by Tom Wake | Oct 26, 2016 | Nick's Blog
The cat fight is on! An article in The Times at the end of September declared: ‘Angry bloggers stand up for fashion that’s not in Vogue’. It was about how the old guard of the fashion publishing industry – the Vogue magazine brigade as well as the Patsy and Edwina PR...
by Tom Wake | Oct 19, 2016 | Nick's Blog
I recently made a confession about my butterfly mind and how I was trying to overcome online distractions by using a plastic tomato. Of course, it’s highly likely you DIDN’T read it. Chances are you were deluged by emails, texts, calls, pop-ups, tweets, Facebook...
by Tom Wake | Oct 11, 2016 | Nick's Blog
The first time I read that quote by futurologist Kevin Kelly, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up and my skin tingled! In a world where the news is full of negative stories of war, corruption, greed and the failure of humans to get along with each other…...
by Tom Wake | Aug 26, 2016 | Nick's Blog
After years of poor sales and an executive scandal involving rent boys and crystal meth, the Co-op have come up with a new logo to herald their rebirth.Except it’s not new. It’s the opposite of new. It’s old and not in a warm and fuzzy-felt nostalgic way. Old as in...
by Tom Wake | Aug 16, 2016 | Nick's Blog
Prepare yourself…What I’m about to reveal is one of the most shocking and outrageous things you’ll ever read.Seriously. It’s so shocking it’ll disgust you. And it’s this… (Apologies in advance.) … I love clickbait! Yes. There. I said it. Disappointed? Well, before you...
by Tom Wake | Aug 11, 2016 | Nick's Blog
Last week I went to Hastings to visit my friend Gareth. He’s a copywriter, blogger, author, poet, performer and sometime contributor to Digital Upstart. He knows a thing or two about getting noticed, as you’re about to see. The idea was that we were going to talk...