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		<title>A Guilty Pleasure that I don&#8217;t have to feel so guilty about &#8211; how &#8220;talent show&#8221; TV might be getting a little less grubby</title>
		<link>http://electricginger.com/2012/01/24/a-guilty-pleasure-that-i-dont-have-to-feel-so-guilty-about-how-talent-show-tv-might-be-getting-a-little-less-grubby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to come out of the closet and admit to what you&#8217;ve probably all suspected. I&#8217;ve long been a secret devoted fan of the talent show concept. Ever since my little sister&#8217;s childhood friend sang his stuttering heart out on the original Pop Idol (what did happen to Gareth Gates) I&#8217;ve been a little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electricginger.com&amp;blog=12744860&amp;post=382&amp;subd=electricginger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The shame, a John Lewis TV advert made me cry!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>electricginger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just saw the new John Lewis ad and I was all ready to be cynical and sarcastic about it, but I just can&#8217;t. It is truly lovely work and it got me all choked up &#8211; at my desk dammit! A first class representation of the industry I work in, thankyou Adam and Eve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electricginger.com&amp;blog=12744860&amp;post=374&amp;subd=electricginger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh X-factor, what has happened to you?</title>
		<link>http://electricginger.com/2011/11/09/x-factor-frankie-cocozza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>electricginger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to write a post about the demise of X-factor and the latest news on Frankie Cokenozza (Thankyou The Sun) but then I read this article on Daily Mash and realised that they had said everything I wanted to say but more eloquently than I ever could &#8211; so enjoy! Filed under: advertising, social [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electricginger.com&amp;blog=12744860&amp;post=362&amp;subd=electricginger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cringe-worthy boy-band actually makes for a half decent ad!</title>
		<link>http://electricginger.com/2011/10/26/sustainable-farming-delivers-sustainable-advertising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>electricginger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little bit late with this post, but I wanted to comment briefly on the recent Yeo Valley Campaign that launched a couple of weeks back. For the second year in a row Yeo Valley &#8220;released&#8221; an epic musical number in the first break of the first live X-factor. For those of you who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electricginger.com&amp;blog=12744860&amp;post=356&amp;subd=electricginger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Science in Business</title>
		<link>http://electricginger.com/2011/09/29/bad-science-in-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Summer I read Ben Goldacre&#8217;s Bad Science and I&#8217;ve been a bit of a disciple ever since &#8211; for those of you who haven&#8217;t had the pleasure there is a great 20 minute TED talk right here that is a nice introduction to his philosophy. He has 3 key principles for spotting &#8220;Bad Science&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electricginger.com&amp;blog=12744860&amp;post=338&amp;subd=electricginger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Communications vs Media Exploitation &#8211; a Manifesto</title>
		<link>http://electricginger.com/2011/07/26/sustainable-communications-vs-media-exploitation-a-manifesto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working in media and communications strategy for over 11 years now and I&#8217;ve been writing this blog for about 3 or 4 years on and off and I&#8217;ve never thought to write a manifesto; Something that puts in writing the basic principles of what I believe to be best practice in our industry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electricginger.com&amp;blog=12744860&amp;post=317&amp;subd=electricginger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In #myextrahour I&#8217;ll disect this new twitter campaign</title>
		<link>http://electricginger.com/2011/06/22/in-myextrahour-ill-disect-this-new-twitter-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I returned from new York last Sunday to discover this campaign from Europcar had cropped up all over London. For those of you not in London, the basic premise is that Europcar&#8217;s new service &#8220;FreeDeliver&#8221; will save you time, essentially giving you an extra hour in your day to do with as you will. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electricginger.com&amp;blog=12744860&amp;post=308&amp;subd=electricginger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>People Power 3 &#8211; someone who actually knows what they are talking about</title>
		<link>http://electricginger.com/2011/05/25/people-power-3-someone-who-actually-knows-what-they-are-talking-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 14:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, this is the last from me on this, but I just found this blog post from an actual lawyer who might just know what he is talking about and it seems to support the assumptions I have been making in previous posts &#8220;In general, an injunction made against a defendant does not affect a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electricginger.com&amp;blog=12744860&amp;post=303&amp;subd=electricginger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>People Power 2</title>
		<link>http://electricginger.com/2011/05/25/people-power-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 10:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you might be able to tell from the last post, I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time thinking about this, and it is impossible to get away from. My understand of the legal side of this has clarified further in the past 24 hours, particularly after reading the following article: Revealed: The four celebrities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electricginger.com&amp;blog=12744860&amp;post=293&amp;subd=electricginger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>People Power vs Paper Power</title>
		<link>http://electricginger.com/2011/05/24/people-power-vs-paper-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 17:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wanting to write a blog-post on the crazy snowballing story that is the &#8220;premiership footballer and Big Brother &#8220;star&#8221;" story for a while now, but each time I try to start a new development comes along that forces me to start again, frankly at this point I&#8217;ve decided to follow the example of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electricginger.com&amp;blog=12744860&amp;post=280&amp;subd=electricginger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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