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Troubled computer and software giant HP has confirmed the departure of chief Leo Apotheker, after he was ousted by the board on Thursday. During his 11 month tenure, Apotheker has seen the company's share price plummet after several u-turns on company strategy.
Of note is the $1.2bn purchase of Palm in 2010, which has now been written off and WebOS, the software HP was so keen to get its hands on at the time, has been binned. The move was a complete u-turn on plans announced in March under which the WebOS operating system would be installed on every PC shipped by HP. In fact, HP is getting out of the hardware business altogether, despite it being one of the world's biggest players, with Apotheker announcing plans to spin off the Personal Systems Group as a separate entity if it can't find a buyer.
This week HP began laying off over 500 staff directly involved in the WebOS platform and the company is refocusing on cloud computing, following the recent $10bn purchase of Autonomy.
It's the second time in two years Apotheker has been forced out of a top role. He joined HP from SAP, which he left under a cloud, after SAP was accused of stealing software from Oracle and reselling it to the latter's customers at a reduced price.
HP's new CEO, effective immediately, is Meg Whitman, the former head of eBay, who is credited with building it into a global force, has a history as strategic planner at Disney and once ran for governor of California.
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Junction Solutions, a leading provider of vertical, market-specific on-premise and on-demand software applications and services for the food and beverage, and multi-channel retail sectors, today announced that Christian Hutter, senior vice president, Food & Beverage for Junction Solutions, was named to the 2013 Pros to Know by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine.
Now in its 13th year, the Supply & Demand Chain Executive "Pros to Know" awards recognize both ends of the supply chain. This includes honoring the "providers," which includes individuals from software firms, service providers, consultancies or academia who helped their supply chain clients or the supply chain community prepare to meet industry challenges. This also includes honoring the "practitioners," e.g., those supply chain executives who demonstrated leadership by managing risk in the supply chain; provided competitive advantage; and delivered value to the bottom line.
"The efforts that a number of the industry's leading executives continue to take to improve their business's functionality and in turn, progress the global supply chain—this was one of the main reasons we started the 'Pros to Know' awards in the first place," confirmed Barry Hochfelder, Editor, Supply & Demand Chain Executive.
"It's an honor to be recognized in the 2013 Pros to Know," said Hutter. "Rising costs, fluctuating demand and the complexity of government and industry regulations are all contributing to the growing supply chain challenges faced by food and beverage enterprises. Junction Solutions delivers products and services which not only address the evolving and complex supply chain challenges in the food industry but also help companies improve their performance, creating a competitive edge for long-term growth."
Hutter is a leading technology expert on the Food & Beverage supply chain and has overseen and managed a variety of projects to drive process improvement, reduce waste and costs, protect margins, meet compliance requirements, improve visibility and create actionable intelligence throughout the supply chain - from source to consumer. Junction Solutions can provide manufacturers/distributors with enterprise applications specifically designed for the food and beverage manufacturing and distribution market that includes the complex area of field-to-fork traceability. Through his leadership, he took field-to-fork traceability even further and helped turn traceability into a marketing tool two years ago with the industry's first mobile traceability software application that enables food enterprises to communicate product information - including origin of product, expiration dates, packaging information, allergen facts, food recall information and marketing promotions, such as recipes and couponing - directly to the consumer at the point of sale.
The full list of 2013 "Pros to Know" awards winners are available: www.sdcexec.com. The expanded awards coverage and winners list will appear in the March 2013 issue of Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine and online thereafter.
About Junction Solutions
Junction Solutions provides vertical-specific on-premise, hosted and cloud-based software and services that enhance operational performance, reduce costs, expand delivery channels and strengthen relationships. Built in Microsoft Dynamics® AX and designed specifically for food and beverage and multi-channel retail companies, Junction Solutions' portfolio includes enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM−demand, warehouse, yard and transportation management), production and scheduling optimization, trade promotions management, direct store delivery management, merchandising, order entry and call center management and mobile/web-enabled product sourcing and traceability. For more information, please visit www.junctionsolutions.com.
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WebRTC is bringing significant change to the communications landscape that will bridge the worlds of web and telephony, making the Internet the new standard for communications. Cloud9 took the road less traveled and used WebRTC to create a downloadable enterprise-grade communications platform that is changing the communication dynamic in the financial sector. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Leo Papadopoulos, CTO of Cloud9, discussed the importance of WebRTC and how it enables companies to focus...
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Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) have entered into a definitive agreement under which Verizon will acquire Yahoo's operating business for approximately $4.83 billion in cash, subject to customary closing adjustments. Yahoo informs, connects and entertains a global audience of more than 1 billion monthly active users** -- including 600 million monthly active mobile users*** through its search, communications and digital content products. Yahoo also co...
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A critical component of any IoT project is what to do with all the data being generated. This data needs to be captured, processed, structured, and stored in a way to facilitate different kinds of queries. Traditional data warehouse and analytical systems are mature technologies that can be used to handle certain kinds of queries, but they are not always well suited to many problems, particularly when there is a need for real-time insights.
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Amazon has gradually rolled out parts of its IoT offerings in the last year, but these are just the tip of the iceberg. In addition to optimizing their back-end AWS offerings, Amazon is laying the ground work to be a major force in IoT – especially in the connected home and office. Amazon is extending its reach by building on its dominant Cloud IoT platform, its Dash Button strategy, recently announced Replenishment Services, the Echo/Alexa voice recognition control platform, the 6-7 strategic...
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IoT generates lots of temporal data. But how do you unlock its value? You need to discover patterns that are repeatable in vast quantities of data, understand their meaning, and implement scalable monitoring across multiple data streams in order to monetize the discoveries and insights. Motif discovery and deep learning platforms are emerging to visualize sensor data, to search for patterns and to build application that can monitor real time streams efficiently. In his session at @ThingsExpo, ...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that LeaseWeb USA, a cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. LeaseWeb is one of the world's largest hosting brands. The company helps customers define, develop and deploy IT infrastructure tailored to their exact business needs, by combining various kinds cloud solutions.
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There will be new vendors providing applications, middleware, and connected devices to support the thriving IoT ecosystem. This essentially means that electronic device manufacturers will also be in the software business. Many will be new to building embedded software or robust software. This creates an increased importance on software quality, particularly within the Industrial Internet of Things where business-critical applications are becoming dependent on products controlled by software. Qua...
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While bands such as Peace and Swim Deep possess a doe-eyed psychedilc sense of nostalgia Bombers have always held a more twisted and daggered approach to their blend of post punk. Where as previous single Drawing had a doom laden snarl of Nick Cave and Joy Division with hints of No Wave, Forecast andThe Way You Think You Look hold more a minimal sense of nonchalance; declaring a sense of frustration, confusion and wry observations of bands like The Fall.
Not ones to be pigeonholed the dark undertones are still there but this time its stripped back with exasperated fury. They are still hitting the live circuit with relentless energy and it's the uncontrollable live force that's making their reputation spread across the UK.
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Starring: Clint Eastwood, Warren Clarke, Freddie Jones & David Huffman Director: Clint Eastwood Rated:
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- Run Time: 2 hours, 16 minutes
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- Released: June 1, 2010
- Originally Released: 1982
- Label: Warner Home Video
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
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FIREFOX is an entertaining cold war fantasy piloted by actor-director Clint Eastwood. When the Russians develop a Mach 5 jet with thought-controlled weaponry, the free world needs someone to go and steal it from them in order to maintain the balance of power. Mitch Gant (Eastwood) was once a hotshot pilot and speaks fluent Russian, so despite his mental instability (he's suffering from posttraumatic stress as a result of his experiences in Vietnam), he's the man for the job. Gant is really the only character Eastwood has played who doesn't have a problem with authority. His bosses want a job done. They're on the side of right, so he does it. Along the way, he's aided by some Jewish dissidents (including a scientist played by Nigel Hawthorne) who are really a lot more heroic than Gant. Essentially, Eastwood has adapted an espionage thriller by Craig Thomas into a fun action film. The jet itself is, well, neat, and the final dogfight between the two Firefox prototypes is quite thrilling. The effects were produced by John Dykstra's firm, which also worked on STAR WARS, but Eastwood's own down-to-earth sensibility keeps things grounded in some kind of reality.
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Clint Eastwood plays the part of an expert pilot whose mission is to steal a Soviet plane. The jet fighter is a technological wonder possessing secrets that the U.S. military is eager to obtain.
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- Theatrical release: June 18, 1982.
- Shot on location in Vienna, Austria, which subs for Moscow.
- The film had two lavish premieres. One was a benefit in Washington for the USO, chaired by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. The other was a benefit for the Museum of Modern Art at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.
- Fritz Manes, the excecutive producer of the film and a longtime friend and collaborator of Eastwood's, plays the American submarine captain.
- Warren Clarke, who plays Pavel Upenskoy, is perhaps best known for playing Dim, one of Alex's droogs, in Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.
- John Ratzenberger, who later played Cliff Clavin on the popular sitcom CHEERS, plays one of the American soldiers on the submarine.
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The film ends with an editing trick found in several of Eastwood's films. In the last shot of the film, Eastwood's character (in this case, Mitchell Gant flying the Firefox) travels away from the camera, into the distance, and suddenly vanishes from the screen.
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Advertising that surprises, entertains or provokes a reaction is much more likely to be noticed and remembered.

