List of the top words and phrases in the Political ‘Vexicon’ contains a mixture of new entries and ‘old favourites’ Polifiller, the automated political jargon removal tool, today announces its 2020 awards for the worst […]
Hello, have you heard?
Hasn’t the world changed? Old-fashioned neighbourliness isn’t what it was. All of us have found digital neighbours with whom we have much more in common. We’ve become more tribal, tapping into nationwide and worldwide communities […]
The ‘How Not To’ Guide to PR
ABANDON OLD ROPE YE WHO ENTER HERE Hello. The freshly-updated ‘How Not To‘ Guide to PR is now available as a downloadable PDF. This guide features the contributions of several hundred journalists, writing or editing […]
Case Studies
Click here to download a selection of Hamish Thompson’s work. These case studies illustrate tactics rather than strategy, but they give a sense of thought process and outcomes. He’d be happy to share more detail […]
Daily-ish fact
Karen Carpenter’s doorbell chimed the 6 opening notes of ‘We’ve only just begun’.
THE BUZZSAW TECH JARGON AWARDS 2020
List reflects this year’s most frequent tech buzzword submissions by editors and correspondents to www.thebuzzsaw.co.uk, now in its 10th year The Buzzsaw, an online tool that strips the buzzwords out of press releases, speeches and blog posts, […]
The BUZZSAW AWARDS 2020
THE BUZZSAW AWARDS 2020 List reflects this year’s most frequent submissions to www.thebuzzsaw.co.uk, now in its 10th year The Buzzsaw, an online tool that strips the buzzwords out of press releases, speeches and blog posts, today announces […]
The Prawn Identity
Australia’s a big place. Commuting from one self-isolation location to another responsibly, while avoiding the few airlines flying, I clocked up enough miles to drive from London to Tehran. There are miles and miles of […]
Connected isolation
I half expect that I’ll spot Woody from the Bay City Rollers on the forecourt, his head looking even more like a failed game of Ker Plunk.
To sleep, perchance to dream…
While on the subject of lists (see my previous blog post), here’s a whole selection of facts about sleep, gleaned from a variety of internet lists, supported by further digging. I can’t remember what this […]
Fake news: there’s (probably) a bylaw for that
While researching a potential story for a client, I found, scattered across the internet, a whole subgenre of lists of archaic bylaws that are still current. In typical internet fashion, many of the lists simply […]