humour
2016 RIP
You wonāt be missed, you utter bastard of a year.
grammar
The Subs' Desk song
This one goes out to subs desks everywhereā¦ Weird Al [http://www.weirdal.com], of course.
City St Georgeās
Lunch advice from a journalism student
Just had a lousy lunch? Hereās some lunchbox advice [http://checkthis.com/lunchboxshit] from one of the MA Magazines students I teach at City: > Instead of spending Ā£7 at Pret or getting a Ā£2.50 āmeal dealā from Boots (a sandwich, crisps and drink does NOT a meal
blog platforms
Media execs! Need help understanding Tumblr?
This should solve your problemā¦
content marketing
The field guide to content marketers in the wild
A field guide to spotting a content marketer [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-blanchard/content-marketing-experts_b_3302989.html] : > This new quasi-professional class doesnāt produce actual contenty kind of content, you know: only thinly-veiled advertisements for their services. Itās really content-marketer marketing, if that makes sense, and they are
humour
Social Media is...
Well, it got me through the mid-afternoon lullā¦[via [The Next Web](http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/Fzyubl-vs54/)]
branding
TED's spinning beachball of death
Interesting that the TED Talk format has now become so established that itās capable both of subversion (as above) and [use for advertising](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/02/ted_talk_from_the_year_2023.html). The format is, in effect, the brand.
BBC
All too often, this is how social media is...
Nice satire on social media marketing stupidity, that sadly loses its way and hits predictable jokes at the end:
humour
Newsroom rivalry. There's nothing like it
I almost feel sorry for the guyā¦
humour
On Social Commerce
This made me chuckle [http://www.broadstuff.com/archives/2340-A-vacation,-and-some-observations......html] : > (A point made on one of the posts three years back was that Social Commerce was like your friend coming up to you at a pub or dinner party dressed in Coca Cola gear (or any other
apple
The Only iPhone 4 Post I Need Make
In the future, all news will be reported with unlikely CGI animationā¦
editing
Grammatical Term of the Day
The Present Inebriated [http://engineroomblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/present-inebriated.html] Grammer nerd humour FTW