That's certainly not to say these things should be the sole aim of advertising. It's not good enough to be entertaining just for entertainment's sake, or shocking just for shock value.

The surprise, entertainment or provocation needs to serve a purpose – it has to be there to make the benefit of the product and the brand more noticeable and memorable.

This should be a guiding principle behind the development and direction of advertising ideas.

 This is becoming increasingly important as we are bombarded with more advertising and information than ever before, and we are becoming ever more adept at screening out any uninteresting and irrelevant noise.

Sadly, most current advertising falls into the category of dull, irrelevant or uninteresting.

Clients and agencies often agonise over their strategy, but then package it up in bland or formulaic advertising that completely passes the viewer by.

 This means that making your advertising surprising, thought-provoking, interesting or entertaining (in a way that makes the product benefit and brand more noticeable and memorable) is not a stylistic or indulgent choice, as it is so often portrayed.

It is an absolute commercial necessity.

For more pithy challenging of received wisdom, our new book 'How To Make Better Advertising and Advertising Better – The Manifesto for a New Creative Revolution' – is available exclusively at the Design Museum.

Sell! Sell!http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-40572906888196568132016-07-19T11:46:00.000+01:002016-07-19T11:54:34.045+01:00Be Known For Something...
Have you ever looked at the celebrity pages of a newspaper and thought, Why on earth is that person famous? What have they done?

The pointless celebrity is modern phenomenon. Today you can be famous just for being famous.

But the problem for vacuous celebs is that their popularity can wane just as quickly as it rose.

Real fame comes from being known for something.

People like Prince, Bowie, Hendrix, Jay-Z, Adele, Picasso, Damien Hirst, Banksy, Ayrton Senna, Lewis Hamilton, Winston Churchill, Barack Obama, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Orson Welles, Audrey Hepburn - these people were and are famous for a reason.

They are famous for their abilities as musicians, artists, sportsmen, statesmen, scientists and actors.

Their fame isn't fickle, because it's based on what they bring to the world.

It seems to me that, increasingly, marketers and advertising people are happy for their brand to shine briefly into our consciousness like the pointless celeb.

Let's do a funny video, people love that shit - a cute animal or dancing baby, famous puppet or cartoon, or (dare I say it?) a drumming gorilla.

But how about something with a bit of substance that might last longer than tomorrow's freesheet newspaper?

I think people in advertising need to wake up from their lazy views and received wisdom about so-called product parity.

There's a pervading, fashionable notion among advertising people that we are at a point of universal product parity in all categories, where there is no discernible or relevant difference between competing products.

This is often used to make the subsequent argument that there's no useful role for the product in advertising because the only difference is at a brand level.

 But the notion of widespread, complete product parity is an exaggeration popularised by people who would rather not be making advertising about products anyway.

