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13th August 2008

Eee… It’s grim up North…

I nearly choked on my Cornflakes this morning while pondering online news (finger on the pulse): 'Northern Cities are beyond revival'. Centre-right thinktank Policy Exchange has declared that cities such as Liverpool and Bradford are beyond hope. Their economic raison d'etre having evaporated, the populace should up-sticks and head for the Southeast.

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11th August 2008

Baking is the new Black

We at EML are rather touched to see that those two Northern cooks the Hairy Bikers have been so impressed with our baking skills that

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8th August 2008

Weekly Links – 08/08/08

This week’s round-up of interesting blog posts, articles, announcements and more: Diageo fails to effectively deal with fall-out over a fake Guinness viral video –

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7th August 2008

Welcome to the BBCNN 24 hour “news” channel

We have a guest blog from EML’s Client Services Director, David Marsden today: As I sat in an airport bar the day before yesterday, BBC

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6th August 2008

Journo-listing

It’s all happening at the minute. Check out the journo-listing page for a dozen updates on what our journalist friends are up to!

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5th August 2008

Upwardly mobile?

Whilst I was off sunning my self on the top of a mountain in France last week, Ofcom released a draft proposed regulation to allow

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4th August 2008

A face-off

Those of you who regularly visit this blog will know my continuing fascination with the inappropriateness of information placed on Facebook, Bebo et al. Well,

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1st August 2008

Weekly Links – 01/08/08

This week’s round-up of interesting blog posts, articles, announcements and more: What Travolution is going to do with press releases – Interesting move by Travolution

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25th July 2008

Farewell IT Week

So, that’s it. As predicted last week, IT Week is to cease publication and merge with Computing with the Computing website handling breaking news and

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24th July 2008

Creative opportunism or pathetic stunt?

It’s not often I get my blogging inspiration from the back page of the Sun but today is an exception. There I was munching down

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23rd July 2008

Hitting the road, with EML

This week we’re talking to EML’s press tour king, Ben Smith. Since joining EML, Ben has been involved in more press tours than you could

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21st July 2008

Dump those capital letters – NOW!

Reading Matthew Parris in The Times on Saturday brought succour to my frustration over capitalisation in press releases headlines. Apparently even the UK Government has

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