Last night, I was out with some male friends, and as Antoine wasn’t with us, I thought it would be a good time for me to get nosy and ask them about their experiences of romantic relationships, what drives them crazy about women, etc. Call it research.
All I can say is, after the conversations […]
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Latitude, the search engine marketing company where I’ve been head of marketing since last June, was today named the fastest growing media company in the UK and Ireland. Sweet.
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Paul Marks puts into words something I have pondered more than is perhaps healthy:
Most people seem to think that we have a ‘free market’ government, and that Mr Blair is very ‘pro-business’. I can understand people thinking the government is very close to some businessmen (the people who are connected politically), but there is a […]
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Antoine’s grandfather, Exbrayat, was a famous French writer. He invented the genre of the humorous detective novel and wrote more than 100 books (plus several plays and films), on which his first name, Charles, never appeared. You can read more about him here, at the Exbrayat blog that Antoine and I set up yesterday.
We […]
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I can scarcely believe that this is a BBC programme:
Every week we are assailed by scare stories about the climate. Malaria in Africa, hurricanes in Florida, even the death of frogs in Latin America - all are being linked to global warming. But does the science behind these claims really stand up, or are the […]
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In addition to Google’s policy that gambling is so evil that gaming companies cannot bid for paid search terms related to gambling - you know, because we all need Google to protect us from ourselves - eBay also cares so much about each and every one of us that it goes to extreme measures to […]
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Updates galore at my photoblog.
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Adriana’s Easter vigil sounds glorious.
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Yeah, that’s from Cluetrain. Don’t like it? Don’t care.
Brian Micklethwait links to a fairly no-duh comment about the power of the hyperlink. It’s worth noting, though, because the point seems to have eluded a lot of people. If you think that linking to your sources is just a big glass of Google juice that […]
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This is worth revisiting.
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Don’t tell the editor of the Miami Herald:
We are beyond being satisfied with incremental change and giving polite head nods toward other media platforms. We are going to execute fundamental restructuring to support that pledge. Every job in the newsroom — EVERY JOB — is going to be redefined to include a web responsibility and, […]
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“Why are you so grumpy today?” Antoine asked me, totally lacking in hostility and full of genuine curiosity.
I wasn’t grumpy: I was merely suffering from the frustration that comes when a new Mac owner tries to get her slick little machine online. (Actually, I’ve had the Mac for nearly a year, but haven’t had the […]
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Regarding my post on Oprah Winfrey, our friend Paul Marks writes to Antoine in email (from which Paul has kindly allowed me to quote):
[Oprah] understands (for herself) that wealth does not create poverty. But, sadly, the lady supports people who hold that doctrine as a basic article of faith.
Take the case of Peru.
Almost utterly […]
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I’ve found a website that - save for the silly “Make Poverty History” banner across the top righthand corner - has the EXACT design I want for my personal website. It is beautiful - check out the different coloured Victorian backgrounds on each page, and the pretty drawings all over the place. I really, really […]
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