Strumpette quits

So, Strumpette is calling it a day. Sometimes vindictive, always incisive, her vitriolic love/hate relationship with the US PR machine has been constantly entertaining.

Now... I wonder if the decision was anything to do with her recent post (or was it a Facebook update?) saying she was thinking about working in the UK...

Identity theft for beginners

Poor old Georgia Horsley, or Miss England as many people may know her. Some pour soul has put up a fake MySpace page for her. And, according to Sky News, she knows this because:

"For a start, the background music was 50 Cent, whereas mine would be a lot more girly."

And

"It is scary to think that someone has stolen my ID. They have made me come across a bit thick and a bit of a tart. I went on to the site and thought 'this isn't my MySpace account'.

I wonder if (and here I should explain a bit of professional competitive interest) Fleishman Hillard (a rival FH I suppose?) know about this story? If they did, and they persuaded Sky to run it to raise awareness of "National Identity Fraud Prevention Week" then hats off to them.

In fact, hats off to them anyway, if (as I suspect) they were involved in encouraging the All-Party Group on Identity Fraud to call for hard-hitting publicity campaign on social networks to highlight the issues involved.

But, if FH aren't aware of the Georgia Horsley story, then what an amazing co-incidence... The two are just waiting to be added together to make a fantastic campaign. And Georgia Horsley is much more appealing to the eye than their sub-Cholmondley-Warner viral YouTube film (below), which I think is truly woeful - as a recent (now deleted?!) comment said.

If you're going to target the MySpace generation then highlighting a fake MySpace page is much closer to the mark than a fake black and white infomercial.

Princess Diana - Deja vu

Ever feel like you're in a time bubble? I'm just at the bit in the Campbell Diaries (which I'm really enjoying, despite slightly trying not to) when Princess Diana died in August 1997. He writes a fascinating and vivid account of things.

Except now the whole event is being re-visited over and over in the British media as part of the inquest - I'm bored already. I was never a fan of the mass-media grief it generated at the time. I'm even less of a fan of it now.