Digital Papa

As an industry, PR has fallen into the worst trap of all: we've started to believe our own bullshit. The spinners are swallowing their own fucking spin. I used to thrive on it, used to get high from...

The first time I experienced death was when my Zaidi (Yiddish for Grand Father) passed away in 1992: it was crushing. I still miss him, and still cry over his loss nearly 20 years later. This may sound...

Mitch Joel, over on his Six Pixels of Separation blog talks about having the passion to hunt for success. Gary Vaynerchuk also talks about that gnawing sense of ambition. I know in myself that I am...

I can't sleep. Almost each night between 2 am and 4 am I lie awake. I can't fucking sleep because there are voices in my head. I can't sleep because Chris Brogan, Jason Falls and Gary Vaynerchuk won...

via youtube.com Ever pictured David Beckham as the quintessential Geek? No? Me neither. My wife thinks he's a little too good looking to earn that title. Yet, besides Darth Vader, he is the star in...

Even though it's so 90s, I still love Seinfeld. One of my favourite lines from the show is George Costanza's break up throw away: "It's not you, it's me". The occassion when the line is used on him...

I recently had an interesting chat with a contact about where their organisation needs to go in its overall communication strategy and one point that came up time and time again is that this particular...

via youtube.com "If you for a second, even if it's half a second, don't believe in what you are doing , whether it's your personal brand or the product you represent, you need to get out now."  ...