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CommonCraft's latest opus:

My blogging desk:

This morning, Iain asked in a post, about the desks we blog at.

This is mine.

Wanted to get it posted early as I'm out most of the day, but will post fuller report later.

The shot below is demonstrates the power of cropping, my desk area is in a mass of wires, papers, files and boxes etc, but the good old crop tool comes to the rescue.

Good rankings? Search me:

Brian at 'All for you' had an interesting view today about a post I wrote earlier this week.

I wrote about YouTube dusting SuperBowl with the Dove campaign. (Giving a shout out to AdAge where I saw the story originally.)

I'm happy, (or should that read smug) to report, Google gave our post on a post a higher ranking than the original.

Who says plagiarism doesn't pay?

(Or as a venerable old Creative Director said to me years ago: 'It's better to come up with a good second-hand idea, than a crap original one.")

Sweet.

No Man's Blog: YouTube trends report #2

More good stuff from planner Asi Sharabi.

This is his second YouTube metrics report.

Finding this bloke's blog recently has been an absolute delight.

The pdf of his cv on his blog, is yet another example of why some planners make creatives nervous and other creatives envious.

Why? Because many planners are creatives.

And as David Abbott said years ago, something to the effect: 'Creatives in our agency do call the shots. It's just that not all of our creatives work in the creative department.'

Amen to that Mr Abbott.

Link: No Man's Blog: YouTube trends report #2.

BloggerCon IV:

There's some good coverage of BloggerCon IV here. Including MP3's of the sessions and transcripts of everything. For newbies like us the session about Blogging and Podcasting tools, do's and don'ts was interesting, and the attendee list had lots of the Blogosphere's (did I really use the word Blogosphere?), biggest stars. There's also a wiki. (Are there too many links for one short post?)

Mike loves e-luv:

This is e-luv a first time novel from Dave Roberts, a pal of mine in New Zealand.

Before I tell you to go out and buy the book; a bit of background:

20 years ago Dave and I were trainee copywriters in a somewhat grim and grimey Northern Ad Agency. One day, a bullying account handler came in and had a heated discussion about a brief he'd put in. Dave said it was misleading and certainly not honest, legal, decent and truthful. The suit told him to shut the chuff up and just bloody well write the ad based on the brief, and do as he was being told. (The implication to the young boy being; He'd better just do as he was told, if he wanted to stay on at the agency as a writer.) They say revenge is better served cold, so Dave wrote the ad, and, once it appeared in the newspaper, he cut it out and wrote a letter of complaint about it to the Advertising Standards Authority. To my knowledge, the only time a copywriter has complained to the authorities about his own ad. Genius. And from that day on our friendship was set in stone.
Anyway. Dave now lives in New Zealand and writes novels, or more accurately has written 'a' novel. Called e-luv it charts the adventures of a housebound man as he 'romps' his way through the chat rooms of the early Internet. It's funny, sad, a bit naughty and in so many respects true, true, true.

I'll be writing more about the book and how this first time is doing over the next few weeks.

In fact here at DigitalAgency, we thought it might be a good idea to experiment with the tools and opportunities afforded by web 2.0 to help Dave spread the word about his book. So we're going to explore some online marketing opportunies. Maybe on MySpace and SecondLife.

Here's a link to e-luv on Amazon.

(Disclosure: DigitalAgency get a name check in the book for providing the struggling new author with a computer to write the thing in its earliest days. Aren't we sweet.)