Search Advertising and Content Advertising

October 31, 2009

What is the difference between the terms ’search advertising’ and ‘content advertising’?
I think the simplest way to describe it is to use an analogy from traditional print media.
Content advertising is like the ads you find in a magazine. You read the magazine for whatever interests you, and the ads are placed by advertisers who [...]

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Paparazzi Graffiti Rambi

October 20, 2009

I was thinking about plurals and singulars of words in Italian.
‘Paparazzi’ and ‘graffiti’ are the plural forms. the singular forms are paparizzo and graffito.
Which got me thinking about the film Rambo, and how that is the singular form. And the actor is Italian, so it kind of fits.
So a ninja army of him would be [...]

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NHS Doctors

October 20, 2009

Reflections on National Health Service doctors in England
I was thinking back over whether I ought to have become a doctor. It once seemed an attractive idea. Then I thought that in a way, there is no relief. Everywhere you look there are more bodies. Say hello to someone you meet on the street or in [...]

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Estate Agencies for £1

October 16, 2009

The Guardian reports today that Lloyds Bank has sold its Halifax estate agencies for £1 to Your Move, with the loss of as many as 460 jobs.
Halifax estate agencies were part of Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) banking group that was bought by Lloyds a year ago.
Oh yes, and before that Bank of Scotland bought [...]

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Cannot Tell Right From Wrong

September 24, 2009

In law, one of the definitions of insanity that relieve a person being tried in court for a crime is that they cannot tell right from wrong.
Idleness is the mother of all vices
(The devil makes work for idle hands)
Necessity is the mother of invention
Desire is the engine of necessity
Enlightenment is freedom from desire
Freedom from desire [...]

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Cheap Meals in the House of Commons

September 18, 2009

ITN News reported yesterday that something over half of the country’s 645 MPs owe a total of £140,000 for food eaten and drink drunk in what it describes as Parliament’s restaurants.
What the report also states is that food and drink in the Commons enjoys a subsidy of £6,100,000 per year.
£6,100,000 divided among 645 MPs [...]

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Threaded Comments in Wordpress

September 18, 2009

I read about threaded comments in Wordpress at desizntech and was probably pointed to that (can’t recall for sure) by Richard Darell who tweets from Stockholm as @minervity
Richard’s tweets are very useful and he also runs Minervity, a blog that is worth a regular look for the topics it covers – from Photoshop to free [...]

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