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Bond shenanigans in Sydney
Daniel Craig & entourage hit Sydney for the premiere of Quantum of Solace. Frenzied photo madness. Looking forward to the next installment. Blogging from the red carpet (well, just to the side!). Here’s a few pics, not the best quality (iPhone), but you get the idea.. Rachael is interviewing Marc Forster on Tuesday!!
A matter of semantics
This is a blog version of my magazine article for Inside Film, Issue #115. It’s a review and point of view on some of the latest developments in search and the importance of making rich content stand out online. Searchable Video Online video, whether it resides on Meta Cafe, Vimeo, Revver, MySpace, Current TV, or [...]
McCain vs. Obama – undisputed presidential championship
Feels like forever that we’ve been getting to know Obama, on flickr, twitter, facebook, youtube, blogs, tv, and the iPhone etc etc. Isn’t he running America already? Last September I was in Washington Square, NYC and was lucky enough to catch Obama speaking. It was an empowering address that had the crowd ‘fired up and [...]
Scanned photos from Chile 1994
I’ve recently reconnected with an old friend, Tom Kay (top pic, far right), via an article in Monocle magazine (as you do!). For your interest the article was about the company his behind Finisterre Technical Apparel based in the UK. Anyway, back in 1994 Tom and I travelled to Chile with Operation Raleigh (now called [...]
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Digital Strategy pres for the APG
Yesterday I presented at the APG (Account Planning Group) Australia. I was asked by one of our planners to put together a session on digital planning. I felt that the session needed to cover how to plan for today’s fragmented media landscape, the tools that can help us with insights and what we can expect [...]
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Blip.fm the annotated music network
Annoying that the embeddable button (above) doesn’t really work with my widget width (you know what I mean, right?). Enjoy this whilst its on my homepage (click play), which will probably be a while, as my publishing behaviour is far from regular so it’ll take some time to move to the next. More importantly have [...]
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THE PLAYGROUND WEEKENDER 08 – HIGHLIGHTS (UNOFFICIAL)
Few local celebs in the crowd.
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iTunes Movie Rentals a point of view
This is a blog version of the article I wrote for INSIDEFILM #107 (download pdf) March 2008 edition. Following the announcement of iTunes Movie Rentals. iDistribute Australian consumers are not just at the end of the food chain, they’re part of it – iTunes ready or not. In mid-January at Macworld, Apple launched iTunes Movie [...]
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Kittens sing my name, sing my name
New work from us. Get happy with the bankwest kittens who’ll sing a little song for you.
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2007, Digital Creative, year in review
This is a blog version of the article I wrote for INSIDEFILM #105 (click to download pdf) Dec 07/Jan 08 edition. Looking back at the year seems to get harder and harder, simply for the fact that so much keeps happening. A poll of web-savvy peers produced unanimous praise for Radiohead’s In Rainbows release and [...]
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Mr Whitty Sings Christmas ‘LIVE’ at HOST
All this week (17-21 December) we have Mr Whitty, the jazz songster, stationed in our reception. Through the magic of the ‘interweb’ you can dedicate a song to a friend and he’ll sing it for you live on webcam. Plus, between the hours of 1-2pm (Sydney time only), its happy hour when one of the [...]
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ABC Media Report. My first radio interview.
Yesterday, The Media Report, presented by Antony Funnell, covered The future of advertising online. Antony interviewed two experts and me. The first Professor Duane Varan, he’s the Director of the Interactive Television Research Institute at Murdoch University in Western Australia. The second, Anne Parsons who is the Chief Executive of the media buying agency, MediaCom. [...]
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Interview with Marc Forster, Director of Quantum of Solace