One of the more eyebrow-raising branding successes of the year has been SecondLife, the “real world” massively multiplayer online ‘game’ (or ‘environment’ maybe) which has been getting regular press – marketi[…]

There was an interesting article in this week’s Marketing Week about cider, which is undergoing something of a boom. Actually the article wasn’t especially interesting for what it said about cider itself (other than to point out that the […]

On the huge ever growing sidebar that rules from the centre of the Triggerworld you will see a section called “Current Poll” (down there, look, under the archivey bit).
We will be using this function to POLL you the FT readership on one o[…]

The Rentaghost I remember watching was the pantomine-horse era, with that Scottish woman and Audrey off Coronation Street, and it was never a favourite show, more a nice-to-have-it-around deal. So watching a DVD of the first season was interesting, i[…]

Hayao Miyazaki’s first film as writer-director, and by a staggering cosmic coincidence, the first film I got from Amazon DVD rental. Having read and liked some of his blockbuster manga telling this story, I was keen to see this. Was I disappoin[…]

Science course “more suited to pub” – a debate that strikes pretty close to Proven By Science’s original aims, this. (Perhaps “pub science” will birth “punk science” just as pub rock etc.) I think the […]

Triffic piece on Paris Hilton by the unusually shrewd pop blogger David Moore. He points out at least one thing that had me guiltily thinking back to my own lazier moments, when he talks about the way commentators (sympathetic or otherwise) invoke th[…]

The spirit of political cartooning lives on![…]

Do you want to know what’s on the Poptimism ballad giveaway CD? I bet you do. Spoilers below the “more” link!
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The 45-second “Next time…” trailers have become one of the new Doctor Who‘s most important elements. In a season of mostly self-contained stories they serve the role a cliffhanger played in the past, making sure the audience t[…]