They'd rather make make the dancing baby ad anyway.

But if you mention product benefits or qualities out loud in advertising, people will immediately fire back Hey dude, the USP is dead, you just don't get it, do you?

We need to end this constant confusion of USPs, product differences and relevant qualities.

While we are at a stage where the vast majority of products in most categories can be said to 'work', the extent to which they work – and the quality of how they are made and perform – is still often different at some level.

The fact is, products do have qualities or benefits that are important to the customer.

They are the very reason the customer buys the product in the first place – to perform a task or fill a need.

They don't need to be unique (as in the USP), they just have to be relevant to the customer.

And if they are relevant to the customer, then they are very much worth talking about in advertising.

Let's remember that the customer is the most important person in advertising.

 To be top of mind is extremely important, but the real value is in not just being known, but being known for those qualities that are relevant to the customer.

Be top of mind, but top of mind for a good reason.

Be known for something.

Be famous for something.

All great, successful brands and products are famous for something.

What are you famous for?

For more pithy challenging of received wisdom, our new book 'How To Make Better Advertising and Advertising Better – The Manifesto for a New Creative Revolution' – is available exclusively at the Design Museum.

Sell! Sell!http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-16589719271711785112016-07-06T11:59:00.000+01:002016-07-19T11:05:43.304+01:00Don't Be A Category Clone, Be Distinctive...

Which is your brand?

Something we've observed over the years is that to have the best chance of success, brands should be highly distinctive in their category. This is borne out by Byron Sharp's findings (which you can read in his excellent book How Brands Grow), being distinctive in the category makes it easier for potential customers to notice your brand, remember you, and then recognise you and select you when they come to buy.

But a large number of brands are consistently bad at this when it comes to advertising. For example, at the moment it's barely possible to tell the difference between the advertising of different car manufacturers, or of different spirits brands.

Advertising has become plagued by clichés, category norms, comfortable territory and accepted ways of doing things.

Unfortunately for brands who have fallen victim to this, similarity is the road to obscurity (and a huge waste of marketing budget) as they become lost in the crowd.

Finding happy mediums, familiar territory and compromise might keep people happy in meetings, but it often also strips ideas of their power.

What might seem like a safe choice in the confines of a boardroom will most likely be a waste of money when it's out in the real world.

It's an old cliché, but true, that advertising that feels safe or familiar is actually a quite risky thing to do.

There's no 'safety in numbers' when it comes to advertising. If someone else is doing something similar to what you're doing, or looks or sounds like you, you're both in trouble.

Generating and maintaining a distinctive presence in your category will go a long way towards helping your product be the one selected by the customer.

That means more people buying your stuff, by the way.

For more pithy challenging of received wisdom, our new book 'How To Make Better Advertising and Advertising Better – The Manifesto for a New Creative Revolution' – is available exclusively at the Design Museum.

Sell! Sell!http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-60309704453073777282016-06-27T14:32:00.000+01:002016-06-28T13:14:24.997+01:00Painful Proof That Advertising People Have Lost Touch With The PublicThe events of the last few days - the EU referendum in the UK and the subsequent fall-out - have been an amazing spectacle.

To be in the UK at this time is to be present and aware as history is being made, and to be a spectator and participator as all kind of human behaviour are laid bare in front of us.

I want to avoid as much as possible the central political issue (that's not really a subject for this blog) and focus on something that is – and that is the reaction of people in the advertising and marketing world to the vote to leave the EU.

The reaction of people in the advertising industry to the result was extremely telling.

There was complete shock and much outrage that the vote had gone the way it had. There was disbelief in the result - absolute surprise that so many people had voted 'out'.

And, even more interestingly, a complete disdain and contempt for those people, too.

Through media like facebook and twitter, it became clear that most advertising people were not among the 17½ million people who voted to leave the EU.

And not only that, throughout the day they became increasingly critical and insulting about those people.

They simply could not believe, and could not understand why so many people had voted 'out'. They must all be racist, or stupid, or have been hoodwinked, or fallen for the lies of the leave campaigners, was the overriding response.

This soon led to the demonising of the old, and labelling all of the out voters as some racist underbelly of the country.

It's one thing to disagree with people's views.

Another thing to violently disagree.

Another again to insult people who hold the view.

Another further to be completely taken by surprise that there might be over half of the country who, for whatever reason, hold that view.

But then it's another thing completely to not even attempt to understand why people hold that view.

And this from a group of people who are handsomely paid to supposedly understand the wo/man-in-the-street.

Let's go back a week.

In the run-up to the referendum, it was clear to us that the vote was going to be close. Although the polls were calling a narrow victory for Remain, we weren't convinced. We could see a vote where 'Leave' gets more votes than people were expecting. (Or 'OUT' as it was more often called in the real world).

We felt there was a huge groundswell of dissatisfaction out there.

That, rightly or wrongly, there was a huge amount of people who felt like their views and opinions hadn't been taken seriously, who had real concerns about the country, issues like immigration and its effects, and about the influence of the EU over the UK.

It felt to us like people were underestimating the number of these people – and underestimating their desire to vote in this referendum. And that turnout would be very high amongst those who felt like this, because of the emotion felt about these issues.

This was something that was consistently overlooked by remain campaigners, pundits and political commentators alike during the run-up to the referendum – that for a huge number of people, this was an emotional issue as well as a practical one. And that this was something that existed even before the leave campaigners harnessed it.

Of course none of this is rocket science. It just comes from looking around you at the real world, listening to what people are saying, reading what they say on Facebook, etc. Listening to friends and family on the subject.

But, the overriding reaction of most advertising people to the result seems like further evidence that they are living in their own bubble. A world of people like them, which they struggle to see past.

Worse still, they have so little awareness of the world beyond their bubble, that they are absolutely shocked and stunned when the evidence of its existence stares them in the face, their only reaction is to lash out at it.

One of the most ironic things about the whole affair is the number of planners, traditionally those in the agency tasked primarily with the official role of understanding the consumer, who were on the frontline of the disbelief and insults.

And on top of that, the utter craziness of seeing those people who have been banging on for ages about consumers making emotional decisions and not rational ones, then decrying those 17½ million Leave voters for not carefully analysing the economic ramifications of leaving the EU, and making a choice based on what they feel.

I suspect Alanis Morissette is currently penning a new version of her greatest hit even as I write this.

The problem of advertising having become too much of a polite, middle-class place with not enough diversity has been well documented, not least in our own recently published book [plug: HERE].

Not only is it primarily staffed by similar people from similar backgrounds, who think similar things, but it appears that they are becoming more and more insular, with a diminishing understanding of the real world.

How many of the adfolk of Soho and East London do a weekly big shop at a Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Lidl or Aldi?

I can't imagine it's many. And that's just a flippant example. How many really know the daily lives, worries, concerns, priorities and motivations of normal people?

They are living in their own rarified world. And this is not helping clients.

You can see examples of it all over: adfolk increasingly going on about "Consumers needing brands to have a purpose", or "Consumers having relationships with brands".

Yes, consumers need a brand to have a purpose exactly like they care about whether someone's little Lila or Finn will be able to spend summer in the Dordogne without mummy having any admin headaches.

It is ad-world, rarified nonsense.

It seems very appropriate that, at the same time that half of advertising was sucking champagne from the corporate trough in Cannes, 72.2 percent of the UK – the second highest turnout in a national vote since 1950 – were braving the torrential rain to make their voices heard.

There's no substitute for being from and living in the real world. You can't fake it by doing a research group in a regional chain hotel every few months.

Advertising people have lost touch with the real world.

It's about time we burst their bubble.Sell! Sell!http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-84686991023845632122016-06-23T12:51:00.000+01:002016-06-23T12:52:33.598+01:00Brave New Heights Reached On The Cannes Pinnacle of ExcrementI've been on a self-imposed semi-retirement from criticising creative awards on this this blog.

Not because I've changed my mind, but just because they seem to be getting worse and it appears nothing can stop the rot.

And to be honest, I've got better things to do.

As shit as all creative awards seem to have become, the pinnacle of excrement is the Cannes Lions festival. And still it seems there is little point in criticising even that, because I genuinely believe there is nothing on Earth that would shame the participants.

When you look at what is going on over there, from the work that gets 'awarded', to the incessant rivers of waffle and bullshit, the self-serving forums and back-slapping cronyism, it feels like if people aren't ashamed to be part of that, then nothing anyone could say would affect them in any way.

But then it sinks to such new depths that I feel compelled to briefly pop out of the aforementioned semi-retirement.

In previous years we've seen work (that shall remain nameless) that's clearly awards-glitter-scam win big gongs. But this year has beaten even that. I'm not going to put up the work here, I can't stand it, and I refuse to give it any more oxygen (I'm sure you've seen anyway. I'm sure).

But now two pieces of work, one a scam charity app, and another a piece of offensive, low-grade frat humour, have won awards over there. Just when you think it can't possibly get any worse, it proves you wrong.

I can't think of anything that more accurately represents how shit the ad industry has become than the Cannes Festival.

It is at once the worst of the industry, and its best representation.

If you're over there in any capacity, you're complicit in the utter shameless horror-show of it all.

You're part of the problem.

Sorry.Sell! Sell!http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-69414418096094111182016-06-15T12:27:00.002+01:002016-06-15T12:29:15.424+01:00Do You Remember The Real World?
There are some folk in advertising and marketing who have developed a habit of expecting unrealistic behaviour from people in the real world.

 Ask most marketing or advertising people if they themselves, outside of their professional life, have ever shared brand content, or used a brand hashtag, or got involved in making or editing or uploading their own experiences of a brand, or any of the other things that they often expect customers to do, the answer would be rarely, if at all.

Yet they regularly expect other people to do them.

 Contrary to what appears to be popular belief inside agencies and marketing departments, most people do not want to 'join the conversation' or take part in any interactive, two-way dialogue with brands, even in relatively high-interest categories.

 We all need to remind ourselves to be normal people at work – make judgements based on what we, and other people, are really like.

Always resist the temptation to expect unrealistic behaviour from people.

Agencies try really hard to make their offices unusual, creative, inspiring places.

But make sure your work is fit for the real world.

For more pithy challenging of received wisdom, our new book 'How To Make Better Advertising and Advertising Better – The Manifesto for a New Creative Revolution' – is available exclusively at the Design Museum.

Sell! Sell!http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-39261108228107122402016-06-14T16:01:00.000+01:002016-06-14T16:08:13.939+01:00Prove Yourself WrongOpinion is good for creativity. Having an opinion on the subject/product/situation helps you to come up with an interesting approach, solution or new angle on something. My old advertising mentor would bellow "Get yourself an opinion" at anyone who couldn't express a point of view on whatever we were working on.

I reckon some of the malaise of current advertising is down to a lack of opinion. It seems creatives in most agencies aren't required to have opinions any more. They're just told to execute what it says on the brief. That inevitably leads to bland, mediocre, beige work.

Encouraging creatives to form opinions on the product/problem/situation they're working on, and encouraging them to use those opinions to help form creative ideas will help lead to stronger work, and work with more individuality and humanity.

But on top of this, I think we should always challenge ourselves to prove ourselves wrong. It's easy to form a view or opinion about something early in a project, and stick to it blindly, judging everything by it.

I think it's a lot more difficult and challenging, to constantly challenge our own opinions and views, to try to prove them wrong. I think that's what good clients should do, and good creative directors. Prepare to have your opinions proved wrong. Be prepared to modify or change your opinion.

In science, good scientific method is said to be working hard to prove your theories wrong. This is one of the criticisms of some recent neuroscience – that a scientist will come up with a a great-sounding theory, write their thesis, get a book deal and do the conference circuit – without every really trying to prove themselves wrong. But good science is trying very hard to prove yourself wrong, and encouraging others to do so to.

I think interesting creative ideas can come of out of this method too. You have an opinion on something? Or a view on what will work best? Why not try really hard to do the opposite and make it work? Why not challenge your own assumption and see where that leaves you?

Work hard to prove yourself wrong, and you might just come up with something that surprises you.

"In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof." John Kenneth Galbraith
Sell! Sell!http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-88021123019579664772016-06-09T10:41:00.000+01:002016-06-09T10:42:28.233+01:00We're sorry, Harry KaneA neat piece of creative opportunism from Licor Beirao that surfaced earlier this week. Worth a look.

Sell! Sell!http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-2150762190223383332016-05-18T15:33:00.000+01:002016-05-18T16:05:44.104+01:00Truth In AdvertisingIt seems we've offically reached the point where the ads in the movie Crazy People are better than the ads made by ad agencies. At least the ads in the film are based on some kind of truth, whilst the current output of agencies appears to be the product of delusion, self-importance and a fundamental and sometimes wilful misinterpretation of behavioural science and psychology. Anyway, enjoy the clips, they're still good value...

If you're interested in making advertising that's based in the truth of why people actually buy the products they buy, cast your eyes over our new book How To Make Better Advertising And Advertising Better - available exclusively at the Design Museum.

Or come in for chat sometime.Sell! Sell!http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-22599301844171854292016-05-17T16:14:00.004+01:002016-05-17T16:14:47.625+01:00Do You Really Know Why People Buy?Agencies and marketers need a sense check.

They need to ask themselves if they really know why people buy what they buy.

Usually the reality is that most people just want products that simply meet their needs and do what they're meant to do (some economists call this 'satisficing' – when people choose, they don't always search through the detail of every option available to find the perfect choice).

Most customers don't need or want a brand to have a 'higher purpose' or to stand for something above and beyond the role that the product plays in their lives.

Of course it's a positive thing for brand owners to feel that their products have a useful and worthwhile place in their customers' lives.

But many brands are guilty of vastly overstating and overplaying their role in grand 'brand purposes'.

Who wants to be told how to lead their life by a beer? Or moralised to by a soap manufacturer?

Certainly no one outside of marketing departments and deluded agencies.

"The worst thing about these hyperbolic brand visions is that they lead to equally fantastical and idiotic tactical work." Mark Ritson, Associate Professor of Marketing, Melbourne Business School.
This kind of self-important approach leads to cynical, patronising advertising that has nothing to do with the real reasons we choose the products and services we use.

People aren't fooled by it.

For more pithy challenging of received wisdom, our new book 'How To Make Better Advertising and Advertising Better – The Manifesto for a New Creative Revolution' – is available exclusively at the Design Museum.

Sell! Sell!http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-4335221684815114242016-05-13T11:53:00.000+01:002016-05-13T11:53:46.443+01:00QueenzflipPossibly the best footage of someone really enjoying listening to music whilst driving since Partridge lip-synced his way through Roachford's 'Cuddly Toy' in the opening credits of Alpha Papa.

Make sure you stay with it until 1'49 when the fun level gets dialled up a notch.

Thanks to our good friend Jimmer for bringing the wonderful Queenzflip to our attention.

Sell! Sell!http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-42323181885964901282016-05-12T10:56:00.000+01:002016-05-12T11:03:54.882+01:00Good Beer Advertising – Kronenbourg Alsace-tiansShock, horror – two posts in a quick succession on this blog praising advertising we've seen. Are we getting soft? Or did we just get lucky? We've repeatedly lamented the current state of beer advertising, in fact almost all booze advertising, on these pages – so it's a pleasure to share a new beer ad that is actually good. And also one that's building on what went before it.

Recent Kronenbourg commercials have centred around Alsace and feature Cantona. There was the one about the farmer which attempted to tell a bit of quality story about hop farmers, it felt a little strained but the good execution and Cantona's performance kept it together. With this story about the Alsatians bringing people a nice frothy beer in a moment of crisis it feels like they've hit upon something that they could stick with and run and run. If they stick with this and keep making well-crafted ads they could assume the leading premium-mainstream lager position that Stella used to occupy (before they went mental–Be Legacy, WTF). Let's hope they do.

Cantona gives a great performance. Great opportunities to show people enjoying a lovely, frothy beer in the context of reward and pleasure. Good production values. And great casting – they've avoided the modern cliche of filling the ad full of reallyreallygoodlooking young people.

Hats off.

Sell! Sell!http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-19858034966437604862016-05-09T15:12:00.002+01:002016-05-10T10:55:22.395+01:00Two Good Things For A Monday - One Pretty Good, One GreatIt's Monday and I bring you two good things - well actually one of them is great, but I'm going to make you wait for that.

First is this new bus ad that's going around for Pizza Express, advertising their new.... wait, I don't actually have to tell you what it's advertising - see how that works? Amazing.

Anyway, it's a good example of a bus wrap – and of outdoor in general. I've seen a few of these new Routemaster wraps and they are pretty good, but this is the strongest I've seen so far, it stands out a mile.

The second thing is this amazing recording of outtakes of Orson Welles doing advertising voiceovers. A couple of things here. Just imagine directing one of the world greatest ever actors and directors in a recording session? Also, what an unbelievable voice he has – he brings something amazing to these scripts. Lastly, imagine a version of the ad industry where people are using actors of his calibre to voice their ads. Draws in to stark relief how dumbed down the work has become today. Anyway, that's a thought for another day. For now just enjoy this...

Sell! Sell!http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-87588132204428917382016-05-03T12:22:00.000+01:002016-05-03T12:22:47.556+01:00Are You Irrationally Loyal to the Idea of Loyalty?

Advertising agencies need to remember that, for most of their clients, tangible growth is achieved by getting more people to buy their products, year in, year out.

To best help growth in the long term, agencies and marketers need to end their current fixation with building 'emotional relationships' with so-called loyal customers.

Although this may feel good because you're concentrating on people who theoretically like you, really you're just wasting money.

 This is because a brand's growth potential doesn't come from these fabled loyal customers.

"Sales growth won't come from relentlessly targeting a particular segment of a brand's buyers. Yet this marketing fantasy continues to appear in marketing plans... This fantasy is harming marketing effectiveness." Professor Byron Sharp, How Brands Grow (Oxford University Press).

