Archive for January, 2008

Political brand values

January 9, 2008

I wonder if Barack Obama’s people have caught this video of a US reporter for the UK based Guardian newspaper trying to interview the anointed one’s campaign volunteers. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Here we have ‘the next Kennedy’ lighting people up with the sort of enthusiasm for the political process that I [...]

C’mon Allan’s, c’mon

January 7, 2008

As a long time amateur musician, I have often had cause to notice the lousy levels of service found in musical equipment stores.  When I was a young ‘stratling’ these places were plain intimidating; populated as they were by rock star look-a-likes who seemed to feel customers were simply there to practise sneering at.Things have [...]