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• A brighter shade of green

  The green movement is a little off-colour, according to research from pollster Ipsos Mori. In the UK at least, environmental concerns reached a peak in January 2007. A year on they have dropped by more than half, replaced by increasing concern over the Read More... Posted 30 May 2008 18:21 by Niall Cook | 1 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous, Personal, Environment, Green

• You May Prefer to Give us a Call... Part 2

  If you enjoyed my last post , you'll love this one. I've been trying to transfer my electricity supply to another supplier since I moved into my house last September. A catalogue of errors on the part of the incumbent supplier mean that it has only just Read More... Posted 28 March 2008 10:41 by Niall Cook | 2 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous, Marketing Technology, Reputation, Personal

• You May Prefer to Give us a Call...

  I should have known better than to attempt to use public transport the first day after a bank holiday weekend. In the UK, they're the times when demand is high yet supply decreases as a result of "engineering works". Over Christmas there was an outcry Read More... Posted 25 March 2008 16:26 by Niall Cook | 2 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous, Marketing Technology, Reputation, Personal

• Who do you trust most, Facebook or the Government?

  According to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), young people could be putting themselves at risk of identity fraud because of the material they post on social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. At least it's information they control (the Read More... Posted 23 November 2007 09:32 by Niall Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous, Social Media, Personal

• High-quality YouTube videos - a contradiction in terms?

  At the NewTeeVee Live conference, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen announced that high-quality YouTube video streams are coming soon. One assumes he is referring to quality in the technical, rather than the creative, sense. Read More... Posted 15 November 2007 08:08 by Niall Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous

• You Grumpy Old Blogger!

  Is it me, or is all this social media making me grumpy? Today I've had someone who sent me a message on Facebook in order to try and sell their creative design services as well as a researcher from one of the UK media databases wanting to list me as a Read More... Posted 17 October 2007 17:21 by Niall Cook | 8 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous, Social Media

• Think Tanks

  Tonight I'm going to learn all about think tanks, those organisations that shape UK Government policy. Despite the tube strikes, H&K are hosting an event to launch a piece of research "analysing the views of parliamentarians, civil servants, Read More... Posted 04 September 2007 17:57 by Niall Cook | 5 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous, Reputation

• Pot. Kettle. Black?

  The second thing I found revealing about WikiScanner is how much coverage it is getting from the same media who are being exposed by it. To highlight just one organisation amongst many, the BBC News website picks on Diebold in their article about WikiScanner Read More... Posted 21 August 2007 10:33 by Niall Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous, Social Media, Reputation

• More Corporate B****cks

  I loved Jeff Nolan's "Corporate Doublespeak" translations : Total Customer Experience = we want our customers to like us in addition to our products/services. Strategic = it’s important. Synergistic = by doing something extra we’ll get more Read More... Posted 27 July 2007 09:27 by Niall Cook | 1 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous

• iPhone iDrone = iPathy?

  Is it me, or is the constant barrage of self-serving blog and twitter posts about the iPhone starting to create so much noise that you just want to tune it all out? Read More... Posted 06 July 2007 09:23 by Niall Cook | 2 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous, Personal

• Google knows best

  I've become increasingly annoyed that whenever I access www.google.com on a mobile device, I am automatically sent to their mobile interface ( www.google.com/m ). Primarily this means that any results I view are "adapted for mobile phone" according to Read More... Posted 19 April 2007 15:05 by Niall Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous

• Don's Olympic journey

  The people at Hill & Knowlton are a pretty diverse bunch, which is the source of our creative friction and passion. This diversity extends to our families too. Of course we have the MD of the World Rock Paper Scissors Society , but there's now a bit Read More... Posted 15 March 2007 11:06 by Niall Cook | 1 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous

• Adam who?

  There's a new £20 note in circulation featuring a portrait of Adam Smith, but apparently no-one knows who he is. Maybe it's time for a celebrity face to appear on a British bank note. Who do you think would be most fitting? (Apart from Pavarotti on a Read More... Posted 13 March 2007 13:32 by Niall Cook | 4 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous

• Shortlisted

  Hurrah. We found out yesterday that the blog campaign we ran for LG's Chocolate phone has been shortlisted for the Revolution Awards. Better dust down that dinner jacket (and check it still fits - ahem!) ready for the shindig at a swanky hotel on 16 March. Read More... Posted 23 January 2007 16:11 by Niall Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous, Client-related

• Why I'm ditching Bloglines

  Updated 17 November 2006 : As I have a server or two at my disposal, I stumbled across a product called Tiny Tiny RSS . So far it's behaving, although I had to tweak the PHP code to get it to run under my WIMP environment. Lots of AJAX features make it Read More... Posted 14 November 2006 10:42 by Niall Cook | 4 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous