By Ollie Gayler @OllieGayler As a career finale, The Wind Rises is suitably poignant. Its message is not an overt warning as in Princess Mononoke. Its fantasy is more subtle and human than that of Spirited Away and is not presented in opposition to reality, but rather woven into the ...
By Sara Davison The harsh reality is that the UK has the highest rate of divorce in Europe with 42% of first marriages ending in divorce. This fact is not to be taken lightly as it is reported to be the 2nd most traumatic life experience after death of a loved ...
By Dan Ebanks Behavioural economics has been the emerging ‘movement’ within the economics discipline for quite a few years, entering the public consciousness in 2008 with the publication of Thaler and Sunstein’s now omnipresent ‘Nudge’. However, Tim Adams suggested, in his article in the Guardian (May 31st 2014), that ...
Mark Russell, CEO of Optimus Performance Marketing- http://uk.optimus-pm.com/ The commercial potential of blogging is, in my opinion, in its infancy. The barriers of entry to the bloggersphere are very low, resulting in so many bloggers entering the arena. Of course, celebrity and other high profile bloggers have an advantage when ...
By Guy Dorrell @GuyDorrellEsq Steve Jobs never had much of a taste for alcohol, the few references that can be found of him drinking refer to the very occasional glass of wine. But while beer may not have had an effect upon him, he had a profound effect upon it. ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor “It all began as an inspired accident”, says Duncan James, a designer for a leading Clerkenwell-based advertising agency. “Doodling is a creative sanctuary for all graphic artists, but during one particularly tedious client briefing, something fascinating started to happen. A cartoon character, began to emerge ...
By Magnus Alm, CMO, Palringo There are more than 1,000,000 apps in the App Store and the same goes for Google PLAY. Needless to say, there is a discoverability issue for developers. A few lucky ones are able to get that global hit which turns into a viral phenomenon, ...
By Fiona Kirk In addition to ensuring that our diet is bursting with goodness and we factor regular exercise into our ever-more-hectic lifestyles to give us the best possible opportunity of living a long and healthy life, is our vitamin D status another challenge we have to take on board? ...
From Neon Nettle Have you ever wondered what a private party with 50 Cent might cost, or perhaps a bash with Bruce Springsteen? A leaked list from a popular booking agency has revealed artist rates suggested by agents per-show, with acts from $1,000 to over $1 million a gig exposed. The prices are not ...