Nick Davies recently gave a talk at the London offices of Google, presumably before the News of The World story gained new legs; talking about Wikileaks. Conventional journalism is needed to interpret ‘data journalism’ and conventional journalism in the west is broken from media stories about the Y2K or millennium bug through to Iraq’s alleged [...]
I came out of the tube at Tottenham Court Road station I was handed the brochure below. I couldn’t work out if it was a legitimate business (though why would you go into a business against the likes of Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U?), or someone doing it from home as a kind of ‘under the [...]
What do you love? – interesting marketing idea by Google; very similar to Addict-o-matic Did Microsoft steal the Kinect? – Hack a Day – or is it like the light bulb which had about 8 inventors at the same time Facebook and Brands in the EU | Ketchum Blog Millennial: Android tops mobile OS usage [...]
Stuart Bruce pointed me in the direction of the sorry advertisement from News International signed by Rupert Murdoch. There are a number of things interesting about this: It’s from Rupert rather than James Murdoch. Rupert seems to have inserted himself to draw some of the potential ire from James – who is tipped as a [...]
I was talking to a number of PRs a little while ago and found out in advance of my presentation that the few growth areas in printed periodicals were Indian newspapers and airline inflight magazines. However with Cathay Pacific’s The Club magazine appearing on the iPad it looks like the future of printed periodicals dimmed [...]
Paul Allen was the technical foil to Bill Gates’ when he founded Microsoft. Much of the Microsoft story is the story of Bill Gates – partly due to the way the company’s PR machine built Gates up as a software superman. The wheels came off the wagon with the Judge Jackson trial video testimonial. Allen [...]
Twitter’s Bad Idea | Forrester Blogs Afternoon Tea – Japanese tourists love it apparently Motorola has crested Android wave says Citigroup – Rethink Wireless – handset manufacturers get hollowed out by commoditisation by Android Moody’s downgrades Ireland debt to junk status ‹ Japan Today – sovereign default inevitable? Brands Bring Tryvertising Fashion to Photo Booths [...]
I got into the AA’s annual student exhibition before it closed and took a number of pictures. In terms of presentations, this year seemed to have less models and more digital displays showing 3D renderings, gaming style environments and images as a slideshow meant that it felt much less photogenic.
Nokia are apparently looking at a brand re-positioning to presumably aid in the consumer acceptance of its future Windows handsets. I hope that it’s better than its product placement in the Transformers 3 film. In the meantime, the company seems to be trying to shore up it’s declining sales of Symbian handsets with offers like [...]
That’s just the way the Irish cookie crumbles – iCrossing The Network is Next – Internet Traffic to Quadruple by 2015 [Infographic] | SiliconANGLE How and when to jump on the mobile app bandwagon – Empowered Hunt asks regulators to reconsider News Corp/Sky deal – Media news – Media Week – interesting that media plurality [...]
Hong Kong-based former Nokia executive Tomi Ahonen is one of the world’s experts on all things wireless related. He usually has thoughtful opinionated insight, here is a recent keynote by him Check out his blog for some interesting reading material around Nokia, Microsoft and the mobile space.
I, Cringely » All My Children a killer app? – soap operas as killer online video app? Experiential Rights – blackrimglasses.com MediaShift . UK Phone-Hacking Scandal Shows Clash of Privacy with Need to Know | PBS Five things you need to know about that search for the ‘global consumer’ – Campaign Asia-Pacific Album sales up [...]
I was getting ready to give my presentation at the CIPR the other evening when the news broke on Twitter about the News of The World. There was a sense (which I personally believe to be wrong) that this was going to result in a revolution that would: Take down News Corporation Radically change the [...]
What’s The Deal With Facebook’s Ad Prices? – norming to Google prices by the looks of it Watches Are Rediscovered by the Cellphone Generation – NYTimes.com – funny I saw this with Japanese job hunters who wanted to convey that they were punctual On Spotify – blackrimglasses.com Communities Dominate Brands: Wanna Be Nokia CEO? Take [...]
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