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Ordered Groceries (Tesco Online), Ordered Case of Wine (Virgin Wines), Planned PhD and Literature Review writing (StackExchange) Read more papers (Mendeley) Managed some Investments (Zopa) As I was walking back from our kitchen in the office, I realised that that ’lift coffee cup, walk to kitchen, make coffee cup, return to desk’ was the most inefficient part of my working day; I can even justify writing this post as vaguely productive as I’m waiting for a download to complete… ...

I cant for the life of me remember who it was who pointed this out on Twitter, either @cimota or @stuartgibson. Jesse Schell , Author, Educator, Game Developer, Ex-imagineer, Futurist, spendshalf of this video deliberating over the unexpected rise and rise of facebook. The last half is what I found really interesting; Jesse eulogises on his image of points-based future, in line with Lee Sheldon’s High School XP Grade replacements. If any of these predictions come true, I expect it’s going to be a very interesting decade for advertisers. ...

The Gifford Children’s Choir performs “Still Alive” by Jonathan Coulton. I freaking love this song, and there’s something reassuring that in years to come kids will be singing songs from video games about science instead of nursery rhymes about war and disease, and violent chants. ...

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So, I was going to do a complete walkthrough for people interested in using Google Adwords for advertising, and its something I was really looking forward to writing. I would not normally have cared to do such a thing because I’m cheap, but Google sent me out a £75 voucher in January. (As Always) there was an issue; Google’s coupons are rendered useless if you have ever accessed Adwords before (longer than 14 days ago). ...

‘Social Media’ has been lauded as the be-all and end all of the future of marketing, advertising, society, and general human decency. There is no doubt that Social Media has taken over our connected lives. And while I don’t doubt this, I often feel that this is taken as a sign that we can abandon the so called ‘old-school’ of marketing and advertising (In this case ‘Old-School’ includes the Web 1.0 practise of advertising on Search and Comparison sites). ...