 Long-term, robust growth is achieved by constantly bringing in new customers and light customers.

Agencies would better serve the interests of their clients by targeting as many users in the category as possible, rather than concentrating on a particular niche group.

Our new book 'How To Make Better Advertising and Advertising Better – The Manifesto for a New Creative Revolution' – is available exclusively at the Design Museum.

Sell! Sell!http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-56763555560245919772016-04-22T11:13:00.000+01:002016-04-22T11:14:01.509+01:00The Attitude Problem
Many advertising and marketing people have a mistaken belief that attitude change causes behaviour change.

But when it comes to consumer products and services, getting people to feel positively about your brand does not mean they'll then buy your product.

 This notion is not only mistaken, it's leading to increasing amounts of vacuous advertising – bland and egocentric 'brand films', or brainless dancing baby or cute animal ads that do nothing but waste money and patronise customers.

 Those advertising folk and marketers obsessed with the idea of people 'loving' their brand need to realise that the most successful way to get someone to love your brand is to get them to buy and use your product or service.

That's because, in reality, behaviour change comes before attitude change – people like the brands they use.

 That means to make most effective use of your advertising, you should stop trying to get people to like your brand, and use it instead to bring people closer to choosing your product.

"We don't get them to try our product by convincing them to love our brand. We get them to love our brand by convincing them to try our product." Bob Hoffman.

Our new book 'How To Make Better Advertising and Advertising Better – The Manifesto for a New Creative Revolution' – is available exclusively at the Design Museum.

Sell! Sell!http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-61108100069267295242016-04-18T18:30:00.001+01:002016-04-18T18:31:11.937+01:00I've Told You A Million Times... Stop Exaggerating*Many advertising and marketing people have unrealistic notions of how people relate to brands.

Some believe their brand is different to other brands – people really do love it. Crazier still are those who expect people to fall in love with their brand before they've even bought or used their product.

This fashionable idea of 'brand love' doesn't reflect the real relationship that most people have with brands. Selecting most products and services is not a massive deal to most people, and certainly not a life-defining moment as sometimes depicted by deluded advertising agencies and 'brand gurus'. The idea of 'emotional relationships' with brands driving buying behaviour has largely been proved to be a myth.

"Most of a brand's customers think and care little about the brand, but the brand manager should care about these people because they represent most of the brand's sales." Professor Byron Sharp, How Brands Grow (Oxford University Press).
Even those customers who repeatedly buy from your brand most likely do so out of simple habit and the product delivering on their needs. Contrary to the moonshine widely peddled by many branding and advertising 'experts', it's not because of some strong emotional bond.

When we exaggerate the role that the brand plays in people's lives, it leads to self-important and phoney advertising. People are smart enough to realise this and know when they're being patronised.

This is an excerpt from our new book 'How To Make Better Advertising and Advertising Better – The Manifesto for a New Creative Revolution' – available exclusively at the Design Museum.

*With apologies to The Young Ones Sell! Sell!http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-64936507474082417612016-04-13T15:24:00.002+01:002016-04-13T15:24:52.198+01:00Truth
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act," George Orwell.

Strong advertising needs to have truth at its heart. Ads are quite rightly regulated to make sure they are honest, but we live in a time when advertisers increasingly appear to be avoiding saying anything of real substance or worth, and this lack of any substance is in itself an act of deceit.

But people know when you're trying to pull the wool over their eyes, and they can see when you're using the old look at the cute animal trick.

 Honest and truthful advertising stands out and hits home harder. Potential customers are far more likely to relate to what you're saying when it has a point and is genuinely relevant to them (and there's a chance it may become that rare advertising that people actually appreciate or find useful).

 Clearly, it's sometimes difficult to find worthwhile and truthful things to say about a product or brand, and it's even harder to distil them into something pithy, memorable or entertaining.

Advertising people have got out of the habit or worse, in some cases, lack the ability or even the will to do it. They either give up too early or fail to even try in the first place. There isn't anything worthwhile to say, so let's just make a funny cat video and hope people like it... appears to be an increasingly common response.

 The ability to seek out and distil honest and worthwhile things to communicate is extremely valuable.

In fact, it's one of the most valuable skills that advertising agencies can bring to business.

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chortle, etc...Sell! Sell!http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-72579309399636557002016-04-06T14:57:00.000+01:002016-04-06T14:57:06.547+01:00What's In It For Them?Sometimes it seems advertisers and marketers need to remind themselves that advertising isn't for them.

Advertising is for the customer.

It is they who ultimately determine whether advertising is good or not – in that they vote with their purses or wallets.

Advertising people and marketers have become too self-obsessed, too inward-looking, too focused on their advertising playing well and feeling good in the boardroom or among their peers.

This often ends up with advertising that is egotistical and centred around what people in the company would like to say about themselves.

The priority should really be how the advertising fares out in the real world.

That means making advertising less self-centred and concentrating more on what the customer will get out of it.

Less this is how we'd like you to think of us.

And more this is what's in it for you.

Our new book 'How To Make Better Advertising and Advertising Better – The Manifesto for a New Creative Revolution' is available exclusively at the Design Museum.Sell! Sell!http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-72605722407658191132016-03-24T13:15:00.000+00:002016-03-24T13:15:10.977+00:00The First Cruyff Turn

The very first Cruyff turn by Johan Cruyff, who sadly passed away today.

From the BBC: Cruyff, who made his name as a forward with Ajax and Barcelona, won the Ballon d'Or three times. He won three consecutive European Cups with Ajax and went on to manage Barcelona to their first European Cup win in 1992. Cruyff helped his country reach the World Cup final in 1974, where they lost to West Germany. In February, Cruyff said he felt he was "2-0 up in a match" against lung cancer and he was "sure I will end up winning". Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Cruyff had double heart bypass surgery in 1991. Barcelona won four consecutive La Liga titles from 1990-91 to 1993-94 under his guidance.

