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10th July 2009

UK becoming a broadband laughing stock

I was reading this week’s editorial in Electronics Weekly, (“UK heading for broadband slow lane“), about the UK heading for the broadband slow lane, and

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3rd July 2009

Not the end

There’s been much muttering this week about the creeping commercialism of Twitter with the followers-for-hire and other hash-tag games, played by mean and heartless corporate

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3rd July 2009

In yesterday’s Metro…

‘Girl gang ‘kills’ miget wrestlers’ ‘Authorities say two midget wrestlers found dead in a hotel in Mexico City may have been fatally drugged by a

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1st July 2009

So, Michael Jackon is dead…

So, Michael Jackson is dead. Forgive me for reacting to Darren’s blog post so late. I have an excuse. I was at Glastonbury festival when

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1st July 2009

The race to provide local news

We all know that newspaper organisations are generally in a bad state at the moment, especially in print form. It seems that the business model

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30th June 2009

Want to be a thought-leader? Blog!

A slightly dubious, non-scientific investigation by a US PR firm has revealed that CEOs are not particularly active on social networks. The thrust of the

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26th June 2009

Nothing new to report – says every major news outlet

This image was doing the rounds on Twitter earlier (courtesy of Pictures for sad children ) and I think sums up the media coverage of

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24th June 2009

Habitat: a good response to social stupidity

It is sure to go down as one of the social media case studies, taking pride of place alongside Dominos, Motrin and DellHell. I am,

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24th June 2009

PR Crisis Brewing for Fitness First?

At 10am this morning, freelancer writer Daphna Baram published a shocking real-life account on the Guardian website about a recent heart attack she had. The

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19th June 2009

Cheers Clive!

I’ll be sad to see Personal Computer World stop publishing, it’s the end of an era and makes me feel very old.  I started work

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15th June 2009

Low-tech for hi-tech

Has Google’s Street View come to a road near you? Did you think that you would be exempt from the intrusion because you lived in

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12th June 2009

Moving on…

So the recession’s over this week and everything’s better. If only it were that simple. I’ve certainly heard more positives than negatives in the last

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