Welcome to the June 2020 edition of the DinoSaw – 30 interesting, innovative, mostly tech, advertising-leaning things that caught my eye this month (literally, what Dino saw), compiled into a handy PDF with notes and...
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Dinosaw May 2020
Welcome to the May 2020 edition of the DinoSaw – 30 interesting, innovative, mostly tech, advertising-leaning things that caught my eye this month (literally, what Dino saw), compiled into a handy PDF with notes and...
Photos of Burbidge’s Past
Below are 3 photographs recently scanned from glass negatives by my father Paul Burbidge as part of an ongoing and fascinating journey to document family and relatives from generations past. These photos are of my great...
Teams tone tune
You know when you hear the Microsoft Teams dial tone and your mind adds layers? Had a few spare hours last night and made this nonsense… Shout out to my new bestest discovery, EDM Support Network on Soundcloud for...
Dinosaw March 2020
Welcome to the March 2020 edition of the DinoSaw – 30 interesting, innovative, mostly tech, advertising-leaning things that caught my eye this month (literally, what Dino saw), compiled into a handy PDF with notes and...
Dinosaw February 2020
Welcome to the February 2020 edition of the DinoSaw – 30 interesting, innovative, mostly tech, advertising-leaning things that caught my eye this month (literally, what Dino saw), compiled into a handy PDF with notes...
Car MOT / TAX / Insurance reminder in EXCEL
We have a few vehicles at home. My wife uses one for work, I commute on a motorbike and have a bike for (rare) sunny days. If you’re anything like me, remembering when to tax, MOT or insure each vehicle is a right...
DinoSaw January 2020
Welcome to the January 2020edition of the DinoSaw – 30 interesting, innovative, mostly tech, advertising-leaning things that caught my eye this month (literally, what Dino saw), compiled into a handy PDF with notes and...
DinoSaw September 2019
Welcome to the September 2019 edition of the DinoSaw – 30 interesting, innovative, mostly tech, advertising-leaning things that caught my eye this month (literally, what Dino saw), compiled into a handy PDF with notes...
DinoSaw August 2019
Welcome to the August 2019 edition of the DinoSaw – 30 interesting, innovative, mostly tech, advertising-leaning things that caught my eye this month (literally, what Dino saw), compiled into a handy PDF with notes and...
DinoSaw July 2019
Welcome to the July 2019 edition of the DinoSaw – 30 interesting, innovative, mostly tech, advertising-leaning things that caught my eye this month (literally, what Dino saw), compiled into a handy PDF with notes and...
DinoSaw June 2019
Welcome to the June 2019 edition of the DinoSaw – 30 interesting, innovative, mostly tech, advertising-leaning things that caught my eye this month (literally, what Dino saw), compiled into a handy PDF with notes and...
DinoDump May 2019
Welcome to the May 2019 edition of the DinoSaw – 30 interesting, innovative, mostly tech, advertising-leaning things that caught my eye this month, compiled into a handy PDF with notes and links. Here’s a taster of what...
DinoSaw Mar 2019
Welcome to the March 2019 edition of the DinoSaw – 30 interesting, innovative, mostly tech, advertising-leaning things that caught my eye this month, compiled into a handy PDF with notes and links. Here’s a taster of...
DinoSaw Feb 2019
Welcome to the February 2019 edition of the DinoSaw – 30 interesting, innovative, mostly tech, advertising-leaning things that caught my eye this month, compiled into a handy PDF with notes and links. Here’s a...
DinoSaw Jan 2019
If you’re new to the world of DinoSaws, they are simply 30 or so interesting, innovative, mostly tech or advertising-leaning things that caught my eye each month, compiled into a handy PDF with notes and links...
10 year old DinoDump from 2009
It turns out I’ve been doing these innovation updates for 10 years this month so though it would be interesting to dig out the very first one. Sure, the links don’t work any more (literally, you can’t...
Jaffadil
I’m sure you’ve noticed there are no images of daffodils mixed with Jaffa Cakes on the internet. There is now. Hopefully Googling “Jaffadil” will now return a result. That’s all.
Embedding a USDZ file in WordPress
Just seen the new iOS “Quick Look 3D” feature in iOS 12 and wanted to see how easy it was to embed an AR file in WordPress. It turns out this is really easy! Ok, it only works on iOS but Android and MacOS...
My favourite OOH example of 2018 so far?
Dino Burbidge, director of technology and innovation, WCRS Musicbed: targeted out-of-home campaign The innovation and technology pouring into the OOH industry is making almost anything possible, but have you noticed...
Welcome…
Thanks for stopping by. Hopefully something will be useful but you may see some holes / incomplete posts lower down. This is due to a “catastrophic server failure” on behalf of my old hosting company...
I’m speaking at Reasons.to 2018
Creative? Smart? Curious? Still faffing about whether to go to the @reasonsto festival in Brighton in a few weeks? Turns out I’m a speaker now, sooooo that’s a YES! DOI IT! Friday, 12:00 is my session...
Campaign Masterclass – DOOH secret sauce!
I’ve been lucky enough to be part of some amazing digital billboard ads including the Cannes gold-winning “Look at me” for Women’s Aid and, this year, “#tankfree” for the Born Free...
Judging The Drum Creative OOH Awards!
If you’ve not got your entries in yet… what the heck are you playing at! Get that sorted as I’ll be judging them soon! Yep, along with some properly impressive big-wigs from both client, media and...
The problem with being over 45 in advertising…
This article was written in July 2018. The world has changed and thankfully, the "50 over 50" conversation has started to take place. Even Forbes have taken these thoughts onboard - read the last line of this article to...
Born Free – #TankFree
Earlier today, international wildlife charity The Born Free Foundation marks World Orca Day with an integrated campaign we created, having won Ocean Outdoor’s annual digital creative competition. The campaign sees Ocean...
Diagnosing Dell OptiPlex touchscreen problem
Slightly strange but logical one. We recently used a Dell E2014T 20 inch E-Series Touchscreen on a job. Worked fine until we got it on site and then the screen’s touch accuracy went haywire. On-screen buttons...