Sell! Sell!http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-35133406973717409752016-03-24T11:43:00.003+00:002016-03-24T11:59:59.045+00:00Skills For Advertising: Maintaining Healthy SkepticismSkepticism is not to be confused with cynicism. And healthy skepticism has nothing to do with optimism or pessimism. Healthy skepticism is a great quality in life, it means you don't take everything at face-value.

Same is true in advertising. Most of the very best people I've met in advertising have a healthy skepticism. The people who, when someone tells them some supposed fact or claim, say 'Really?' and then proceed to investigate further. This road often leads you towards new thinking, or at least uncovering the real problem behind something.

One of the most powerful forces in advertising and marketing over the last few years has been the influence of popular psychology. Famous scientists have published popular books particularly about human behaviour and the way our brains work.

This of course is extremely interesting and relevant to people working in advertising and marketing, given that we are competing day-by-day for a slice of someone's brain.

So any new revelation or theory is devoured and pored-over by ad folk and marketers for how it may help or influence what we do. This is all good so far.

The problems start when people adopt some of these findings wholesale, and base entire advertising and marketing approaches on them. You can see how it happens, because often these books or findings are telling the advertising people what they wanted to hear.

Highly ironically, they are suffering from confirmation bias.

Interestingly, what many observers have noted is that a lot of these finding and theories tally with what a lot of people in advertising have always kind of thought.

This shouldn't come a big surprise to us, as the best advertising people tend to have a strong grasp of 'what makes people tick' – just a basic, human instinct for understanding people.

It's always important for us in advertising and marketing to remember to not take the latest pop science best-seller or exciting study as absolute, dogmatic gospel. Don't just lift it wholesale and base everything on it, just because it might tally with your own desire to do a certain kind of advertising.

It's important because within the scientific community these theories and studies are constantly being questioned and peer-reviewed, and people are attempting to replicate the results (not always successfully).

"The true heroes of science are not the technicians who are able to run an experiment on 50 people and squeeze out statistical significance, a book contract, and a TED talk. Rather, they are the people who refuse to take Yes for an answer, who test out their theories on hard problems and are willing to admit failure."  Andrew Gelman, Professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University.
Whilst scientists are rightly maintaining a healthy, balanced reaction to new findings, it's pretty bonkers that ad people are adopting them wholesale, and basing entire, multimillion pound advertising pushes on them.

It's like advertising people are taking morsels of science and forming religions out them.

So what's the answer? Well that's the interesting bit, isn't it? As Professor Brian Cox said recently (paraphrasing now) we never have 'the answer', we have a set of 'best theories at the moment'.

I reckon the best bet is to read everything you can, arm yourself with all available information, definitely read Byron Sharp's How Brands Grow, for some actual marketing science (if you haven't already), and on top of it all, maintain that healthy skepticism.

And don't forget your basic human understanding of what makes people tick.

This article in Wired by Professor Andrew Gelman, inspired this post, and is well worth a read.

Our book How To Make Better Advertising And Advertising Better – The Manifesto For A New Creative Revolution (alt. title The Most Grandly Named Book In Advertising) is out now, and available exclusively at the Design Museum. It is suitably chock-full of healthy skepticism. Bob Ad Contrarian Hoffman says "It might be just the reset button we all need."
Find out more here.

Sell! Sell!http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-76023073717846897582016-03-18T10:38:00.002+00:002016-03-18T10:38:56.774+00:00It's Time For Advertising To Start Showing The Customer More RespectSo you want to improve advertising? Let's start with the customer.

Advertising agencies and marketers need to stop treating people as if they're stupid, easily manipulated morons. Or empty-headed puppets who can be influenced by solely pulling on their emotional strings.

Much current advertising is created without even a passing thought for what the actual benefit to the customer might be. This shows very little respect for them – acting as if people can be brainwashed into their decision-making, or won over with brainless advertising that exists only for entertainment value.

People are not simply 'consumers' on a chart waiting eagerly to nod along with whatever we say or buy what we put in front of them.

They're real people. They are you, your mum, your best friend.

They're smart – certainly much more intelligent than most current advertising gives them credit for.

Given the choice, they would quite happily do without advertising altogether, but if they have to be faced with it, they don't want to be patronised or treated like idiots.

They want, and deserve, to be treated as reasoning, intelligent beings.

If we want to improve the quality and effectiveness of advertising, we need to start here.

With marketers and ad agencies treating the customer with more respect.

Our new book 'How To Make Better Advertising and Advertising Better – The Manifesto for a New Creative Revolution' is available exclusively at the Design Museum.Sell! Sell!http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-78418000359272710582016-03-11T16:39:00.000+00:002016-03-11T17:00:19.792+00:00How To Make Better Advertising And Advertising Better... Available Now At The Design Museum
Something is rotten in the state of advertising. CEOs and marketers tell us that working with agencies is painful and laborious. Agency people tell us they feel undervalued, overworked and stifled by poor processes. And the poor old punter is left faced with advertising that is at best forgettable, and at worst insulting to the intelligence.

Surely there's a better way?

Yes, fine readers, the day you may or may not have been waiting for is here. Our book is out in the world available to buy.

It has a rather grand title, matched only by it's shamelessly bold subtitle The Manifesto For A New Creative Revolution, and is available exclusively at the Design Museum in London, or online on their shop - here.

We could go on about why you should buy it, but rather than that, we'll let some other people do it for us...

"The ad industry is in an unprecedented state of confusion. While the assertions and pomposity grow majestically, the advertising itself diminishes rapidly. Sadly there is no button we can push that will erase all the arrogance and self-delusion. Fortunately we have this book. It might be just the reset button we all need." Bob Hoffman

"Vic and Andy have come up with a foolproof way to help you discover if you are a good agency. Ask yourself: 'Dare I give this book to all my clients?'" Steve Harrison

"This book is full of common sense. Which is rare, so it's actually full of uncommon sense." Dave Trott

"Just the sort of book you would expect from these guys. If you want advertising with cut-through, that is challenging and with a bit of irreverence thrown in, this is for you." Chris Jessop CEO Expert24
Sell! Sell!http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-70511428754283316222016-03-08T15:21:00.000+00:002016-03-08T15:21:05.097+00:00Revisited: Advertising Needs Good People To Do SomethingI've written before about how advertising people have to take their share of the responsibility for the current poor state of the advertising business.

