Thanks for that photo below Philip, here’s my revenge!!! In my defence, I had only had 4 hours sleep due to the fear of missing the alarm.

We had a great journey over on SeaFrance and spent a cracking day in Wimereux, a beautiful little seaside town about 20 minutes outside Calais. Almost missed the return ferry, turning up at Calais 10 minutes before departure…but still got on (wouldn’t advise doing this as we were a tad stressed hurtling up the motorway!) Plus we clearly looked a bit on edge as we were pulled over by security twice between passport control and the ship!! Great day trip though and would highly recommend it.

Fiona & Katy, originally uploaded by piehead.

dedication to the cause, part 5. Joint t7F London and AW Media research trip aboard SeaFrance to Calais. A very jolly day with a number of top ‘incidents’ -however the 6am train that kicked it all off was not that welcome by all.

Oh the joys of analytics! while the new Googletrends has invaluable use for measuring effectiveness of your campaign it also is a fab way of livening up a dull Wednesday.

Witness this screen shot showing an alarming drop in Youporn visitors over the Christmas holiday – The workers of the world (well loads of: Americas, Germans, Italians and a few Brits) obviously prefer there porn during office hours rather than interrupting carols round the log fire.
Note also the dip at Easter and ’schools effect’ in the first two weeks of September.

A side note is that youporn** appears to be one of the few web2.0 adult sites – notwithstanding its gratuitous use of reflections.
(**so I am told by our hard working researchers on the subject- Craig & Nick from AW Media )

This is a neat idea, frustrated author gives book away to gain reviews. There is a linking blog HERE
I have seen ‘pass-it-on’ type promotions before but this seems much more of a personal journey for the author – all the more real for it. Book seen just of Bloomsbury Square by the way.

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Last night saw the final of the Shelf Awards, Gary Sharpen’s idea to promote the best students into the limelight. Major Players did the business with making it happen, as well as stumping up the bar tab for the finals! The winners Cass Fergusan & Chris McKee (c.mckee86@gmail.com & cassferguson@hotmail.com) should be watched with care they are going to be something in the not to distant future. I also really liked Laura Evans and Harry Stanfords Babybell sculptures idea. Pictures HERE