Archive for May 13th, 2008
Communication
Two strange stories from the UK: First, the housing minister accidentally had her notes for today’s cabinet meeting photographed, revealing the UK government’s deepest fears about the housing market. Next, the communities minister (?) happened to show an e-mail detailing Gordon Brown’s possible participation in a reality show.
I’ve read about a similar story involving a Danish trade union negotiator in an earlier age, but this comes from the party that introduced the Master Spindoctor to the world. Surely these politicians should be drilled in the physical handling of political information.
As I said: This puzzles me.
PS: Note how well you can read the text in the housing minister’s notes on this blow-up. Scary, huh?
A Minor Marketing Issue
Daily Telegraph brings us the headline of the day:
Microsoft unveils ‘Google Earth’ for space
The wailing sound you hear is from Microsoft’s marketing department.
links for 2008-05-13
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There seems to be an increasingly wide gulf internationally between those who are supportive of women in government … and those who think that the very idea of women bothering their pretty little heads with such matters as foreign policy is completely b
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They key to these books is the serialisation. They turn a book into a news story. And they provide the real money behind the mega-deal advances.