Category Archives: Media

Reputation in Volatile Markets

Stretching out with the weekend papers and a temperature-perfect flat white whilst the children quietly potter in the garden on a warm, lazy Saturday afternoon is the stuff of fantasy and home improvement ads. But, quite remarkably, Dr Serendipity made … Continue reading

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The Future is Medieval

You know, history has a habit of cheating us. Rarely are historic moments anything but moments in an otherwise uneventful week. It’s only when retrospect gets out its nifty little marker pen that we realise how head-slappingly naïve we’ve been … Continue reading

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Simple, Honest Rules to Social Acceptance

Social media is a paradox. It continues to confuse, enrage and enlighten as one. But for those brands that make the intellectual investment to better understand it, there is untold opportunity to connect with the very people whose trust they … Continue reading

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Holiday Reading

It’s taken all of a week perched on the eastern tip of the Australian coastline to realise that a decent holiday has little to do with location and everything to do with connectivity – or, to be precise, the lack … Continue reading

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Happy New Year?

It is blisteringly hot here in Sydney today. Scorched bare feet are causing millions to hop their way to the harbour foreshore in the New Year scramble for a vantage point to catch Sydney’s annual spectacle, the midnight firework extravaganza. … Continue reading

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Ignorance is Bliss

Has it really been 6 weeks? Can I really pace through one full month and a fortnight without sharing or proffering an opinion on something people, media or communications-related? It’s not as if we’ve been short of news, after all. … Continue reading

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Mad Max

One of the great pleasures of life in any major Metropolis is the chance to conduct a thorough paw through the local weekend broadsheet, a tree lover’s nightmare if ever there was one. Be it the Sunday Times or the … Continue reading

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Infinite Plus One

To the untrained eye, Suffolk (on the east coast of England) doesn’t have much going for it. For the most part it’s flat, grey and wet, particularly on dark winter weekends. In the months that buffer the odd lazy summer … Continue reading

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Going Numb with Noise

This past week, I have been accosted by noise. Not single decibel blasts that deafen the senses and have you clasping cupped palms over perforated eardrums. No. More the unrelenting din that comes with too much said too loudly without … Continue reading

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Lost for Words

The news that Kate and Gerry McCann have been named as suspects in the disappearance of Madeleine has ripped another layer of skin from what is already a very raw and painful story. This weekend I could go nowhere with … Continue reading

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