Archive for May, 2009

There you go … now I’ve blogged about it too.
But frankly, this is all it deserves.

Sometime last year, Jo White (aka @mediamum) wrote a series of tweets describing an object called a Snuggie.
If you are disinclined to follow the link it’s a fleecy blanket … with arms. And it has a “so bad, it’s good” advertorial I’ve embedded below.
There’s also a parody video.
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I’ve written several times before that I try not to attend real-world press events. They are nearly always overly-long and contain too much marketing-speak, so are not often particularly good uses of my time.
I’ve been thinking about why, and I think there are some hints in the decline of newspapers.
The thing about newspapers is that [...]