As News of the World closes, we might be getting better at making business accountable

08.07.2011/06.32

So James Murdoch has announced the end of the News of the World. It’s no biggie: as others have discovered, a domain name for The Sun on Sunday has been registered, and if this is by an agent of News International, it simply makes sense for the Murdoch Press to consolidate its tabloid brands and […]

Saab to get €245 million if Pang Da and Youngman deal approved

04.07.2011/14.01

Today, from Saab: Swedish Automobile N.V. (SWAN) and Saab Automobile AB (Saab Automobile) today announced the signing of ﬁnal agreements with Pang Da Automobile Trade Co., Ltd. (Pang Da) and Zhejiang Youngman Lotus Automobile Co., Ltd. (Youngman), thereby converting the non-binding memorandum of understanding relating to the equity investment of Pang Da and Youngman … […]

Google organized the web, Facebook our social networks; what does Plus do?

01.07.2011/13.46

I see the Google press machine has been switched on as the company pursues the Facebook social-networking market with Plus. Google, I’m betting, must hope that history will repeat itself. It wasn’t the ﬁrst search engine, it simply did it better. Plus, in Googleland, it is a better proverbial mousetrap than Facebook. I might […]

A whinge about whinging

19.06.2011/11.46

I’ve seen this lament on a few more places now: why bother having a comment box? We’ve just had someone tell us at Lucire that there is no such person as Princess Catherine. Well done. We all know that technically there is no such person, if one is referring to the wife of Prince […]

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Wellington Airport ﬂip-ﬂops again, but pennies drop more quickly in Queensland

01.06.2011/10.52

Today, those of us on the anti-‘Wellywood’ sign page got some welcome news: that Wellington Airport would reconsider. But, I had to point out, this is again déjà vu. Last time, the Airport ﬂip-ﬂopped as well, and said it would consult the public. Given that the resource consent for ‘Wellywood’ was for nine […]

With ‘Wellywood’, Wellington Airport misses the point about how to brand a city

21.05.2011/06.22

I think this shows just how badly Wellington Airport CEO Steve Fitzgerald misses the point: Being niche and understated is cool positioning for a local audience, but to be relevant on the world tourism trail, we need to shout about why we are great. Actually, not always. And even if we did have to […]

Time to ﬁght the Wellywood sign—again

/01.24

Wellywood sign: see blog posts from last year (like this). You’d think Wellington Airport would know that the majority of residents are against this awful idea. An intelligent person would think: ﬂoating an idea in 2011 that was nearly universally rejected in Wellington in 2010 isn’t smart. Yet that’s exactly what they’ve done. […]

The new groups: we’re not spamming you, Facebook is

17.05.2011/12.04

Facebook’s new groups have received criticism for two things: (a) you ﬁnd yourself in groups you never asked to join; and (b) you are suddenly on a spam list. When several of our groups were faced with the options of ‘archiving’ (i.e. closure and the deletion of all members) or upgrading, I chose the […]

Autocade hits 1,500-model milestone

08.05.2011/13.27

Thanks most recently to the work of Keith Adams, who added numerous important models into Autocade, we now have reached 1,500 models. The 1,500th is a bit mainstream, but after all the odd cars we’ve put in over the last three years, it’s nice to have something almost everyone knows. Audi TT (8J). 2006 to […]

Stefan Engeseth hits 1,000 posts on Detective Marketing blog

21.04.2011/13.54

Martin Lindeskog Congratulations to my good friend Stefan Engeseth on reaching 1,000 posts on his blog today! It’s even more of a milestone when you realize Stefan is not blogging in his native tongue. Add to that the fact that he suffers from dyslexia. But we follow his blog because we admire several […]