the jingle for Sheila's Wheels really is, but it makes me want to wear pink sequins...
8 Jan 2009
UK Music charts
They announced this week that CD sales will no longer be counted in the UK Music Charts as digital downloads now drive what we'll see topping the charts.
7 Jan 2009
Today in history: history of science
Léon Foucault uses a pendulum to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth.
I've lately been reading Steven Johnson's The Invention of Air which is proving how little about the history of science I know, but how interesting it can be when told well.
Foucault had an insight. A pendulum hanging on a wire and swinging directly north and south would appear to the observer to slowly move its plane of oscillation as the Earth turned underneath it.
I've lately been reading Steven Johnson's The Invention of Air which is proving how little about the history of science I know, but how interesting it can be when told well.
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