This has upset quite a few people, I know.

They prefer to lay the blame squarely at the feet of clients or holding companies.

The thing is, I agree with them.

I'm not saying that poor clients (not all clients, but an increasing, poor, majority) and the giant holding companies are not to blame.

My point is simply that as advertising people, we have two clear choices; we can go along with it, or we can fight it.

And going along with it is the same as accepting it.

And accepting it is the same as endorsing it.

And if you're endorsing it, you're part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Because no one else is going to change it for us.

Do you think that suddenly, the holding company board and shareholders are going to go "Oh, okay you're right, this is terrible. We're going to to make all of our companies independent again and put our money elsewhere"?

No, they are not. Not while they can still squeeze a buck out of you they're not, anyway.

And do you think those legions of poor quality clients are going to suddenly say "Goshdarnit, my marketing qualification wasn't worth shit, I should really stop imposing a culture of fear and monetary pressure on my agency, whilst simultaneously listening to their recommendations more and not try to do their jobs for them"?

No. It's not going to happen.

So you are left with those choices above. Either fight and push and bite and scratch for what you think is right.

Or just go along with it.

But, I know, I am realistic. I don't expect everyone in advertising to fight.

There are hundreds of people in advertising who are just happy to be in the room.

People stealing a living from advertising. They have neither talent, nor energy, nor principles. They are happy to just be working in advertising.

I'm not interested in those people, they're lucky to get the entry keycard, and they know it. They're not going to rock the boat.

Change is in the hands of the good people. Smart people, talented people, energetic people, principled people.

These are the people who we need to fight back. To start their own companies, with principles, with standards, and who stand up for the right way to do things.

Creatively-led companies.

So that we hold the best work, the best talent, the best people to ransom.

Accessible only to those clients willing to pay reasonable fees, allow proper amounts of development time and who want to build respectful relationships.

Only then will we see things really start to change.

Because, as Edmund Burke famously said "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

First published on this blog 06.11.2013Sell! Sell!http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169807398234019196.post-5913140407400237072016-03-01T16:04:00.001+00:002016-03-01T16:04:55.179+00:00Revisited: Do You Only Know How To Make Ads?The things that make a print advert work are the same things that make an editorial layout, or piece of printed art strong. The things that make a TV commercial great are the same things that make a TV programme, film or piece of video art great. The crucial difference being that, obviously, the ultimate job of the commercial work is to meet its brief; sell a product, change your opinion about something, etc. But still, the things that make it work in the end are the same craft skills that make other things strong in that media.

The problem comes when you forget this, and you think about making adverts. People tend to do things to adverts that they wouldn't do to an editorial piece of design, or to a film. But unfortunately ads don't get processed differently by people. Either it's good or it isn't good. There are no excuses just because it's an ad. But still, people try to cram in way too much information, over-the-top branding, social media logos, and other guff, because it's an ad.

Sometimes it makes you think that people, clients and agency alike, have forgotten how to make interesting things that also happen to be great ads, and they only know how to make things that look and sound like adverts.

First Published on this blog 04.09.12
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Report: Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt Engagement Staged
Boobs. Nose. Bikini photos. Engagement.
Looks like everything about Heidi Montag is fake!
Boobs. Nose. Bikini photos. Engagement.
Looks like everything about Heidi Montag is fake!
It was only a matter of time.
Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, whose engagement has been public for all of 18 hours or so, were amazingly spotted frolicking in a swimming pool and acting all cute for the cameras.
Spencer Pratt has promised to honor, to have and to hold, to love and to cherish a pair of fake boobs for as long as they both shall live.
And if Heidi Montag wants to stick around, too, so be it.
Presumably, like Laguna Beach graduate Talan Torriero and Nicole Scherzinger, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag enjoy riding one another.
Apparently, though, they're enjoying another ride even more - the one that makes them household names despite their lack of redeeming qualities.
If you know anything about Spencer Pratt, you know he has never been one to shy away from a PR-generating, attention-grabbing scheme.
It's not surprising, then, that the dirtbag villain from The Hills has joined the lame Free Paris bandwagon with a "Free Paris" MySpace page.
Frolicking in the surf.
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At our weekly staff meeting this morning, the celebrity gossip writers at The Hollywood Gossip collectively decided that we don't ridicule Kevin Federline enough.
That may seem hard to believe, but since Britney Spears went bonkers, we've been forced to laud K-Fed's efforts as a father and focus on what a decent fellow he really is at heart.
With the exception of a former colleague who defrauded its writing staff out of at least $20,000, there's no one that enrages The Hollywood Gossip more than Spencer Pratt.
The rumor that The Hills star Lauren Conrad and her ex-beau, Jason Wahler, filmed a secret sex tape that was to be released to the public took the celebrity gossip world by storm earlier this month.
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In my view, we need to get the heck outa there. These deaths are for nothing.
I Would not go or send a son or daughter over there to possibly get killed.
Those guys don't like us and never will. If they need to fight and kill
someone let them do it to themselves.
Supposedly, we're there to help them implement democracy. They don't want democracy. They are too wrapped up in Islam and Shariah and have been for more than two thousand years.
And the same goes for Iraq.
Furthermore, we need to refuse any immigration from these countries and all other countries around the world where Islam is predominant. If we don't we will eventually be sorry. They can destroy from within as we can see in many countries in the Mideast. And they are in no hurry.
We need to wise up. Will we? Not with our current occupant in the White House.
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It appears that the Afghans do not honor nor appreciate the help our U S govt is
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This problem was not addressed (Charlie Rose tried to help) over a decade ago, were they supplied with the arms that are killing our troops? Where and when does it all stop? What is the answer?
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An epic story is about to unfold, telling of a magical time where the forces of darkness pervade, reports Judith Ritchie.
Passage of time
To travel back to the place where I grew up is to realise again how far removed we are from the natural world.
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