Month: December 2010
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Product placement comes to UK TV and radio
Broadcast industry regulator Ofcom confirmed this week that product placement – paid-for references for products and services – will be allowed in UK TV programmes for the first time from next February. […] Ofcom has today [December 20] published the…
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My Blackberry is not working
Harry Enfield and Ronnie Corbett – two veterans of British comedy – show how they’re still at the top of their game. Excellent parody of today’s tech brands. More sketches at The One Ronnie.
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The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #578: December 20, 2010
Content summary: Six years ago, we did our first FIR recording; FIR Live on Deepwater Horizon communications is posted; a question for listeners: should we keep doing FIR Live?; no report this week from Michael Netzley in Singapore; FIR Friendfeed…
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Sanofi-Aventis employees really up in the air
Did you see Up in the Air, the 2009 comedy-drama starring George Clooney who plays a corporate downsizer who travels around America doing layoff interviews? He delivered wholesale bad news face-to-face on behalf of companies unwilling to do it themselves…