Friday, 5 February 2010

Demon Sheep running for Senator in California

Fabulously mad video from Carly Fiorina (ex Chief Exec of HP) accusing her Republican rival for the Senatorial nomination in Californian of being a devil sheep.

 

 

I'm lost for words at how good this is.

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Thursday, 21 January 2010

Blue Rubicon visits Facebook

How good is the Taliban internal communications department?

I ask because they have issued a code of conduct for their members.

As anyone in internal communications will tell you - it's getting people to read and internalise this sort of guidance that's difficult.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/world/asia/21taliban.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th

From the New York Times:

The effort to change the Taliban’s image began in earnest last May when Mullah Omar disseminated his new code of conduct. The New York Times obtained a copy of the document through a Taliban spokesman. A version of the new code was authenticated last summer by NATO intelligence after a copy was seized during a raid and its contents corroborated using human intelligence, according to a senior NATO intelligence official.

The version sent to The Times is a 69-point document ranging from how to treat local people, how to treat prisoners, what to do with captured enemy equipment and when to execute captives. Much of the document deals with the Taliban chain of command and limits the decisions that field commanders can make on their own. The document exhorts insurgents to live and work in harmony with local people.

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Thursday, 7 January 2010

London Data Store goes live

The GLA have released lots of data for people to mash up and use as they please. From first look there's interesting data on alcohol related admissions to hospital, fires and lots of useful crime data.

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Tuesday, 8 December 2009

Google goggles

Lots of ideas spring to mind about how to use this.

Most obviously while out shopping to do price comparisons.

http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/

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Why the Australians are great communicators

Spotted by my colleague Karin Robinson via my ex colleague Mark Pack.


'It's buggered mate' is the name of an Australian version of Fix My Street.


Just the same concept - but even better communicated.

 

http://its-buggered-mate.apps.lpmodules.com/

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Thursday, 5 November 2009

A PR triumph that has gone un-noticed

TfL’s abolition of the Hammersmith & City line.

 

They’ve merged it with the Circle line - which easily could have been described by opponents as ‘abolishing a tube line’ – which was in fact why it hadn’t been done for decades when it had been considered.

 

TfL’s confident framing of the debate has meant that almost all the focus has been on the positives.

 

http://londonist.com/2009/11/circle_line_uncircling_set_for_dece.php

 

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