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Top Of The Pops: (probably not the) final word
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Branding expert Mark Ritson in Marketing magazine this week, in his article on the “Ten Branding Lessons” to be learned from ToTP’s demise.
 Brand naming is always more important later, rather than sooner. Yes, Top Of The Pops was […]

A Minor IRK
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Something that would be banned if I WAS IN CHARGE: those radio and TV quizzes where there are three answers and two are obviously wrong, because there’s some law preventing people from just doing prize draws on TVs. Either change the law or bri[…]

The Morning / Lunchtime / Evening Guardian
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You have to hand it to the Guardian. When it comes to dipping their toes into new media they pretty much out do all the other trad news sources in the UK, with on the BBC’s online content coming anywhere near close to navigability and comprehen[…]

Porn Porn Yes Porn I Said Porn
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Hello. You are probably here because this page, on a pop culture site, is #6 on searches for “porn” on Bing.
There is no porn here. There never was porn here. There used to be an article about how using the word ‘porn’ as a me[…]

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The Windy Shakey Barley
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I like Ken Loach, I do, but he don’t half like tragedy. Looking for a Loach film with a happy ending is like searching for an original idea in the head of a horror film producer. And whilst happy endings aren’t very realistic, and often s[…]

Houses with paper walls shouldn’t rock like this
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Courtesy of the koganbot comes notice of this new cyber-hang-out: paper thin walls. Key attraction for our patrons must be daily reviews of a reasonably varied assortment of tracks by a hand-picked squad of trig-friendly writers who’ve thrown a[…]

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