Following on my annual theme here are my picks for the best films of the past year…
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Juno
Eagle Eye
Be Kind, Rewind
There Will Be Blood
Persepolis
No Country For Old Men
In Bruges
The Happening (yes I liked it!)
There are plenty of cracking films I haven’t seen yet, judging by this list, so I need to get on the case. The films I really want to see are…
Gomorrah
Man On Wire
Burn After Reading
Donkey Punch
The Strangers
Linking to this amusing post on Iain Dale’s blog. I noticed also that John Lewis is selling upside down Christmas trees, weird I say. Perhaps there is some correlation between that and Labour’s reversal of fortunes in the opinion polls?
The Tories have also created a Gordon Brown saviour of the world ringtone. Download today!
The Future of Politics report from Orange. Kudos to Iain Dale for the highlight.
Last.fm, my music discovery site of choice, has revealed what its users have liked in 2008. The system seems somewhat flawed as the best album of the year goes to Coldplay as do six of the top songs, but as a band it is nowhere to be seen in the top artists.
Now my choices for the best music of 2008 are as follows…this is what I’ve listened to with the most pleasure.
Neon Neon – Stainless Steel
Kings of Leon – Only By The Night
808s and Heartbreak – Kanye West
Juno OST
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
Laura Marling – Alas, I Cannot Swim
Razorlight – Slipway Fires
Esteemed PR folk – Ged Carroll and Jonathan Hopkins – asked me to join in on a meme for providing advice on not-very-technical things that every PR person should know. So here goes…
Every PR person should realise that a life is now one big RSS feed, and this also goes for the brands we represent. Web communications is moving towards a news feed of information, thanks to the likes of Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook. Consumer behaviour is at the heart of driving this so my advice would be for each PR person to try to understand this, and drive communications that fit within this trend.
Ged also invited me to another meme, this time on cheap to free online things you can do to keep PR clients happy. Linking to the above suggestion, we need to make sure that clients has a visible online lifestream. The cost attached to this is minimal, and the benefit most wonderful.
Twitter
FriendFeed
